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Former luxury department store; completed 1929; art deco style; noted for 241-foot (73 m) tower ... Part of Asian Americans in Los Angeles, 1850-1980 MPS 91: Fire ...
Chonk — This clothing store offers fashions that let women be "gorgeous at any size"; much to the models' clear dismay, however, the store bears an uncomplimentary name. Also featured is "Lil' Chonk" for tween girls (Mom ushers her young model out of camera range), and the menswear store "Normal Clothes", where guys can make a quick trip to ...
Guess also created a lower priced collection sold exclusively through its outlet locations, and introduced its first brand extension, the upscale female line of clothing and accessories, named Marciano. [7] Guess continued its Guess Kids clothing line in the early 21st century. In 2006, it began promoting the line through its factory retail stores.
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 ...
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 ...
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An 1853 ad in Spanish in the bilingual Los Angeles Star for Lazard & Kremer dry goods S. Lazard & Co.'s store on Main St. between 1866 and 1872 Hamburger's, "The People's Store" Spring Street Early 1880s Stern, Cahn & Loeb's City of Paris department store at 105-7 N. Spring St. (post-1890 numbering: 205-7 Spring), sometime between 1883 and 1890 Hamburger's building (later May Co. flagship) at ...
In 1947, Bernard Field and Hyman Fink opened the Akron Army & Navy Stores on Sunset Blvd. between Virgil Place and Fountain Avenue by selling mostly army surplus goods. Their first newspaper ad appeared in the October 31, 1947, issue of the Hollywood Citizen-News, and their first magazine ad was seen in the classified ad section of the December 1948 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine for 2 ...