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The Original Pantry Cafe is a coffee shop and restaurant in Los Angeles, California. Located at the corner of 9th and Figueroa in Downtown L.A.'s South Park district, The Pantry (as it is known by locals) claims to never have closed or been without a customer since it opened including when it changed locations in 1950 to make room for a freeway ...
Fifth Street Store: Walker's (Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego), main store in downtown Los Angeles was also known as the Fifth Street Store since it was located at the corner of Fifth and Broadway, main store was founded in 1905 as Steele, Faris, Walker Co., later became Muse, Faris, Walker Co., and then finally Walker Inc. in 1924; opened ...
Clifton's Cafeteria, once part of a chain of eight Clifton's restaurants, was the oldest surviving cafeteria -style eatery in Los Angeles [1] and the largest public cafeteria in the world [2] when it closed in 2018. Founded in 1931 by Clifford Clinton, [3] [4] the design of the restaurants included exotic decor and facades that were "kitschy ...
Johnie's is located across from the May Co. department store, one of Los Angeles' best examples of Streamline Moderne architecture, on the Miracle Mile. The May Co. building is now part of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Johnie's was declared a historical landmark by the Los Angeles City Council on November 27, 2013.
Milliron joined the stores as an attorney in 1917, and became president in September 1943. He purchased the store from William A. Faris. Continued as Milliron's even after purchased by The Broadway in 1950. 1953–1959: the store was a branch of Ohrbach's, opened November 30, 1953, promoted as Ohrbach's-Downtown; Broadway, Los Angeles store
Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of Los Angeles. It is part of the Central Los Angeles region and covers a 5.84 sq mi (15.1 km 2 ) [3] area. As of 2020, it contains over 500,000 jobs and has a population of roughly 85,000 residents, [4] with an estimated daytime population of over 200,000 people prior to the COVID-19 ...
Googie's Coffee Shop. Googie's Coffee Shop (styled googies) was a small restaurant located at 8100 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles next door to the famous Schwab's Pharmacy at the beginning of the Sunset Strip. It was designed in 1949 by architect John Lautner and lent its name to Googie architecture, a genre of modernist design in the 1950s ...
Michelin published restaurant guides for Los Angeles in 2008 and 2009 but suspended the publication in 2010. [1] Publication of the guide would resume in 2019 but now covered all of California in one guide. In 2023, Michelin published a guide covering the entire state of California, [2] awarding stars to 35 restaurants in Greater Los Angeles ...
This is a list of department stores and some other major retailers in the four major corridors of Downtown Los Angeles: Spring Street between Temple and Second ("heyday" from c.1884–1910); Broadway between 1st and 4th (c.1895-1915) and from 4th to 11th (c.1896-1950s); and Seventh Street between Broadway and Figueroa/Francisco, plus a block of Flower St. (c.1915 and after).
History. The Jewelry District is predominantly made up of early twentieth-century buildings, when the number of registered vehicles in the county grew from 160,000 to 842,000 in a span of 10 years. Half of the area falls under the greater "Historic Core" of Downtown Los Angeles, which spans between Hill and Main Streets, and 3rd and 9th streets.