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In 1966, 20,000 square feet was added to the two year-old West Los Angeles store to handle the increase of business. [26] [27] Later in the same year, a store was opened at the Northpoint Shopping Center in San Francisco. [28] According to a 1966 article in the Times, this was the first store in San Francisco and the tenth in the chain. [28]
Sketch of 1925 renovation and expansion of Swelldom at NW corner of 6th & Broadway, downtown Los Angeles. Swelldom was a large women's clothing store, variously described as a "cloak and suit house" and a "department store", that operated in California from 1906 until the 1970s.
A 1934 article in the Los Angeles Evening Post-Record showed that Blackman's grocery store, White Front Market, was located at 7710 South Central Avenue [8] and a 1940 ad in the Los Angeles Times also showed the market was still at the same address six years later. [9] At first, the small store did not sell non-food items such as small tube radios.
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 ...
Harris & Frank flagship store at 635-9 S. Hill St. in Downtown Los Angeles, opened in 1925. Harris & Frank was a clothing retailer and major chain in the history of retail in Southern California, which at its peak had around 40 stores across Southern California and in neighboring states and regions.
Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie ran as the "non-politician" who could hit reset at San Francisco City Hall. But even as a political newcomer, Lurie, scion of one of the city's elite old-money families ...
There are about 45,000 people who are homeless in the city of Los Angeles, 29,000 of whom are unsheltered, according to the most recent point-in-time count of the homeless population.
Walter P. Story Building (1909), SE corner of 6th, once home to Mullen & Bluett. In 1910 the company rented the ground floor and basement of the Walter P. Story Building at Sixth and Broadway, at a time when all the major Los Angeles department stores (May Company California, The Broadway, Fifth Street Store/Walker's, Bullock's, J. W. Robinson's, Desmond's, etc.) had been establishing ...