COUNTRY CLUB MALL: IDAHO FALLS, ID
Josh Radford's Commentary:
(User submitted August 2006)
The Country Club Mall was built in 1970-1971, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. At the time, it was the state of the art shopping center in the area.
Before the mall was actually built, the mall site contained Sears (A standalone store. When the mall was built, Sears had a mall enterance.) Along with a field of weeds and waste from a local sugar factory. This field also played host to circuses and carnivals. On this site, Tempo Store (hardware store? in the former Earnst Building), Safeway Store (grocery store), The Bank of Idaho, and a few other stores connected to the Tempo building also dotted the lot.
As time went on and the Yellowstone Mall became out dated, it was apparent that a new "larger" mall was needed.
When the mall was completed in March, 1971, the Country Club Mall contained 183,000 square feet and accomidated over 40 stores (including other stores in stand alone buildings on site and out parcles.) The mall also included an attached 4 plex movie theater.
Sadly in the early 90's due to the opening of the Grand Teton Mall in the mid 80s, the mall was pretty much empty with exception of Payless Drug, Lamonts, Earnst, The Bank of Idaho, and a few other businesses that occupied some of the out parcel buildings (Sears had moved to the Grand Teton Mall). The theater also later shut down due to the opening of Edwards 14 Cinemas. The mall was eventually raised in 1997 (with exception to the out parcels, the theaters which were still open at the time of demolision, and the building that housed what used to be the tempo store later Earnst building supply and most recently Pay-Less Drug/Office Max) to make room for a Fred Meyers Super Center (like a Wal-Mart Super Center). Fred Meyers, which was one of two anchors at the Yellowstone Mall, built what was at the time the largest single retail center in Idaho Falls.
Memories
Back before the mall was shut down, I remember a few stores such as a pet store with a gold fish pond in it, Payless Drug (which first opened as Skaggs), a weird restaruant that had a "hellish theme" with devil pitch forks for chairs, Kinny Shoes, and once in a while in one of the empty stores, they'd have a model train group set up their layouts for the public to see. I also remember the mall's attempt at "sprucing up" the out side by painting weird orange and brown swirls around the top of the building.
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