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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 ...
Kitson is a pop culture brand that was established in 2000 on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. Kitson has a kids' store called Kitson Kids on Robertson and has other locations in Beverly Hills and the Pacific Palisades.
Like many drug stores in the United States during the mid-twentieth century, Schwab's sold medicines and had a counter serving ice cream dishes and light meals. In the 1930s, Schwab's was the inspiration for songwriter Harold Arlen to write the music for the song " Over the Rainbow " for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz .
The Famous Department Store (not to be confused with the "Famous Clothing Store", precursor to Famous-Barr and the May Department Stores Co.) was a department store in Los Angeles, California. Famous had its origins with the Cal Hirsch & Sons Mercantile Co., founded in 1860 or 1871 depending on the source, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which ran Army and Navy ...
As Los Angeles continued to grow, so did Robinson's business and in 1914 it announced its construction of a new $1,000,000, (~$22.5 million in 2023) seven-story flagship store with over nine acres (400,000 square feet (37,000 m 2)) of floor space, along the south side of West Seventh Street stretching alone the complete block between Grand and ...
Historically the Fairfax District has been a center of the Jewish community in Los Angeles. It is known for the Farmers Market, The Grove, CBS Television City broadcasting center, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in Pan Pacific Park, the Beverly-Fairfax Historic District neighborhood, and Fairfax Avenue restaurants and shops.
The first phase was a shopping center across the street from Asian Garden Mall named Asian Village, developed in 1985. [6] Development involved capital from many Asian investors, including a Chinese Indonesian and Roger Chen , who started the 99 Ranch Market chain with the first location inside Asian Village. [ 1 ]
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]