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Originally Posted by Armybrat
Remember that one too.
And there was another discount department store on Airport prior to the construction of Highland Mall in the early 1970s. Don’t recall its name though.
I was on the faculty at Webb Jr. High when Highland Mall was built. When it opened, a few students would cut class to hang out there for hours.
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If I remember correctly it was called "Sage Department Store." When it opened in the late 60's a membership was required before you could shop (like Costco) and the idea of helping to pay for building the building really pissed off my dad. Once the note was paid off, the membership requirement was dropped. There might have been another Sage in south Austin I'm not sure but they were out of Houston where there were a number of locations.
Since we're talking stores a little south of what's now ACC Highland campus. There sits the Travis County Sheriff's office. Before the county took ownership, it was a site of a hardware store possibly called Builder's Square. Before it was a hardware store back in the late 60's that building was the site of Spartan Discount Department Store. Not sure when it closed but it was vacant for a number of years before the Hardware store.