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Originally Posted by fflint
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They enlarged the corner windows on the ground level completely destroying the look of the building. They made a mess of the interiors which were some of the most beautiful ever built. In its heyday, I. Magnin's Union Square store was every bit the peer of Bergdorf-Goodman in New York. Now it's just another Macy's.
The former I. Magnin on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles was another gorgeous building which was closed when Magnin's merged with Bullock's Wilshire. It reopened as a Korean minimall and the owners showed much greater respect for the design of that store than Macy's did for the design of the store on union square. If you want to have some idea of what the two stores were like when they were I. Magnin, read "A Store to Remember" by James T. Mullane or "I. Magnin & Co.: A California Legacy" by Devin Frick.