Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of department stores and some other major retailers in the four major corridors of Downtown Los Angeles: Spring Street between Temple and Second ("heyday" from c.1884–1910); Broadway between 1st and 4th (c.1895-1915) and from 4th to 11th (c.1896-1950s); and Seventh Street between Broadway and Figueroa/Francisco, plus a block of Flower St. (c.1915 and after).
Cool-A-Coo was a vanilla ice cream sandwich made with oatmeal cookies and dipped in chocolate. It was a specialty in the Los Angeles area for over 25 years and was made fresh in Southern California. It was the original ice cream sandwich of the Los Angeles Dodgers. [1] As of August 2016, it has been discontinued and is no longer available.
Downtown Los Angeles: Brick office building built in 1905 1140: Hotel Cecil: January 28, 2017: 640 S. Main Street Downtown Los Angeles: Beaux-Arts-style hotel built in 1924 1155: F. and W. Grand Silver Store Building: February 27, 2018: 537 S. Broadway Downtown Los Angeles: Art Deco commercial structure built in 1931 1174
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.
The building sits in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles, which is rich in historic architecture, and which has largely maintained its historic integrity, due in large part to hard fought preservation efforts, [47] [48] [49] the 1999 Adaptive Re-Use Ordinance, [50] and Councilmember Jose Huizar's "Bringing Back Broadway" initiative.
Downtown Los Angeles: Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco built in 1929; designed by The Parkinsons in a Moderne style 90: Filipino Christian Church: Filipino Christian Church: January 4, 2019 : 301 N. Union Ave.
C.C. Brown's was an ice cream parlor that operated in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California from 1929 to 1996. [1] The shop claimed to have invented the hot fudge sundae [2] and became popular with celebrity clientele. Their long list of famous customers included Clark Gable, Mary Pickford, Joan Crawford, Bob Hope, Elvis Presley, and Marilyn ...
Circa 1939, the WPA-sponsored American Guide Series Los Angeles guidebook described the chain thusly: "Clifton’s Brookdale, 648 S. Broadway, and Clifton's Cafeteria of the Golden Rule, 618 S. Olive St. Organ music and singing attendants. A novel feature at both places is the bulletin board just outside the entrance, where listings are ...