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In 1978, Schaeffer took $3,000 in savings and a $5,000 loan from his father and bought a 50% share of an alternative energy store Open Circle from Steve Troy in Willits, California Steve Troy and John Schaeffer then changed the name from Open Circle to Real Goods Trading Company. that sold all the "real goods" for off-grid living at fair prices.
David Charles Horowitz (June 30, 1937 – February 14, 2019) was an American consumer reporter and journalist for KNBC in Los Angeles, whose Emmy-winning TV program Fight Back! would warn viewers about defective products, test advertised claims to see if they were true, and confront corporations about customer complaints. [2]
David Lazarus has written pieces for Los Angeles Times about consumer affairs and business topics including YouTube, [4] AT&T [5] and BMW-customer service issues. [6]Before joining the LA Times staff in 2007, Lazarus worked as a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and a nightly talk radio host for San Francisco's KGO Radio. [7]
The Akron (Los Angeles), a Southern California–based "eclectic" department store chain that had specialized in carrying imported goods and unusual items such as parking meters and live Mexican monkeys, and which had stores as far north as San Francisco and far south as San Diego before it was forced to close its stores in 1985 [18] [19] [20]
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 ...
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).
Ad for Lazard and Kremer in the Los Angeles Star October 30, 1852 Ad (in Spanish) for Lazard and Kremer in the Los Angeles Star June 18, 1853 Ads for Rich and Newmark, and Lazard and Kremer in the Los Angeles Star September 21, 1854 S. Lazard & Co.'s store on Main Street between 1866 and 1872 Eugene Meyer & Co. City of Paris Ad in Los Angeles city directory 1878
Defunct department stores based in the San Fernando Valley (1 C, 1 P) Defunct department stores based in the San Gabriel Valley (5 P) Defunct department stores based in the South Bay, Los Angeles County (3 P)