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Oct 10, 2012, 1:23 AM
BifRayRock
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ethereal_reality
I wasn't aware of 'The Famous Department Store'.
Evidently it wasn't as Famous as advertised
The Pasadena store was Jordan's before it became "Famous."
1928 268 E Colorado Blvd - interior of Jordan's Department Store!
Many stores and their names have been lost to the retail winds of change.
http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...doc=jordan%27s
Relatively "less-known" and
partial
1927 "Department Store" Listings:
Bell Bros.
Bon Marche
Buffum's
Coulters
Famous Army Navy
Fischs
Francis
Franklin
Hackel & Guterman
Jordan's
J.C. Penny
Rosenblatt Bros.
Scott's
WL Smith
BF Snider
HT Tomio
Ville De Paris
Walker's Dept Store
Warner
Weisman
Western Dept Store
Westlake Dept Store
and then in 1928 there is Meyers and Mathers and . . . SearS Roebuck and Montgomery Ward . . . Robinaire's, Suffin's, Henshey's, Newberry's, W & J Sloane's (BH) . . . The list is long.
1928 Mather's Dept Store
- East Colorado Blvd from Marengo (above the Bank)
Boston Store 35 N Raymond, Pasadena 1932
W & J Sloane, Beverly Hills, 1940
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