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Tandy Corporation was an American family-owned leather -goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Tandy Leather was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store. By the end of the 1950s, under the tutelage of then-CEO Charles Tandy, the company expanded into the hobby market, making leather moccasins and coin purses, making huge ...
Multiple. Includes Olvera Street, Avila Adobe, Chinese American Museum, Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, Plaza Firehouse Museum, Sepulveda House, changing exhibits in El Pueblo Gallery, Pico House, Hellman/Quon building. Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Museum. Downtown.
March 4, 1975. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest natural and historical museum in the western United States. [ 3 ] Its collections include nearly 35 million specimens and artifacts and cover 4.5 billion years of history.
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, [ a] is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington in San Marino, California. In addition to the library, the institution houses an extensive art collection with a focus on 18th and 19th ...
By 1961, Tandy Leather was operating 125 stores in 105 cities of the United States and Canada and the company name was changed to Tandy Corporation. [6] In 1963, Tandy Corporation acquired management control of the Radio Shack Corporation and, after two years, Charles Tandy had turned the company's $4 million loss into a profit. During that ...
Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District ( ID85000704) Designated CP. April 4, 1985. The S. H. Kress and Co. Building, also known as S. H. Kress or The Kress, is a historic five-floor building at 6608 W. Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, California. It is known primarily for its architecture and its almost six decades as the ...
The Brockman Building is a 12-story Classical and Romanesque Revival building located in Downtown Los Angeles. Built in 1912, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It is currently home to an 80 unit condo complex on the top 11 floors, and the restaurant Bottega Louie sits on the 1st floor.
Heritage Square Museum is a living history and open-air architecture museum located beside the Arroyo Seco Parkway in the Montecito Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in the southern Arroyo Seco area. The living history museum shows the story of development in Southern California through historical architectural examples.