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Judging by Groceteria's photo and the Live Local shot of Wilshire & Crescent, it has to be Beverly Hills. It looked like North Hollywood at first glance by the tower, but the LA Times photo doesn't show a diagonal intersection, which the NoHo store was/is located on.

That looks like the intersection of Lankershim, Vineland and Camarillo in North Hollywood. I recognize the shape of the building and the tower, I used to live near there.

Don't forget Capwell's (East Bay) and Weinstock's (Central Valley), the other two Carter/Hawley/Hale chains that ended up being Macy-ated. Did Hamburger (predecessor to May-Calif.) have any connection with the Hamburger's clothing store chain (now defunct) in Baltimore? I always thought that it was...

When you hear a bell in a department store today, it is to page whatever manager is on duty.
Usually it means "this customer is threatening to kick my butt if I don't lower the price of this item, but I have to get a manager's permission first or else I will be fired". ;)

I copied my list from another post and added additional info: Here's a detailed list i have compiled over the years 1. GARDEN GROVE, 9852 CHAPMAN AVE. OPENED 6/15/1960 Closed as a Vons in 2004, was also a Pavillions as of 1986. 2. REDONDO BEACH, 1413 HAWTHORNE BLVD. OPENED 11/3/1960 Giant in 1986, ...

Funny I thought I had read that the two (Kohl's Department Store and Kohl's Foods) were related or maybe I was just assuming they were connected and one and the same. According to Wikipedia, they were. BATUS bought the Kohl company in 1972, and spun off the supermarkets to A&P in 1983. http://e...

Smith's seemed to have a unique store design back in the 80's. Most of them found in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, (now Fry's). In the old days, the stores used to have open enterances where the doors are invisible. There was actually manual sliding pocket doors. However they had powerful air blowers ...

If memory serves, Macy's had the following divisions in the 70s: 1. New York 2. Bambergers (NJ south to MD) 3. Missouri-Kansas (sold to Dillard's) 4. West (originally O'Connor Moffat in SF; San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Reno, Fresno, Modesto, Monterey) 5. Davison's (Atlanta) That's exactly ri...

Two Federated Stores I remember: Temple City - Rosemead Bl at Longden. Now a Valu-Plus market La Puente - Francisquito and Hacienda, next to the old Gemco. Now an Indoor Swap Meet. And there was one for a long time off Olympic in West LA west of the 405. I would say it still said Federated up till ...

In addition to the Macy's stores mentioned by a previous poster, R. H. Macy also operated stores in the midwest under the Macy's name as well as isolated stores in several cities in Florida, and elsewhere that were typically operated more or less directly from New York as opposed to being assigned ...

What I found unusual about Orbach's was that although it was a regional chain, it operated in two regions that were far away from each other: New York/New Jersey and Southern California. The only other regional department store I can think of that operated in non-adjacent regions was Gimbels, which...

Here's a question I've always had: Was there even a "Safeway location #1" due to the fact the chain was formed out of a mid-1920s merger? Maybe "first Skaggs store" might be more appropriate, and for the DC division, "first Sanitary." Not sure where those would be loca...

Lucky Stores also used CASHEX cards, my mother used them all the time.

So what exactly was/is different about a Lucky/Sav-on or Albertsons/Sav-on combo? I have been to one Albertson's store in North Hollywood that has a complete Sav-on side. Do you mean the one at the corner of Van Nuys Blvd and Sherman Way? That store was supposed to be a Lucky/Savon to replace a for...

That has to be where the McDonald's is now. I can tell by the overhang
sign.