Sounds like our visits to the May Company in Los Angeles during the 1950s. We would get dressed up in coats and ties and spend the day there shopping. If we were there into the evening, we would often eat at the Italian Kitchen, a restaurant located across the street, before getting on the Santa Ana Freeway to head home.
yup, it was a different time... that Sears moved out of the city and became one of the anchor stores at the Mall that i haven't been to in thirty years accept for a hand full of movies
drove by there couple weekends ago and the whole place looked like a ghost town