This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite stores that no longer exist.
Cobb Center was a shopping mall in Smyrna, Georgia, originally opened as the Cobb County Shopping Center on August 15, 1963, making it the second mall built in Georgia. Inside they had a rare, Milton Bradley retail store! During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Milton Bradley was far more than a board game publisher,
A true American institution
Mother loved her job in the filing rooms of the Sears, Roebuck and Co. building in downtown, Atlanta. She could go on break, or after work, right downstairs to shop in the record department of the Sears store below. The building was opened in 1926 as a Sears, Roebuck and Co. retail store, warehouse, and regional office. In 1979, the retail store closed but the building continued operating as a Sears regional office until 1987. Mother worked there around 1945.
