Slideshow: 20 Bloomington-Normal places of the past - Bloomington Pantagraph
The Jefferson Cafeteria was located on the east side of the courthouse square in Bloomington from the late 1930s until 1969. . Advertisements boasted "fine foods — deliciously prepared by seven experienced women who like to cook and prepare well... Grassfield opened the cafeteria in 1933. College Hills Mall was finished two months ahead of schedule and opened on Aug. 14, 1980, with 177,000 square feet of mall area and 75,000 square feet of public area. In the 1980s, College Hills Mall and Eastland Mall offered B-N shoppers a combined five major department stores and 117 smaller stores. From the late 1990s into the early 2000s, stores were closed throughout the mall until it went up for sale in November 2003. Cullinan Properties Ltd. purchased the property and the present-day Shoppes at College Hills opened on Aug. A "unique and exciting restaurant decorated in the era of the 1950s," the Double Nickel Drive-In opened in June 1988. Its name reflected its location on Business Loop 55. Located at Veterans Parkway and Morrissey Drive, the restaurant had two... Source: www.pantagraph.com
