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This is a list of department stores and some other major retailers in the four major corridors of Downtown Los Angeles: Spring Street between Temple and Second ("heyday" from c.1884–1910); Broadway between 1st and 4th (c.1895-1915) and from 4th to 11th (c.1896-1950s); and Seventh Street between Broadway and Figueroa/Francisco, plus a block of Flower St. (c.1915 and after).
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.
The building was created to house the then-separate Eastern (furniture and homeware) and Columbia (apparel) department stores both owned and managed by Adolph Sieroty, who had founded his Los Angeles retail concern as a clock shop at 556 S. Spring St. in 1892. [18] [3] At opening in 1930, the building had 275,650 sq. ft. of floor space.
May Company Building (Broadway, Los Angeles) / 34.043728; -118.2548894. The May Company Building on Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, a.k.a. Hamburgers/May Company Department Store[ 1] and the May Department Store Building, later known as the California Broadway Trade Center, was the flagship store of the May Company California department store ...
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 ...
The late- Victorian-era Downtown of Los Angeles in 1880 was centered at the southern end of the Los Angeles Plaza area, and over the next two decades, it extended south and west along Main Street, Spring Street, and Broadway towards Third Street. Most of the 19th-century buildings no longer exist, surviving only in the Plaza area or south of ...
The Los Angeles ban, which will take effect by the spring 2025 semester, goes beyond the school district’s existing policy, which bans students from using cell phones during class instruction ...
Broadway Stores, Inc., was an American retailer based in Southern California. Known through its history as Carter Hawley Hale Stores and Broadway Hale Stores over time, it acquired other retail store chains in regions outside its California home base and became in certain retail sectors a regional and national retailer in the 1970s and 1980s.