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Los Angeles metro area: Beverly Hills: Beverly Hills Main store 9600 Wilshire Blvd. Men's Store 101-119 S. Bedford Dr. 265,000 sq ft (24,600 m 2) Apr 25, 1938 [22] open 1938 building: The first building at 9600 Wilshire Boulevard had 3 floors, each of either 50x132 ft [30] or 60x180 feet [31] according to different
I Magnin. I. Magnin & Company was a San Francisco, California-based high fashion and specialty goods luxury department store. Over the course of its existence, it expanded across the West into Southern California and the adjoining states of Arizona, Oregon, and Washington. In the 1970s, under Federated Department Stores ownership, the chain ...
It was founded by 800 U.S. Post Office employees who wanted to leverage their buying power by purchasing goods directly from wholesalers, and eliminate the additional markup of a retail store. The Board of Directors, headed by Robert Kee, established the first store on Slauson Avenue in Los Angeles. Members would come into the store and find ...
The Broadway was a mid-level department store chain headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1896 by English-born Arthur Letts Sr., and named after what was once the city's main shopping street, [ 1] the Broadway became a dominant retailer in Southern California and the Southwest.
Manteca – Lard City. Marysville – Gateway to the Gold Fields [ 63] McCloud – Blackberry Capital of the World [ 16][ 21][ 8] Mendota – Cantaloupe Center of the World [ 64] Merced. Gateway to Yosemite [ 65] The Fountain City [ 66] Milpitas – Crossroads of Silicon Valley [ 67] Modesto.
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 ...
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) [59] May Company-Lakewood was the largest suburban department store in the world. [60]
Of the 58 counties in California, 14 are governed under a charter. They are Alameda, Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Tehama. [ 6] Nine counties in California are named for saints, tied with Louisiana for the largest number.