South Florida's first enclosed mall opened in 1964, occupying a 40 acre parcel 1.5 miles west of downtown Hollywood. Known as the Hollywood Mall, it was a fixture of my childhood...we took photos with Santa there, got our school shoes at Thom McAnn, went to see 25-cent movies at the Florida Theater, and, as a special treat, ate at the lunch counter in the Walgreens drug store. It was very 60s-chic, with fabulous brown and gold river-rock panels on the walls, terrazzo floors and orb-y light fixtures hanging from the ceiling. A large Sears served as Hollywood Mall's only anchor department store, and the shopping center also included a Publix supermarket, Cheryl's Cards and Gifts, Posture Form Children's Shoes, Lani Kay ladies' apparel, Mister Donut, and the Hollywood Mall Beauty Salon - THE place in town for the latest-style Fedora hairdo. I spent countless days in the mall as a kid (often unaccompanied by an adult), and when the Sears store became notorious as the site of the 1981 kidnapping and murder of Adam Walsh, it freaked out all of us who grew up patronizing the place. "THAT could have been me!" we all thought.