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The Toy District is a 12-block area in eastern Downtown Los Angeles, bounded by Los Angeles Street on the west, Third and Fifth streets on the north and south and San Pedro Street on the east. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a multilingual, multicultural area [ 3 ] that consists of one- and two-story buildings often painted in pastel shades and is home to ...
Side view. In December 1926, Sears, Roebuck & Company of Chicago announced that it would build a nine-story, height-limit building on East Ninth Street (later renamed Olympic Boulevard) at Soto Street to be the mail-order distribution center for the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states, to be constructed by Scofield Engineering Company.
Norton Building, also known as Zukors [2] and H. Jeyne Company Building, [3] is a historic six story building located at 601-605 S. Broadway and 312 W. 6th Street in the Jewelry District and Broadway Theater District in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles.
Flax is a group of art supply stores spread across the United States. As of January 2024, Flax family owned and operated specialty retail stores are located in San Francisco, Oakland, Orlando and Chicago. Existing Flax stores in Atlanta and Los Angeles are owned and operated by former employees of those stores.
In 1969, Allen Ruppersberg presented Al's Cafe at 1913 West Sixth Street. [8] In the mid-'70s, a handful of artists, including Joel Bass, Dan Citron, Woods Davy, Marc Kreisel, Jon Peterson, Stephen Seemayer, Maura Sheehan, Coleen Sterritt, Sydney Littenberg, Peter Zecher, and others saw opportunity in the empty buildings and began colonizing the area, converting former industrial and ...
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).
Blackstone's Department Store was not listed in the National Register of Historic Places's Broadway Theater and Commercial District when it was first created in 1979, [8] but it was included when the district was expanded in 2002. [2] Additionally, the building was listed as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #765 in 2003. [1]
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 ...