
Steve Carras
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Yeah, I do. AM-NM centuar also pointed out one of the other big department stores:May Co. A lot of the old department stores of May Co. DO still exist in Southern Calif. [that silver lining!] like the Crenshaw Baldwins Hills [YO!] and the Lakewood, but a lot have been demoloshed [though then again, the one in WHittier CA@The Quad, one of Calif.'s and the world's first malls, was damaged in the Northridge earthquake along along with the quake's locality's eponymous 1971 mall [N'ridge].[
in 1987. The Whittier May Co. had already been closed in 1987 though parts of it DO still survive, transported a la the London Bridge now at Lake Havasu, at Ocean View/Whittier as a dentist office [& likewise some small firms at the Quad, 1953, now moved 'cross Painter from the mall]. The May Company's age when destroyed in 1987? 22. Built in 1965. In the style of the Topanga, Knotts Berry Farm [Buena Park, which debuted the archetecture], and with the proto-"Sony" font.:) |