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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).
Barker approached Müller and together they founded a furniture shop on 112–114 N. Spring Street near the Los Angeles Plaza, called Barker and Mueller. In 1880, Los Angeles was a town with a population of 11,183. Its population would increase tenfold in the next twenty years, and tenfold again, to over one million, in the 25 years after that. [1]
In the future, North Hollywood plans a $1 billion mixed-use development at Lankershim and Chandler, surrounding the Metro B and G line terminals. The project would re-develop 15.6 acres (63,000 m 2 ) with 600,000 square feet (56,000 m 2 ) of commercial space and nearly 1500 residential units in three high-rise towers.
The Germain Building, which housed the wholesale department store of Crandall, Aylsworth & Haskell at 218-224 North Los Angeles Street, was gutted and the store of the Pacific Crockery and Tinware Co. at No. 228 was "almost totally ruined" in a fierce blaze on May 28, 1898, when the fire department had to sound a general alarm, "calling every ...
Bullocks Wilshire, located at 3050 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, is a 230,000-square-foot (21,000 m 2) Art Deco building. The building opened in September 1929 as a luxury department store for owner John G. Bullock (owner of the more mainstream Bullock's in Downtown Los Angeles). [2]
Ville de Paris was a department store in Downtown Los Angeles from 1893 through 1919. A. Fusenot's Ville de Paris Los Angeles store should not be confused with the unrelated City of Paris store operating in Los Angeles through 1897 operated by Eugene Meyer & Co. , then by Stern, Cahn & Loeb ; nor with the much more famous City of Paris Dry ...
Ad for Lazard and Kremer in the Los Angeles Star October 30, 1852 Ad (in Spanish) for Lazard and Kremer in the Los Angeles Star June 18, 1853 Ads for Rich and Newmark, and Lazard and Kremer in the Los Angeles Star September 21, 1854 S. Lazard & Co.'s store on Main Street between 1866 and 1872 Eugene Meyer & Co. City of Paris Ad in Los Angeles city directory 1878
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. [50] The North Hollywood store, opened in 1955 and originally marketed as part of the Valley Plaza shopping district, was a very large at 452,000 ...