I grew up at the top of Springville, not too far from the old Tanasbourne, and both I and my younger brother went to The Learning Tree for preschool. The Learning Tree is probably why the old Tanasbourne has stuck with me, because it had two entrance doors – one adult-sized, and another child-sized, and as a four-year-old boy, I loved that. In addition to the stores already mentioned, on the ground floor there was a Miller's department store, a hobby store, and an OLCC liquor store, and on the upper floor a surprisingly good deli and a very 70s-styled bistro adjacent to the elevator (that later became the original location of the Chang's Mongolian Grill franchise that later moved further down Cornell, where I believe it remains).
I spent a lot of time there, because the Safeway was where my mother did the bulk of our family shopping pretty much up until Safeway moved across 185th. The library was small but had enough science fiction books to keep me occupied as a kid, and the movie theater was never really a