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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.
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. ...
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
In January 1997, the mall lost both department store anchors, the Robinsons-May (which had replaced May Company) and what had been the Bullocks Wilshire, as Macy's acquired the chain and closed stores. In February 1998, Cousins Properties of Atlanta bought the mall from the Hahn Co. for $13.5 million, and began another renovation, this time ...
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).