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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 ...
Shindana Toys, a division of Operation Bootstrap, Inc., was a South Central Los Angeles, California cooperative toy company in business from 1968 to 1983. [1] It was launched as a black empowerment and community rejuvenation effort following the Watts riots. [2]: 205–206 [1] [3] Company proceeds supported businesses in the Watts area.
The Care Bears characters were announced in 1982 with M.A.D., Marketing and Design Service of the toy group of General Mills, and launched in Spring 1983 with toys and a syndicated TV special. [6] Ralph Shaffer, senior vice-president and creative head at From Cleveland, oversaw the creation of Madballs, foam balls with disfigured faces. AmToy ...
Los Angeles residents can drop off donations at 672 S. Lafayette Park Place, Suite 33 in Los Angeles. Antelope Valley residents can bring their donations to 539 W. Lancaster Blvd. in Lancaster ...
An exception will be Macy’s flagship stores in Union Square in San Francisco and the Valley Fair mall in San Jose, as well as in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, where Toys R Us sections will ...
K·B Toys (also known as Kay Bee Toys) [1] was an American chain of mall-based retail toy stores.The company was founded in 1922 as Kaufman Brothers, a wholesale candy store. . The company opened a wholesale toy store in 1946, and ended its candy wholesales two years later to emphasize its toy produc
Tail o’ the Pup is an iconic Los Angeles, California hot dog stand actually shaped like a hot dog. Built in 1946, the small, walk-up stand has been noted as a prime example of "programmatic" or "mimetic" [1] novelty architecture. It was one of the last surviving mid-20th century buildings that were built in the shapes of the products they sold.
The building is part of a 12-acre (4.9 ha) complex built as Occidental Center, and now known as South Park Center. In the 1960s, 70s and 80s there was a restaurant at the top of the building—The Tower—that served award-winning French cuisine. [5]