The Kroger-Krambo chain opened a supermarket, at a newly-expanded VILLAGE CENTER, in November 1958.
Drawing from the Kroger Company


With Krambo's completion, VILLAGE CENTER was configured as shown above. A new east store block (in gray) added over 40,000 leasable square feet to the shopping hub. The original 1930s-vintage buildings are still intact at this time, but the first in a series of structure-altering renovations will soon be underway.

GREENDALE CENTER TENANTS 1959:

KRAMBO FOODS supermarket / Ace Electric Supply / Auto Repair & Gas Station / Badger Paint & Wallpaper / Des Jardins' Drug Store / Drew's Variety Store / Estelle's Sausage Shop / Grebe's Bakery / Greendale Bank / Greendale Beer & Liquor / Greendale Grill / Greendale Theater (single screen) / Kunda Jewelers / Spic-Span Laundry & Dry Cleaning / US Post Office / Viele Drugs (with luncheonette) / Village Barber Shop / Village Beauty Shop / Village Inn / Village Men's & Boys Shop


In a view from May 1969, we see the recently-refurbished strip center. The Theatre Building has been extended outward and Village Inn (on the north end) expanded. The covered walkway seen here now extended along most of the shopping hub's Broad Street frontage.
Photo from htttp://openlibrary.artstor.org / Fine Arts Library, Cornell University / John William Reps