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This is a list of department stores and some other major retailers in the four major corridors of Downtown Los Angeles: Spring Street between Temple and Second ("heyday" from c.1884–1910); Broadway between 1st and 4th (c.1895-1915) and from 4th to 11th (c.1896-1950s); and Seventh Street between Broadway and Figueroa/Francisco, plus a block of Flower St. (c.1915 and after).
Pages in category "1980 in Los Angeles" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Fifth Street Store: Walker's (Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego), main store in downtown Los Angeles was also known as the Fifth Street Store since it was located at the corner of Fifth and Broadway, main store was founded in 1905 as Steele, Faris, Walker Co., later became Muse, Faris, Walker Co., and then finally Walker Inc. in 1924; opened ...
The first store opened in Pasadena on Colorado Boulevard at Meredith in 1930. [1] The chain had 14 stores in the Pasadena area by 1934. [2] The chain had 42 locations in 1959 including as far as Santa Ana and San Bernardino. [3] Kroger bought the chain in 1963 when Market Basket annual sales were $121 million (~$923 million in 2023). [4]
From 1952 to 1992 May opened stores across suburban Los Angeles and Southern California (see table below). May Company-Lakewood opened at Lakewood Center on February 18, 1952, the four-level, 346,700-square-foot (32,210 m 2 ) [ 49 ] May Company-Lakewood was the largest suburban department store in the world.
Chess King – sold to Merry-Go-Round in 1993; liquidated along with that chain in 1995; Christopher & Banks – bankrupted in 2021 from financial loss, because of the COVID-19 pandemic; County Seat – founded in 1973, the denim-focused mall retailer expanded in the 1980s to nearly 500 stores. It filed for bankruptcy in 1996 and shuttered ...
As Los Angeles continued to grow, so did Robinson's business and in 1914 it announced its construction of a new $1,000,000, (~$22.5 million in 2023) seven-story flagship store with over nine acres (400,000 square feet (37,000 m 2)) of floor space, along the south side of West Seventh Street stretching alone the complete block between Grand and ...
The Jem doll sold out on day two of the convention. [49] On October 5, 2012, the four (then-upcoming) dolls in Integrity Toys' new limited edition collectible line were presented with pictures: Classic Jem, Jerrica Benton, Synergy and Rio Pacheco, [ 50 ] with a suggested retail price of $119, to begin shipping in late November 2012.