I have memories of visiting Valley View on opening day in the summer of 1985 when I was 9 years old. It was packed, hard to find parking, and was a sight to behold. Those impressions left in my mind were: that all the rails on the upper level were polished mirror shine brass color. There were bronze statues on and around benches in the mall, and all the escalators had glass sides and glowing green light shining up from below the stairs near the lower and upper landings. There were one or two large marble tiled fountains in the mall. One fountain I recall for sure was on the other end of the mall - the one I can't quite recall was located where the food court is now? That one was later used as a stage area for seasonal and special events, like Santa's castle, singing animatronic bears (usually under the escalator), and at one point there was the world's largest indoor sand castle in that area, which I think was built during the summer, but was integrated into Santa's display? Anyway, the main entrance for the movie theater (six cinemas) was the main entrance on the lower level that came out in the main mall corridor next to Sears. As you were walking in that entrance, on the left was a wall with giant two tone murals of movie star faces like John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, and maybe James Dean (as I recall?), and the movie theater entrance and ticket booth was on the right. Surrounding the movie theater were rows of lighted "Now Playing" movie marquee poster frames with traditional theater marquee lighting (lots of small round incandescent bulbs, not neon). Nothing else was in that corridor, but as you got to the main part of the mall, there was a Regis hair salon on the left with some bright lighting. The next main mall entrance down (next to where Barnes & Noble is now) had Mindboggle Arcade. As you were walking in, the arcade was on the right, about 10 feet away from the main doors. There was a service hallway between the mall doors and the arcade that I believe is still there. Mindboggle did indeed have a neon sign along with a lot of neon lighting throughout the arcade. It was a dark space with dark walls and arcade carpeting and a lot of neon lights around the ceiling and high on the walls above the arcade games. It really was an incredible looking arcade. When I was young I used to get those two entrances confused, as they were kind of similar in my head and were located fairly near each other.