In 1987, Cobb Center was renovated again for it's 25th anniversary with work completed in early 1988. The bakery was located on the sealed off north entrance. Here are the northeast and north entrances along the one story addition. The enclosed mall was not hugely successful after Cumberland opened, but maintained a modest amount of A-list tenants throughout the 70's and 80's. Kessler's was a downtown Atlanta store close to Rich's, and this was the only mall anchor they ever had. Grant's liquidated in 1976, Kessler's would replace that location. Grant, would also replace Saul's with a new store at the mall where Saul's had been previously. The original Japanese water garden, however, remained outside surrounded by windows. The enclosure and renovation was completed on Novemincluding a "wonderfall". When Cumberland opened in 1973, the mall rushed out to enclose the mall. The early 1970's were the beginning of trouble for Cobb Center. The first photo was from November 2003 before it closed and the second was from early 2004. The store was built too small for the sheer demand, and was expanded on a one-story addition to the right not long after it was built. Looking at the front of the grand Rich's store. The problem was, this was the undoing of long-established retail in downtown Marietta. For the first time, shoppers on the fast-growing northern suburbs were offered an option besides downtown Atlanta or Lenox for better shopping. It was the first mall in the suburbs outside of Atlanta proper. From the amount of ads in that era, the opening of this mall was a very big deal. Most of the original tenants were originally stores found in downtown Marietta and not chain stores.
Davis House Restaurant, later Davis Brothers Cafeteria, would open soon after fronting the mall adjacent to Rich's. It had upon opening about 50 planned shops in it, opening with about 35 stores including anchors Woolworth's, Saul's department store and a Colonial Stores supermarket. What I do know about Cobb Center aside from its opening on Augis that it was originally an open-air mall built around the Rich's.
The pharmacy in the background is very curious: I never remember one at Rich's The escalators seemed to disappear into the wall going up. Drawing from grand opening ad showing the base of one of the escalators.
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