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Bernini is a men's fashion company based in Beverly Hills that was popularized in the 1990s and expanded rapidly into multiple stores. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The clothing was sold out of a boutique store on Rodeo Drive before adding multiple locations there and elsewhere.
Sakowitz was a men's clothing store which grew into a small chain of family-owned high-end department stores based in Houston, Texas.It operated from 1902 until 1990. Sakowitz was responsible for launching many of the now-famous European fashion designers in America - among them Andre' Courreges, Yves St. Laurent Rive Gauche, Zandra Rhoades, Givenchy, and Erminegildo
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles is a local Jewish publication that is most noted for its interviews of Jewish celebrities and important figures in the Los Angeles Jewish community; [59] as well as its features in local Jewish culture and events as well as news coverage of events affecting the community as well as other areas of the ...
Judy's was a chain of clothing stores, based in Van Nuys, Los Angeles. Marcia Israel (Mrs. Lawrence Israel, later Marcia Israel-Curley) founded Judy's in 1946 and ran it until 1989 when she sold it to Laws International of Hong Kong for $31 million. [ 1 ]
Solomon Lazard (1827–1916), co-founder of the City of Paris department store [219] Simon Lazarus, German-born founder of the Lazarus department store (later The F&R Lazarus & Co., merged with Macy's Inc.) [220] Leon Levine, founder of the Family Dollar chain of discount stores [221] Bernard Marcus, co-founder of the Home Depot [222]
The B'nai B'rith Lodge on South Union Avenue in Westlake served as a hub for the Jewish community and later as the heart of the labor movement in L.A. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)
Silverwoods, originally promoted as F. B. Silverwood, after its founder, was a men's clothing store chain founded in Los Angeles in 1894 by Francis Bernard (F.B. "Daddy") Silverwood, a Canadian-American originally from near Lindsay, Ontario. He was a colorful character covered in the newspapers, a "songster" composer of popular songs, Shriner ...
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.