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Fedco had several locations in Southern California including: Van Nuys ( Los Angeles ), 14920 Raymer Street, store #1, replaced by Target (1956-1999) [ 7 ] La Cienega ( Los Angeles ), 3535 South La Cienega Boulevard, store #2, replaced by Target (1961-1999) [ 8 ]
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 ...
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 ...
White Front. White Front was a chain of discount department stores in California and the western United States from 1959 through the mid-1970s. The stores were noted for the architecture of their store fronts which was an enormous, sweeping archway with the store name spelled in individual letters fanned across the top.
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 ...
National Stores Inc., was a family-owned company headquartered in the Harbor Gateway area of Los Angeles, California that had as many as 88 locations in 5 states including Puerto Rico, and employed 2200 people nationwide in January 2022. [citation needed] As of 2023 National Stores Inc. no longer has any operating stores within the continental ...
The Broadway was a mid-level department store chain headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1896 by English-born Arthur Letts Sr., and named after what was once the city's main shopping street, [ 1] the Broadway became a dominant retailer in Southern California and the Southwest.