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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 ...
You can sell or trade in men’s and women’s clothes at any of its more than 100 locations nationwide. Sellers either get 25-35% of the item’s price in cash or around 50% of the item’s value ...
Defunct department stores based in the Westside, Los Angeles (3 P) Pages in category "Defunct department stores based in Greater Los Angeles" This category contains only the following page.
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]
The chain began as Gingiss Brothers in 1936, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. [1] By 1967, the chain had grown to a total of 13 stores. [2] By this time, the chain had begun advertising as simply "gingiss" [3] In August 1968, the chain, which at this point had 15 stores in and around Chicago, announced that it planned to have 101 franchised stores operating throughout the country within 19 ...
The identification of a "garment district" is relatively new in Los Angeles' history as a large city. In 1972 the Los Angeles Times defined the L.A. Garment District as being along Los Angeles Street from 3rd to 11th Street, an area that today straddles the border of Skid Row and the very northwest end of the current Fashion District. At the ...
Silverwoods, originally promoted as F. B. Silverwood, after its founder, was a men's clothing store chain founded in Los Angeles in 1894 by Francis Bernard (F.B. "Daddy") Silverwood, a Canadian-American originally from near Lindsay, Ontario. He was a colorful character covered in the newspapers, a "songster" composer of popular songs, Shriner ...
in Central Los Angeles: Downtown Los Angeles, flagship store at 518 West Seventh Street, opened March 1936, claimed to be the largest shoe store in the Western United States [5] Beverly Hills, 9670 Wilshire Boulevard, opened 1954 [6] Hollywood - 2 Hollywood Boulevard locations; Miracle Mile - 5480 Wilshire Boulevard, [7] closed in 1970s.