In 1957, the "huge" LOS ALTOS CENTER encompassed 500,000 leasable square feet and housed fifty stores and services, including those in an adjacent, North Bellflower Boulevard store strip. This section (in black) predated the mall-type center (in light gray).

LOS ALTOS CENTER TENANTS 1957:

THE BROADWAY (with The Palm Room restaurant) / J.C. PENNEY / F.W. WOOLWORTH (with luncheonette) / Alloway Barber Shop / Brownie's Toy Store / C.H. Baker Shoes / Cleveland's Service Station (outparcel) / Dinel's Feminine Apparel / Donnan's Sewing Machines / G.R. Kinney Family Shoes / Gladys Fowler ladies' wear / Goodyear Tire & Appliance / Helen Grace Candies / Hof's Hut / Horace Green Hardware / J.C. Wehrman Jewelers / John Norman Store For Men / Lee & Billy Togs / Lerner Shops / Long Beach National Bank / Lonnie's Sporting Goods / Los Altos 3-Minute Car Wash (outparcel) / Los Altos Community Cleaners / Los Altos Liquors / Los Altos Pharmacy / Los Altos Realty / Los Altos TV Sales & Service / Marie's Kiddie Shop / Pfeiffer's Linen Shop / Romona Cakes & Pastries / Ryan's Barber Shop / Sam's Los Altos Shoe Repair / Sav-on Drug (with luncheonette) / Sears Catalog & Appliance 


The city block north of LOS ALTOS CENTER was developed, as an additional open-air shopping hub, in the mid-1960s. The new north section was anchored by a Unimart membership discount store and included Thrifty Drug and Barker Brothers Furniture locations.

 LOS ALTOS CENTER TENANTS 1965:

 THE BROADWAY (with Beauty Salon, Chafing Dish restaurant and freestanding Tire Center) / J.C. PENNEY / F.W. WOOLWORTH (with luncheonette) / Aetna Savings & Loan / Alice King's Hair Stylists / Alloway's Barber Shop / Bank Of America / Beryl-Ann Florist / C.H. Baker Shoes / Children's Bootery, Incorporated / Community Cleaners / Fred Rose Realty / G.R. Kinney Family Shoes / Gladys Fowler ladies' wear / Goodyear Tire & Appliance / Helen Grace Candies / Horace Green & Sons Hardware / Hof's Hut / J.C. Wehrman Jewelers / John's Men's Shop / Kruger's Union Oil Station (outparcel) / Leonard's Junior Ready-to-Wear / Lerner Shops / Lonnie's Sporting Goods / Los Altos 3-Minute Car Wash (outparcel) / Los Altos Beauty Salon / Los Altos Liquors / Los Altos Pastry Shop / Los Altos Pharmacy / Los Altos Stationers / Marie's Tots & Teens / Musical Jewel Box / Pfeiffer's Fabrics / Ryan's Barber Shop / Sam's Orthopedia Shoe Repair / Sav-on Drug (with luncheonette) / See's Candies / Stanley C. Marrish, Optometrist / Steffano Shoe Repair / Tammy's Dress Shop / The Village Squire / United States National Bank / US Post Office / William Suhm Stationers / Zales Jewelers 

NORTH SECTION TENANTS 1965:

UNIMART (with Garden Center, Pharmacy, Supermarket and freestanding Auto Center) / BARKER BROTHERS FURNITURE / Brookdale Ice Cream / Brownie's Toys / Cathy's Maternity Shop / Chianis Shoe Repair / Dunn's Men's Wear / Foreman & Clark / Gallenkamp Shoes / Glendale Federal Savings & Loan / House of Fabrics / Household Finance Corporation / Joe Warren Realty / Leed's Qualicraft Shoes / Marcia Lynn Ready-to-Wear / Quick-and-Clean Laundry & Dry Cleaners / Singer Sewing Center / Smit's Gifts of Long Beach (new location) / Thrifty Drug (with luncheonette) / Winstead's Camera Shop (new location)