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The Toy District is a 12-block area in eastern Downtown Los Angeles, bounded by Los Angeles Street on the west, Third and Fifth streets on the north and south and San Pedro Street on the east. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a multilingual, multicultural area [ 3 ] that consists of one- and two-story buildings often painted in pastel shades and is home to ...
Downtown Los Angeles's Fifth Street Store Building was designed by Alexander Curlett and built by Milliron's in 1927. In the building's early years, it was home to a department store that repeatedly changed its name, including Walker's, Fifth Street Store, Walker's Fifth Street Store, and in 1946 it changed to Milliron's. A $300,000 ($4.69 ...
Obadiah Truax Barker had owned upholstery and mattress shops in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. [1]In 1880, Barker was visiting Los Angeles on a trip from Colorado Springs to San Jose, California, when he overheard an outraged Otto Müller at a horticultural exhibition complain about the high cost of furnishing his home from the only large furniture store in the city at the time. [1]
Obadiah J. Barker, Jr. (October 31, 1856 – July 1908) was a Los Angeles businessman and the founder and president of the furniture company, Barker Brothers. Born in Bloomfield, Indiana, Barker moved with his family to Colorado Springs, Colorado as a young man.
An 1853 ad in Spanish in the bilingual Los Angeles Star for Lazard & Kremer dry goods S. Lazard & Co.'s store on Main St. between 1866 and 1872 Hamburger's, "The People's Store" Spring Street Early 1880s Stern, Cahn & Loeb's City of Paris department store at 105-7 N. Spring St. (post-1890 numbering: 205-7 Spring), sometime between 1883 and 1890 Hamburger's building (later May Co. flagship) at ...
Shindana Toys, a division of Operation Bootstrap, Inc., was a South Central Los Angeles, California cooperative toy company in business from 1968 to 1983. [1] It was launched as a black empowerment and community rejuvenation effort following the Watts riots .
As wildfires burned across Los Angeles County, burning more than 12,000 structures, many of them homes, two mothers launched a grassroots project to reunite displaced children with their beloved ...
/ The Fifth Street Store: the former being the official company name but it promoted itself simply as the "Fifth Street Store", with the official name in smaller text. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 1926–1946: Walker's : In 1925, the company name changed to Walkers, Inc and from mid-1926 the store started advertising as Walker's , Broadway at 5th.