On a Friday night in 1988, the Food Garden at Hickory Hollow was noisy and full. Every table in the food court was occupied. Teenagers went back and forth between the arcade and the food counters.
The movie theater inside the complex was selling tickets for the late showing. Upstairs, department stores and other major stores stood around the mall, with tenants spread across two floors.
Families drove in from all over southeast Davidson County. People from Antioch had been coming here for years…