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Currently, auctions are asking between $2 and $3 per pound for quantities of 10 to 25 pounds of coins. One auction featured 100,000 pennies -- weighing about 680 pounds -- that sold for $1,500 ...
2010. The Lincoln cent (sometimes called the Lincoln penny) is a one-cent coin that has been struck by the United States Mint since 1909. The obverse or heads side was designed by Victor David Brenner, as was the original reverse, depicting two stalks of wheat (thus "wheat pennies", struck 1909–1958). The coin has seen several reverse, or ...
The Wholesale District lies across the middle of this 2009 photograph, above the Los Angeles River and below Downtown Los Angeles. The Wholesale District or Warehouse District in Downtown Los Angeles, California, has no exact boundaries, but at present it lies along the BNSF and Union Pacific Railroad lines, which run parallel with Alameda Street and the Los Angeles River. [1]
3. 1793 Strawberry Leaf Cent — $862,500. In 2009, the Strawberry Leaf penny broke records for the most money paid for a penny at an auction, going for $862,000. The Strawberry Leaf cent is ...
The first store opened in Pasadena on Colorado Boulevard at Meredith in 1930. [1] The chain had 14 stores in the Pasadena area by 1934. [2] The chain had 42 locations in 1959 including as far as Santa Ana and San Bernardino. [3] Kroger bought the chain in 1963 when Market Basket annual sales were $121 million (~$923 million in 2023).
Fountain at Irvine Spectrum Center lifestyle center, opened 1995. Animated fountains at The Grove, opened 2002. Retail in Southern California dates back to its first dry goods store that Jonathan Temple opened in 1827 on Calle Principal (Main Street), [1] when Los Angeles was still a Mexican village.
Los Angeles Alligator Farm. The Los Angeles Alligator Farm, located next door to the Los Angeles Ostrich Farm in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, was an alligator farm and a major city tourist attraction from 1907 until 1953. [1]
Louis Mesmer's first business in 1860s Los Angeles was a bakery; he was also apparently the only local producer of matzah, “which he sold to nearly all the Jewish families of Southern California.” [28] Bread bakeries in Los Angeles include La Brea Bakery. A popular sour dough bread was widely available from Pioneer Baking in the Los Angeles ...