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In 1947, Bernard Field and Hyman Fink opened the Akron Army & Navy Stores on Sunset Blvd. between Virgil Place and Fountain Avenue by selling mostly army surplus goods. Their first newspaper ad appeared in the October 31, 1947, issue of the Hollywood Citizen-News, and their first magazine ad was seen in the classified ad section of the December 1948 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine for 2 ...
The Famous Department Store (not to be confused with the "Famous Clothing Store", precursor to Famous-Barr and the May Department Stores Co.) was a department store in Los Angeles, California. Famous had its origins with the Cal Hirsch & Sons Mercantile Co., founded in 1860 or 1871 depending on the source, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which ran Army and Navy ...
C&R Clothiers was a large chain of men's suit and furnishings stores based in Culver City, California. As of 1990 it had 67 stores across California. [ 1 ] The chain dates back to 1948.
The store advertised as "Ville de Paris–B. H. Dyer Co." from 1919 through 1927, then simply as B. H. Dyas. The Downtown store and with it, the B. H. Dyas name, closed around 1930. The Seventh and Olive building is now occupied by the Los Angeles Jewelry Mart, a constituent of what is now the Jewelry District, part of the Historic Core ...
As Los Angeles continued to grow, so did Robinson's business and in 1914 it announced its construction of a new $1,000,000, (~$22.5 million in 2023) seven-story flagship store with over nine acres (400,000 square feet (37,000 m 2)) of floor space, along the south side of West Seventh Street stretching alone the complete block between Grand and ...
Bullock's was a chain of full-line department stores from 1907 through 1995, headquartered in Los Angeles, growing to operate across California, Arizona and Nevada.Bullock's also operated as many as seven more upscale Bullocks Wilshire specialty department stores across Southern California.
An improved version of the rifle used a coil spring wrapped around the firing pin and a safety and a cocking piece attached to the rear of the firing pin. [13] [14] This rifle was shown to the Prussian government, and after some design changes to the safety, was accepted for service as the Infantry Rifle Model 71 on 14 February 1872. [13]
Advertisement for Desmond's new hat shop in the Los Angeles Daily News in November 1869 Former Desmond's Miracle Mile store on Wilshire Blvd. Desmond's Westwood store in 1925. Desmond's was a Los Angeles–based department store, during its existence second only to Harris & Frank as the oldest Los Angeles retail chain, founded in the 1860s as a ...