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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).
Shop exterior, 2019 The store was founded in 2005 by Josh Spencer, the first incarnation being inside a Downtown Los Angeles loft. While here, the store sold books and other items online, then, in December 2009, it opened a bookstore at 4th and Main Street .
Blackstone's Department Store was not listed in the National Register of Historic Places's Broadway Theater and Commercial District when it was first created in 1979, [8] but it was included when the district was expanded in 2002. [2] Additionally, the building was listed as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #765 in 2003. [1]
Norton Building, also known as Zukors [2] and H. Jeyne Company Building, [3] is a historic six story building located at 601-605 S. Broadway and 312 W. 6th Street in the Jewelry District and Broadway Theater District in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles.
Upscale shopping had moved west to the Seventh & Hope area starting in the 1920s, and to Mid-Wilshire by the 1930s. When consumers lived and worked near the prolific streetcar lines, it was relatively easy for them to reach downtown, the hub of both the Los Angeles Railway and Pacific Electric systems. Now, an ever increasing number of ...
The FIDM Museum & Library, Inc. was founded in 1978 to serve the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) and the community. Since January 1999, the museum's operations have been separate from the Library in order to offer more specialized care and attention to the specific needs of a costume collection, and museum-trained personnel have been added to the staff.
Downtown Los Angeles's Woolworth's building is made of reinforced concrete in a steel frame and has a Zigzag Moderne facade. [6] It is 60 feet (18 m) by 170 feet (52 m) feet in size. [ 2 ] Inside, the building features two grand terrazzo -covered staircases that connect the ground floor to the basement.
The Wholesale District lies across the middle of this 2009 photograph, above the Los Angeles River and below Downtown Los Angeles. The Wholesale District or Warehouse District in Downtown Los Angeles, California, has no exact boundaries, but at present it lies along the BNSF and Union Pacific Railroad lines, which run parallel with Alameda Street and the Los Angeles River. [1]