The Pruneyard Shopping Center is a 250,000 sq ft (23,000 m) open-air shopping center located in Campbell, California , at the intersection of Campbell Avenue and Bascom Avenue, just east of State Route 17 . It was built in the 1960s as the PruneYard Shopping Center . It includes shops, a DoubleTree by Hilton inn, a movie theater originally built in 1964, and three office towers built in 1970, one of which is the tallest building in the area outside of downtown San Jose .
6-529: Fred Sahadi developed the PruneYard Shopping Center as part of a mixed-use development on the site of the Brynteson Ranch, which he bought in 1968. It was completed in 1970, designed to be an upscale shopping center. In 2014 Ellis Partners and Fortress Investment Group LLC bought it from Equity Office. A major renovation and expansion began in 2017. The movie theater, the first business to open in
12-684: The concept from another restaurant, Perry's, which opened several months earlier and was made famous as a singles "meet market" by Armistead Maupin 's novel, Tales of the City . Hobday closed the establishment in 1986, and opened up Eddie Rickenbackers, another eclectic bar, the next year. Typical drinks served included wine spritzers , lemon drop martinis, frozen daiquirís , Harvey Wallbangers , and piña coladas . Franchises sometimes labeled "fern bars" include T.G.I. Friday's, Bennigan's , and Houlihan's . Fern bars were gathering places for well-dressed "upscale" young men and women, initially during
18-584: The late 1970s, the mall was involved in a free speech dispute with local high school students that was ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 9, 1980. The Pruneyard case established two important rules in American constitutional law : Fern bar Fern bar is an American slang term for an upscale or preppy (or yuppie ) bar or tavern catering to singles, usually decorated with ferns or other greenery, as well as such decor as fake Tiffany lamps . The phrase came into common regional usage in
24-534: The late 1970s. One of the first fern bars was the original T.G.I. Friday's on the corner of 63rd Street and First Avenue in a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of New York City, where many young single adults lived at the time. The founder, Alan Stillman, borrowed several thousand dollars from his mother, leased a saloon and remodeled it, converting the ambience to one that he thought might be attractive to young single women. The bar opened on March 15, 1965 and
30-627: The mall in 1969 as the three-screen United Artists Movie Theater, was renovated at the turn of the 21st century and became Camera 7; it closed in April 2017 and reopened in April 2018 as the Pruneyard Cinemas, with cocktails delivered to patrons' seats and the Cedar Room restaurant in the former location of Boswell's, a 1970s fern bar . The Pruneyard was bought by Regency Centers in 2019. There are plans to add another office building and more retail. In
36-579: Was soon copied by other restaurants in the neighborhood. Another early fern bar, also thought to be the original birthplace of the Lemon Drop martini, was Henry Africa's in San Francisco, California . The bar opened in 1969 at Broadway and Polk Streets by out-of-work veteran Norman Hobday, who by his own account "took the opium-den atmosphere out of the saloons" in favor of "antique lamps and Grandma's living-room furniture." By some accounts Hobday copied
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