Tuesday, January 23, 2007



Los Angeles' first suburban shopping center. The site plan here
depicts what had been completed by 1948 (in black). A north-
west block of stores (in gray) came inline soon after.
at 11:14 PM

2 comments:

Steve Carras said...

Times and malls certainly have changed (so did the neighborhood as well).

The Broadway became Bloomingdales for a while after The Broadway (loved that 1920s-40s font.similiar to the Hollywood/Vine "Broadway Hollywood" store) chain ended.Their May Company was very similiar to the world-famous Wishire-Fairfax one (1940).

Wed Dec 05, 02:17:00 AM EST
The Curator said...

I dunno....

Info I found (from January 1996) sez that the Broadway at BALDWIN HILLS was to be rebranded as a Macy's in 1996. Apparently, this particular store closed in 1999 and became a Wal-Mart in 2003.

According to other accounts, the second Macy's at BALDWIN HILLS-CRENSHAW PLAZA opened in late '06, in the old May Company Crenshaw/Robinsons-May store.

Info I found, pertaining to SHERMAN OAKS FASHION SQUARE, sez that the Bloomingdale's there (taking the old Broadway store...the western anchor) was LA County's first Bloomingdale's (opening in '96).

I guess that the CENTURY CITY Bloomingdale's (in the old The Broadway there) might have opened a tiny bit later?

Is this info incorrect?

Wed Dec 05, 03:16:00 PM EST

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