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In 1983, Wherehouse Entertainment Inc., renamed from Integrity Entertainment Corp., went public with a public offering of 750,000 shares under the symbol WEI. At this time, the company had 126 stores, primarily in California. [6] [7] In 1984, the company began renting movies, or "video software" in 77 of its 126 stores, with a roll out into ...
The Akron. Akron Stores or The Akron was a Southern California –based imported goods and home decorating department store retail chain established in 1947 and was known to carry unusual merchandise, mostly imports. [ 1] The chain had over 24 stores throughout Southern California from San Diego to San Francisco before it was forced to close in ...
Municipal Warehouse No. 1. / 33.72083°N 118.27222°W / 33.72083; -118.27222. Municipal Warehouse No. 1 is a six-story warehouse built in 1917 on the outermost point of land on the main channel at the Port of Los Angeles. It played an important part in the establishment of Los Angeles as a major center of international trade and was ...
Wallichs Music City. Wallichs Music City was a record store [ 1] in Hollywood, California, US, founded by Glenn E. Wallichs, [ 2] that also had stores in West Covina, [ 3][ 4] Lakewood, [ 5] Canoga Park, Costa Mesa, Torrance, Buena Park, [ 6] and Hawthorne [ 7] from 1940 to 1978 and was one of the first to display cellophane-sealed albums in ...
Camelot Music. Founded. 1956 in Massillon, Ohio. Defunct. 1998. Fate. Merger to Trans World Entertainment. Camelot Music was a mall-based American retailer of prerecorded music and accessories and was one of the largest music retailers in the United States based on store count. [ 1] Camelot specialized in the sales of prerecorded music ...
Martin, whose real name is Martin Mendoza, moved to L.A. from San Francisco nearly 30 years ago and has been DJing underground house music parties ever since as an early adopter of the acid house ...
McCabe's Guitar Shop is a musical instrument store and live music venue on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, California, United States. Opened in 1958 by Gerald L. McCabe, a well-known furniture designer. McCabe's specializes in acoustic and folk instruments, including guitars, banjos, mandolins, dulcimers, fiddles, ukuleles, psaltries, bouzoukis ...
Ash Grove (music club) Coordinates: 34.08349°N 118.36733°W. The Ash Grove was a folk music club located at 8162 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, California, United States, founded in 1958 by Ed Pearl and named after the Welsh folk song, " The Ash Grove ." In its fifteen years of existence, the Ash Grove altered the music scene in Los Angeles ...