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La Palmera opened on July 30, 1970, as Padre Staples Mall and the largest retail shopping mall in the Corpus Christi, Texas area. Original stores included Bealls, Bill’s Shoes, Journeys, Luby’s Cafeteria, Orange Julius, Texas State Optical, and Waldenbooks. One of the original restaurants was a Chick fil A, the first to open in the state of ...
Wallbangers relocated to Corpus Christi's Southside in April 2023 after being at the Carmel Village shopping center for 39 years. Owner Joe Gaitan told the Caller-Times in 2022 that it was "time ...
The mall's escalators were shut down, leaving only a few elevators and staircases to help people to the second floor. The upstairs food court had been reduced to one open restaurant. Among the major attractions that remained were Burlington, arcade, mini-golf, two gyms, and bridal stores. At Christmas time, Santa came to the mall's center.
The original three major stores at Parkdale Plaza were JCPenney, Whites Stores, and H-E-B. Other major tenants included Western Auto, Piccadilly Cafeterias, Larry Robinson (a Corpus Christi photography studio), and the Toy House, as well as Neisner's five and dime. When H-E-B moved, Texas Gold Stamp center also owned by H-E-B took its place as ...
Alamo Drafthouse: 7601 S. Staples St. — Showtimes start around 3:45 p.m. Bill Miller Bar-B-Q: 7 to 11 a.m. (breakfast tacos only) Burger King: Normal hours (certain locations)
In 1986, Brad Lomax, creator of Water Street Market, opened Otra Vez, a Mexican restaurant, in downtown Corpus Christi. Unfortunately, the city was not ready for it and it shut down nine months later.
Dan Kilgore, Nueces County, Texas, 1750–1800: A Bicentennial Memoir (Corpus Christi: Friends of the Corpus Christi Museum, 1975) Bill Walraven, Corpus Christi: The History of a Texas Seaport (Woodland Hills, California, 1982) Eugenia Reynolds Briscoe, City by the Sea: A History of Corpus Christi, Texas, 1519–1875 (New York: Vantage, 1985)
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