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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).
The store competed downtown with smaller, local Long Beach department stores like Marti and Wise Cos. as well as Sears and Ward's, all of which opened large new stores downtown in 1928-9. [8] In the early 1950s Lakewood Center would provide competition with May Company California and Los Altos Center , with The Broadway for the suburban shopper.
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.
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 ...
The Beverly Center is a shopping mall in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is an eight-story structure located near the West Hollywood border but within Los Angeles city limits, bounded by Beverly Boulevard, La Cienega Boulevard, 3rd Street, and San Vicente Boulevard. The mall's anchor stores are Bloomingdale's and Macy's.
Los Angeles County and city will spend billions of dollars to provide more housing and support services for homeless people under a lawsuit settlement approved Thursday by a federal judge. The ...
The city of Los Angeles will lift restrictions on street vending within 500 feet of schools and farmers markets and cancel illegal citations. In a win for street vendors, L.A. agrees to lift ...
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 ...