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  2. The Akron - Wikipedia

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    Akron Stores or The Akron was a Southern California–based imported goods and home decorating department store retail chain established in 1947 and was known to carry unusual merchandise, mostly imports. [1] The chain had over 24 stores throughout Southern California from San Diego to San Francisco before it was forced to close in 1985.

  3. List of defunct department stores of the United States

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    The Akron (Los Angeles), a Southern California–based "eclectic" department store chain that had specialized in carrying imported goods and unusual items such as parking meters and live Mexican monkeys, and which had stores as far north as San Francisco and far south as San Diego before it was forced to close its stores in 1985 [18] [19] [20]

  4. History of retail in Southern California - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of department stores in Downtown Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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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).

  6. Defunct department stores based in the San Fernando Valley (1 C, 1 P) Defunct department stores based in the San Gabriel Valley (5 P) Defunct department stores based in the South Bay, Los Angeles County (3 P)

  7. The Broadway - Wikipedia

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    The Broadway was a mid-level department store chain headquartered in Los Angeles, California.Founded in 1896 by English-born Arthur Letts Sr., and named after what was once the city's main shopping street, [1] the Broadway became a dominant retailer in Southern California and the Southwest.

  8. High-end wedding photographer and family shocked as ... - AOL

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    Pervez Taufiq said he had just flown into Los Angeles from Cancun last week with his wife and three sons when he was confronted by another flyer who had been on the same flight onboard a transfer bus.

  9. May Company California - Wikipedia

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    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.