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Unimart was a discount retailer in the Greater Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas in the 1960s. Its locations variously became Two Guys , Gemco , and FedMart . Unimart was owned by Food Giant Inc. until it merged in 1967 with Vornado , the owner of Two Guys , which quickly converted Unimart stores to Two Guys .
Swelldom, junior department stores for apparel, Los Angeles, 1906–1970s; Two Guys; Unimart (Los Angeles, San Diego), locations variously became Two Guys, Gemco, FedMart; was owned by Food Giant Markets Inc until it merged in 1967 with Vornado, the owner of Two Guys, which quickly converted Unimart stores to Two Guys. [127] [128]
Hamburger Hamlet (or "The Hamlet") was a chain of restaurants based in Los Angeles, and a point of reference for the inhabitants and creative industries of the city. Opened in 1950 by actor Harry Lewis with his future wife Marilyn (m.1952), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it grew to a chain of 24 locations, including the Chicago and Washington, D.C. metro areas ...
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From mid-1989 until 2012, Campanile occupied a landmark building at 624 South La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, California. Built by Charlie Chaplin in 1929, the neglected building was discovered by Silverton’s mother and bought by her father, then renovated according to the specifications of Campanile’s co-founders.
Steven Arroyo, one of L.A.'s most established restaurateurs, who predicted trends and helped shape the way the city eats, has died at 55.
How one of the best restaurants in Peoria, Illinois, became "the most infamous restaurant in the state." 40 years ago, a beloved Peoria restaurant was the source of a historic botulism outbreak ...
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 ...