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Fifth Street Store: Walker's (Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego), main store in downtown Los Angeles was also known as the Fifth Street Store since it was located at the corner of Fifth and Broadway, main store was founded in 1905 as Steele, Faris, Walker Co., later became Muse, Faris, Walker Co., and then finally Walker Inc. in 1924; opened ...
In 1906 the first "W. T. Grant Co. 25 Cent Store" (equal to $8.48 today) opened in Lynn, Massachusetts.Modest profit, coupled with a fast turnover of inventory, caused the stores to grow to almost $100 million (~$1.73 billion in 2023) annual sales by 1936, the same year that William Thomas Grant started the W. T. Grant Foundation.
Locations of the Adry-Mart–run chain included Canoga Park, Lakewood, Torrance, Van Nuys, Ventura, at 5575 Wilshire Blvd. in the Miracle Mile, and 11201 W. Pico in West Los Angeles. [8] The Adry-Mart–run chain closed 5 of its 10 stores in mid-1996, citing competition from the Good Guys and Circuit City, and shut down the remainder in the ...
At its peak, the store had locations in both New York City and Los Angeles. In addition, the firm invented the big box concept where all non-clothing lines were leased by other retailers. [citation needed] Rogers Peet – New York City based men's clothing retailer established in late 1874. Among the chain's innovations: Rogers Peet showed ...
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 ...
Fedco had several locations in Southern California including: Van Nuys (Los Angeles), 14920 Raymer Street, store #1, replaced by Target (1956-1999) [7] La Cienega (Los Angeles), 3535 South La Cienega Boulevard, store #2, replaced by Target (1961-1999) [8] San Bernardino, 570 South Mt. Vernon Avenue, store #3 replaced by El Super (1968-1999) [9]
Federated Group was started by Wilfred Schwartz in 1970 when he bought a 25,000-square-foot warehouse in Los Angeles from an electronics company and turned part of it into a retail store. [4] In 1976, Federated Group closed two stores and built a 20,000-square-foot "superstore" in Westminster, California . [ 5 ]
From 1952 to 1992 May opened stores across suburban Los Angeles and Southern California (see table below). May Company-Lakewood opened at Lakewood Center on February 18, 1952, the four-level, 346,700-square-foot (32,210 m 2 ) [ 49 ] May Company-Lakewood was the largest suburban department store in the world.