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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]
Hills Department Store Sign outside former Hermitage, Tennessee location. Hills filed for bankruptcy protection in February 1991, and the number of stores declined, from 214 to about 150. [ 6 ] Hills' financial woes dated back to its 1985 leveraged buyout from the Shoe Corporation of America which saddled it with debt.
Bullock's was a chain of full-line department stores from 1907 through 1995, headquartered in Los Angeles, growing to operate across California, Arizona and Nevada.Bullock's also operated as many as seven more upscale Bullocks Wilshire specialty department stores across Southern California.
Original anchor stores were May Company, [6] Bonwit Teller, [7] JCPenney, [8] and Bullock's. [9] [10] In 1987, Bonwit Teller decided to close all of its Californian stores [11] and its spot at the mall was taken by Bullocks Wilshire. [12] This was the first time that a Bullocks Wilshire store was located in the same mall with a Bullock's store.
Here's a nostalgic look back at what earned these iconic department stores their place in history and what's happened to them since. Wanamaker's, Montgomery Ward, Barneys, and Marshall Field's. ...
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
Beverly Hills (1st store) 9626 Wilshire at Bedford [25] 1928 [7] 1947 [7] Wilshire Center (full store) 3240 Wilshire Boulevard [8] Feb 10, 1939 [26] [8] Near Bullocks Wilshire. Designed by Myron Hunt, architect of the Ambassador Hotel [8] Beverly Hills (2nd store) 9634 Wilshire Boulevard 1947 [27] Jan 1995 [25] Saks Fifth Avenue Men's Store [28]
Two well-known stores were the flagship Downtown store on 8th Street between Broadway and Hill streets, and the May Company Wilshire at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. The 1926 garage building at 9th and Hill Streets was one of the nation's first parking structures ( Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 1001).