List of department stores in Downtown Los Angeles facts for kids
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). They are ordered by geography (Spring Street and Broadway, north to south; Seventh Street, east to west). Part of the History of Retail in Southern California.
| Store | Opened | Left | Moved or closed? | Location | Sq ft | Sq m | Architects | Current use | |
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| SPRING ST. BETWEEN TEMPLE AND SECOND | |||||||||
| Coulter's (1st sequential location) |
1884 | 1898 | Moved | Hollenbeck Block, SW corner 2nd & Spring | Historic Broadway station | ||||
| Hamburger's (1st seq. loc.) | 1888 | 1908 | Moved | Phillips Block, Franklin & Spring | Burgess J. Reeve | Site of City Hall | |||
| Mullen & Bluett | 1889 | 1910 | Moved | 101–5 N. Spring | Empty lot | ||||
| Jacoby Bros. (1st seq. loc.) |
1891 | 1900 | Moved | 128–134(–138) N. Spring at Court | Site of City Hall | ||||
| The Hub | 1896 | 1916 | Moved | Bullard Block, Spring at Court | Morgan & Walls | Site of City Hall. The Hub moved to 430 S. Broadway. | |||
| BROADWAY | |||||||||
| Broadway from 2nd to 3rd | |||||||||
| Ville de Paris (A. Fusenot Co.) |
1893 | 1898 | Moved | Potomac Block, 221-3 S. Broadway | Block, Curlett & Eisen | added to Coulter's late 1907, demolished 1958, now a parking lot | |||
| Coulter's (3rd seq. loc.) |
1905 | 1917 | Moved | Potomac Block: 225-7-9 S. B'way through to 224-6-8 S. Hill. 1907: expanded into 219-221-223 B'way. | 157,000 | 14,586 | Block, Curlett & Eisen | demolished, site of parking lot | |
| Boston Dry Goods (J.W. Robinson Co.) |
1895 | 1915 | Moved | 237–241 S. Broadway | Theodore Eisen, Sumner Hunt | Parking lot | |||
| I. Magnin/ Myer Siegel (1st seq. loc.) |
1899 | ? | Moved | Irvine Byrne Block, 251 S. Broadway |
Sumner Hunt | Wedding chapel | |||
| Broadway from 3rd to 4th | |||||||||
| Coulter's (2nd seq. loc.) |
1898 | 1905 | Moved | 317–325 S. Broadway through to 314–322 Hill St. (Homer Laughlin Bldg.) | 86,000 | John B. Parkinson | became Ville de Paris Now Grand Central Market |
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| Jacoby Bros. (2nd seq. loc.) | 1899 | 1935-6 | Moved | 331-333-335 S. Broadway | 60,000 | 5574 | John B. Parkinson | Was "Boston Store" in late 1930s. Currently independent retail. 2 of 4 floors were removed. | |
| Ville de Paris (2nd seq. loc.) |
1905 | 1917 | Moved. | 317–325 S. Broadway through to 314–322 Hill Street Homer Laughlin Building |
96,000 | 8919 | John B. Parkinson | Grand Central Market | |
| J. J. Haggarty New York Store |
1905 | 1917 | Moved | 337–9 S. Broadway | Small retail. Only 2 stories remain. | ||||
| J. M. Hale (Hale’s) | 1909 | ? | ? | 341-343-345 S. Broadway | retail, top floors were removed | ||||
| BROADWAY south of 4th St. | |||||||||
| Broadway from 4th to 5th | |||||||||
| The Broadway (1st seq. loc.) |
1896 | 1973 | Moved | SW corner 4th & Broadway, later through to Hill | 1924, 577,000 | 53,605 | Junipero Serra State Office Building | ||
| Bon Marché | 1907 | Liquidated | Bumiller Building, 430 S. Broadway | ||||||
| The Hub (2nd seq. loc.) |
1907 | 1916 | Moved | 430 S. Broadway | In 1907, The Hub opened at the former Bon Marché. In March 1916, The Hub moved to 337–9 S. Spring. closing in 1922. | ||||
| Myer Siegel (2nd seq. loc.) |
1899 | ? | Moved | 455 S. Broadway | Became part of Fallas Paredes | ||||
| Broadway from 5th to 6th | |||||||||
| Fifth Street Store (Steele, Faris & Walker), later Walker's |
1905 | ? | Closed | SW corner 5th & Broadway | 1917: 278,640 | 1917:25,887 | Replaced existing store with new building in 1917. Building later housed Ohrbach's |
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| Ohrbach's | Closed | SW corner 5th & Broadway | Former Walker's store. Building later housed Ohrbach's |
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| Silverwoods | 1904 | ? | ? | 556 S. Broadway (NE corner of 6th) | 1920: 115,420 | 1920: 10,723 | Broadway Jewelry Mart | ||
| Broadway from 6th to 7th | |||||||||
| Jacoby Bros. (3rd seq. loc.) |
1936 | 1938 | Liquidated | 605 S. Broadway | Became a Zukor's (1940), now mixed-use | ||||
| Central Dept. Store | 1907 | 1908 | 609–619 S. Broadway | 85,000 | 7897 | Samuel Tilden Norton | Demolished, now site of Los Angeles Theatre | ||
| Myer Siegel (3rd seq. loc.) |
Moved | 617 S. Broadway | Samuel Tilden Norton | Demolished, now site of Los Angeles Theatre | |||||
| Mullen & Bluett (2nd seq. loc.) | 1910 | 1960s | Moved | 610 S. Broadway (Walter P. Story Bldg.) |
Morgan, Walls & Clements | Mixed-use | |||
| Desmond's | 1924 | 1972 | Closed | 616 S. Broadway | 85,000 | 7897 | A. C. Martin | Renovated 2019 as office space, a restaurant and a rooftop bar. | |
| Harris & Frank 2nd concurrent location |
1947 | 1980 | Closed | 644 S. Broadway (Joseph E. Carr Building) |
Robert Brown Young | ||||
| Bullock's (1st seq. loc.) |
1907 | 1983 | Closedb | NW corner 7th & Broadway by 1934, most of the block 6th/ 7th/ Broadway/ Hill |
1907: 350,000 1934: 806,000 |
1907: 32,516 1934: 74,880 |
Parkinson & Bergstrom | St. Vincents Jewelry Mart | |
| Broadway from 7th to 8th | |||||||||
| F.W. Woolworth | 1920 | 719 S. Broadway | Ross Dress for Less | ||||||
| Reich and Lièvre | 1917 | c.1927 | 737-745 S. Broadway (Isaac Bros. Bldg.) | ||||||
| Broadway from 8th to 9th | |||||||||
| Hamburger's (2nd seq. loc.) After 1925: May Company (1st loc.) |
1906 | 1986 | Moved | SW corner 8th & Broadway by 1930, entire block 8th/ 9th/ Broadway/ Hill |
1906: 482,475 1930, >1,000,000 |
1906: 44,823, 1930 92,903 | Under renovation to become tech campus | ||
| Broadway from 9th to 10th | |||||||||
| Blackstone's | 1917 | 901 S. Broadway (SE corner 9th) | 118,800 | 11,037 | John Parkinson | Building became The Famous, now residential, retail |
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| Eastern Columbia | 1930 | 1957 | 849 S. Broadway through to Hill | 1930: 275,650 (expanded in 1950) | 1930: 25,609 | Claud Beelman | Residential condo | ||
| SEVENTH STREET (from Broadway west to Francisco) | |||||||||
| Seventh between Broadway and Hill | |||||||||
| Bullock's (see above) | |||||||||
| Seventh between Hill and Olive | |||||||||
| Ville de Paris, from 1919 B. H. Dyas | 1917 | 1933 | Liquidated | 420 W. 7th (SE corner Olive) | Dodd and Richards | L.A. Jewelry Mart | |||
| Seventh between Olive and Grand | |||||||||
| Haggarty's | 1917 | 1963 | Closed | Brockman Building, 520–530 W. 7th at Grand |
George D. Barnett, Barnett, Haynes & Barnett |
Apartments | |||
| Coulter's (4th seq. loc.) | 1917 | 1938 | Moved | 500 W. 7th (SW corner Olive) | Dodd and Richards | Mixed-use. Coulter's moved to Miracle Mile. | |||
| Seventh between Grand and Hope | |||||||||
| J. W. Robinson's (2nd seq. loc.) | 1915 | 1993 | Closed | 600 W. 7th ("7th, Hope & Grand") | 1915: 400,000 1923: 623,700 sq ft (57,940 m2) |
1915: 37,161 1923: 57,944 |
Noonan & Richards (1915), Edgar Mayberry/Allison & Allison (1934 remodel) | Mixed-use | |
| Desmond's 7th St. (2nd seq. loc.) | 1934, expanded 1937 | Closed | 2nd Union Oil Building, 617 W. 7th. St. | 22,500 (1937) | 2090 | Alexander Curlett and Claude Beelman | Walgreens | ||
| Seventh between Hope and Flower | |||||||||
| The Broadway (2nd loc.), later Macy's | 1973 | Open | Open | Broadway Plaza 750 W. 7th (Hope to Flower) | 250,000 | 23,226 | Charles Luckman | In operation | |
| Desmond's 7th St. (1st seq. loc.) (B'way store remained open) |
1927 | 1934 | Moved | Roosevelt Building, 717 W. 7th St. | Alexander Curlett and Claude Beelman | Shoo Shoo Baby (restaurant) | |||
| Barker Bros. (final downtown loc.) | 1926 | 1984 | Closed | 818 W. 7th (Flower to Figueroa) | 1,000,000 | 93,000 | Curlett and Beelman | Offices | |
| Seventh between Figueroa and Francisco/I-110 | |||||||||
| Bullock's (2nd seq. loc.), later Macy's | 1986 | 1996 | Closed | Seventh Market Place now FIGat7th, 735 S. Figueroa | Jon Jerde | Gold's Gym (level M1), Target (M2), Zara (M3) | |||
| May Company (2nd seq. loc.), later Macy's | 1986 | 2009a | Closed | Nordstrom Rack (level M1), Target (M2), H&M (M3) | |||||
| FLOWER STREET from Seventh to Eighth | |||||||||
| Weatherby-Kayser shoes | 1925 | 715–9 S. Flower | |||||||
| Myer Siegel (4th seq. loc.) | 1927 | 733 S. Flower | |||||||
| Parmelee-Dohrmann (homewares) | 1927 | 741–7 S. Flower | |||||||
aas Macy's, breopened in 1986 at Citicorp Plaza, now FIGat7th.
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