Views of WesTown Shopping Center

1960: Parking lot under construction (left) and center newly opened (right). - Courtesy Douglas Barnett

Early 1961 - Notice the shops alongside Bayless have not yet been built , nor has the hardware store behind Ryan-Evans. Unit 2 is nearing completion.

The Valley Bank branch at bottom left has not quite opened yet; business is being conducted out of a trailer to the west of the bank building.

Photo courtesy of Steve Demory.

 

 

Aerial circa 1962

 

 

Grand opening of Unit 2, spring 1961. Courtesy of Arizona Contractor & Community magazine.

1961

1969

Courtesy Ron Heberlee

1969

Aerial - Circa 1966

"Shopping City" sign, circa 1969

"Shopping Center" sign, circa 1984

Circa 1990. Courtesy George E. Smith.

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