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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 ...
Hartfield’s Downtown Los Angeles location at 545 Broadway was a 1931 Art Deco building originally home to the F. W. Grand Silver Store. Hartfield was present on Broadway (Los Angeles), the main shopping district in the Los Angeles area, in the 1940s, at 545 Broadway, and a 1943 advertisement showed branches at 253 South Market Street in Inglewood, 650 Pacific Boulevard in Huntington Park ...
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 ...
In 1929, the company was founded and opened its first store at 7651 S. Central Avenue in Florence, South Los Angeles [3] [4] In 1950 it expanded this store. In a 1950 advertisement, the company tongue-in-cheek explained that its lone location was in a "low rent area". [5] Its second store opened in October 1957 at 16040 Sherman Way in Van Nuys. [6]
Clifton's Cafeteria, once part of a chain of eight Clifton's restaurants, was the oldest surviving cafeteria -style eatery in Los Angeles [ 1] and the largest public cafeteria in the world [ 2] when it closed in 2018. Founded in 1931 by Clifford Clinton, [ 3][ 4] the design of the restaurants included exotic decor and facades that were "kitschy ...
It was founded by 800 U.S. Post Office employees who wanted to leverage their buying power by purchasing goods directly from wholesalers, and eliminate the additional markup of a retail store. The Board of Directors, headed by Robert Kee, established the first store on Slauson Avenue in Los Angeles. Members would come into the store and find ...
Amoeba found a new location for its Los Angeles store on Hollywood Boulevard at Argyle Avenue. It is located inside of a newly constructed apartment complex, the El Centro. The store's vast collections of music CDs, LPs, DVDs, and books were temporarily in storage during construction at the new site during 2020 and 2021. [11]
Paradise in the Park is coming to Los Angeles' scenic Grand Park on Saturday, June 1. The event is a creation of house music producer Jamie Jones, who's brought it to many cities such as New York ...