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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]
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.
Fifth Street Store: Walker's (Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego), main store in downtown Los Angeles was also known as the Fifth Street Store since it was located at the corner of Fifth and Broadway, main store was founded in 1905 as Steele, Faris, Walker Co., later became Muse, Faris, Walker Co., and then finally Walker Inc. in 1924; opened ...
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. ...
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 ...
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.
The Promenade (formerly known as Westfield Promenade) is a dead shopping mall in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The mall is located two blocks away from the Westfield Topanga Mall , and is owned by a private investment group that includes Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke 's company.
Magnin would return with its own Los Angeles-area retail store later when it opened boutiques in the Maryland Hotel in Pasadena and the Ambassador Hotel in Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles, a branch at 6340 Hollywood Boulevard, [6] [7] and in 1939 a landmark store at 3240 Wilshire Boulevard near Bullocks Wilshire, designed by Myron Hunt, architect of ...