DR Ginny, your mention of Tri-County Mall brings back some memories. My folks had just moved from Fort Lauderdale to Cincinnati the week before Christmas 1968, and I drove down from school in Cleveland for the holidays. There was shopping to be done, so I got my introductions to Tri-County, the original Kenwood shopping center area, and of course the still glorious downtown - with real department stores, Willis Music, etc. etc. I had Cincinnati chili, probably a Perkins breakfast, and other such delights for the first time. Those visits were fun and kind of magical as they got to know the city and introduced me to it over the next few years.
Tri-County was fascinating for its size, but even though my memories are vague, I don't recall the interior as being a particularly attractive one back then. But malls were still coming into their own in those years, and as others got built, they stopped going up there so often in favor of more nearby ones like Eastgate. I do remember on a summer visit borrowing their car to drive up and see IN COLD BLOOD (must have been a second run) at a single-screen theater across the road from Tri-County.
At some point in the late '70s or early '80s they took me to a large independent store near there (maybe to the north, across I-275?) with all kinds of goods and foodstuffs from around the world, called the International something or other. Did you ever know that one? It stuck in my mind, but I never got back there.
(Oh my. And all she said was "Tri-County Mall"...)