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    Retail in Southern California dates back to its first dry goods store that Jonathan Temple opened in 1827 on Calle Principal (Main Street), when Los Angeles...
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    The history of retail encompasses the sale of goods and services to consumers across all cultures and time periods from ancient history to the present...
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  • This article covers the history of department stores and retail in Palm Springs, California, particularly in that city's downtown. Palm Springs Plaza,...
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  • with retail locations in California, Arizona and Nevada. The company operates under the legal name Adir International, LLC. Curacao sells most of its merchandise...
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    This is a list of the 100 largest cities in the U.S. state of California ranked by population, based on estimates for July 1, 2023, by the United States...
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    suburban malls sprung up starting in the 1950s. (see also: History of Retail in Southern California) Oil was discovered in 1921 on Signal Hill, which split...
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  • the name used by two separate chains of supermarkets within Southern California. The first chain originated in Pasadena and operated from 1930 until...
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  • Ohrbach's (category Retail companies established in 1923)
    (renamed American Retail Group in 1994) acquired Howland-Steinbach from Supermarkets General Corp and announced the shuttering of all six Greater Los...
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  • Seventh Street, east to west). Part of the History of Retail in Southern California. aas Macy's, breopened in 1986 at Citicorp Plaza, now FIGat7th. "Temporary...
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    Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of...
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    FedMart (category Retail companies established in 1954)
    of California. There were 46 stores left when Hugo Mann decided to close the chain in 1982 and lease the store locations to other retail firms. 35 of...
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  • Gemco (category Retail companies established in 1959)
    chain of membership department stores that was owned by San Leandro-based Lucky Stores, a California supermarket company which eventually became part of Albertsons...
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    Smart & Final (category Retail companies established in 1871)
    chain of warehouse-style food and supply stores based in Commerce, California, which developed through a series of mergers and expansions. The oldest of the...
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  • Quigley's (category Defunct department stores based in Hollywood)
    Stores) was a chain of variety stores and junior department stores in Los Angeles County, California, from 1936 through 1990. In 1936, Roger Bemis (R...
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    Reich and Lièvre (category Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area)
    Reich and Lièvre was a chain of stores across California in the early 1900s, focusing on upscale women's apparel, a format known at the time as "cloak...
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  • Alpha Beta (category History of Pomona, California)
    with dozens around southern California. They were eventually sold; many became Denny's. The company was bought by American Stores in 1961. Skaggs Drug...
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  • Pico/Rimpau (category Streetcars in California)
    area is the location of several key former and current transportation hubs and retail shopping centers for the Los Angeles area. Retail shopping centers included...
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  • Stater Bros. (category Retail companies established in 1936)
    based in San Bernardino, California, consisting of 171 stores located throughout Southern California. It was founded in Yucaipa, California, on August...
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  • NoHo West (category Official website not in Wikidata)
    available by April 2023. In the commercial retail section of the development, Trader Joe's had their grand opening in June 2020. while the Regal North Hollywood...
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    Harris & Frank (category Retail companies established in 1856)
    and major chain in the history of retail in Southern California, which at its peak had around 40 stores across Southern California and in neighboring states...
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  • Hartfield-Zodys (category Retail companies disestablished in 1986)
    and starting in 1960, the Zodys chain of discount retail stores (1960–1986), which operated locations in California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Michigan...
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  • Pic 'N' Save (category Retail companies established in 1950)
    the second-largest closeout retail chain in the United States. Financial troubles caused the chain to close many stores in the late 1990s and early 2000s...
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    Anchor Blue Clothing Company (category Retail companies disestablished in 2011)
    in the City of Orange in the Mall of Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, Montclair and East Los Angeles. Dave Miller founded his own clothing retail store...
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    Eastern Columbia Building (category 1930 establishments in California)
    of Art Deco Streamline Moderne in Los Angeles". Historian Robert Winter called the building "a shining example of Southern California's golden age of...
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    May Company California was an American chain of department stores operating in Southern California and Nevada, with headquarters at its flagship Downtown...
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  • Licorice Pizza (store) (category Retail companies based in California)
    In the next fifteen years, multiple locations spread throughout Southern California. They became known for highly knowledgeable staff, all-request sound...
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    Schwab's Pharmacy (category Demolished buildings and structures in California)
    Schwab's Pharmacy in Hollywood became the most famous and longest-operating outlet of their small retail chain. Like many drug stores in the United States...
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    Ralphs (category Retail companies established in 1873)
    American supermarket chain in Southern California. The largest subsidiary of Cincinnati-based Kroger, it is the oldest such chain west of the Mississippi River...
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  • Federated Group (category Defunct retail companies of the United States)
    chain of consumer electronics retail stores with 67 stores in California, Texas, Arizona, and Kansas. The company was founded by Wilfred Schwartz in 1970...
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    Colonel Fletcher Building (category Buildings and structures in San Diego)
    602–632 Broadway, in Core, San Diego was the site of some of the retail history of San Diego. The building is at the northeast corner of 6th and Broadway;...
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