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The mall first opened in August 1972 by Kansas City developers Frank Morgan and Sherman Dreiseszun and had many stores, including Lion Store, Montgomery Ward, and Lamson's. For a time in the late 1970s through the early 1980s, Southwyck had a section called "Old Towne". Accessible via a narrow themed walkway from the regular mall, Old Towne was a common area with cobblestone streets and at least 30 smaller retailers, plus a few novelty arcade machines and a "play tic-tac-toe with the chicken" machine. Old Towne would eventually close, and the space converted to an additional three cinema screens by AMC (the mall originally opened with a seven-plex, the world's first, according to AMC literature at the time). AMC also operated another multiplex cinemas in the mall with 8 screens. Both theaters were eventually sold by AMC to National Amusements in 1995, and later closed.
The mall closed its doors after 36 years of business on June 29, 2008 and as of June 29, 2009 the demolition of the mall was well underway.
By November 1, 2009, the Southwyck Mall was completely demolished, the last structure to be demolished being the Montgomery Ward automobile service center.
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From the Blade of June 24 2010.
BOWLING GREEN - Robert M. Uhlman, 84, who had a 44-year career with his family's department store business, died of congestive heart failure Saturday in Wood Haven Health Care Senior Living and Rehabilitation here.
In 1978, Mr. Uhlman became chairman and chief executive of the Uhlman Co., a family-owned business headquartered in Bowling Green that at one time had more than 40 stores in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana and more than 1,000 employees.
The firm traced its lineage to 1867, when Mr. Uhlman's grandfather, H.C. Uhlman, became a partner in a general store in Weston, Ohio.
Its properties included an Uhlman's store in downtown Bowling Green and a Plaza U, a women's specialty store, in the former Southwyck Shopping Center in Toledo.
Mr. Uhlman retired in 1992 and the company was sold to Roger Vail, its president and chief operating officer.
In 1996, the firm was then sold to Stage Stores, which shuttered many of the Uhlman outlets.
Mr. Uhlman began his retail career as a manager trainee in Findlay and was promoted to manager of an Uhlman outlet in Delaware, Ohio, his daughter, Melissa Uhlman, said.
He then transferred to the main office in Bowling Green and became a buyer.
He stayed busy in the 1970s, during which the company opened 12 new Plaza U stores in malls.
The new division's stores had colorful decor and offered apparel for misses and juniors.
The stores were eventually given the Uhlman name.
Mr. Uhlman's favorite part of the retail business was merchandising, according to a company newsletter.
He described this aspect of the business as "dealing with manufacturers and finding ways to make the merchandise move out the front door."
Asked what part of his job he liked least, he was at a loss for words. He laughed and said "Retailing is the greatest. I love all aspects of it."
The war year of 1944 loomed large in his young life: He enlisted in the Marine Corps and married Patty Jackson, his high school sweetheart, four days before being deployed to the Pacific.
As a Marine, rose the rank of corporal and participated in the Guam and Iwo Jima campaigns.They returned to Bowling Green in 1948.
He and his wife met at the former Roger's drug store in Bowling Green, where she worked at the soda fountain. They were happily married until her death in 2002