they had the coolest pneumatic message system thoughout with pipes running up from the sales counters and then along the ceiling. Also one our favorite things was to go stand in the x-ray box in the shoe department and look through the viewer and see the bones of our feet inside our shoes. Honest. Hard to believe they had such things but they did and they were enormously entertaining to a seven year old.
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Originally Posted by gsjansen
sears roebuck 5601 santa monica boulevard in hollywood 1928 and now
it's hard to believe that these two images are the same building 
here's another building that lost it's fenestration's over time, the nuwilshire theater 1314 wilshire boulevard in santa monica 1938 and now
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