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The building is named after James Zera Oviatt (1888-1974) who, in 1909, came from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles to work as a window dresser at C.C. Desmond's Department Store. In 1912, Oviatt and a colleague, hat salesman Frank Baird Alexander, launched their partnership in men's clothing as the Alexander & Oviatt haberdashery, at 209 West ...
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 ...
Phelps-Terkel store is visible on the right between the Silverwoods and Mullen & Bluett stores. Phelps-Terkel was a Los Angeles based department store specializing in men's clothing. The store was founded by Richard (Dick) B. Terkel and David S. Phelps [1] in 1923. [2] Dick Terkel, a haberdasher, hailed from Wisconsin and moved to Berkeley then ...
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New York Architecture Images- Midtown (Times Square) includes postcards showing Times Square Bond Clothes sign (accessed September 16, 2008). Photograph of Forrester Building, 640 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, California (home of Bond Clothing Stores, Inc., ca. 1939 to 1973) (accessed September 16, 2008).
The devastating fires raging across much of Southern California have caused extreme damage, leveling some of Los Angeles' historic landmarks.. The fires broke out amid dry and windy conditions ...
Six major blazes around Los Angeles County have destroyed thousands of structures and forced the evacuation of at least 200,000 residents. Stunning images taken from space show the destruction ...
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