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Aug 19, 2016 · Ruben Pardo, one of the city’s few remaining elevator operators, has been brightening people’s days at Miracle Mile’s Wilshire Tower (the longtime home of Desmond’s department store) for ...
Oct 8, 2005 · The former Desmond's department store building, an Art Deco landmark in the Miracle Mile district of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, has been purchased by developers who plan to add a luxury ...
Desmond's Department Store, located at 1001 Westwood Boulevard (lower left) at Weyburn Avenue (foreground), ca. 1940. Several people can be seen walking along the front of the store. The Myer Siegel...
Feb 22, 2018 · Harold Kapelovitz, who died in 2007 at 82, purchased the Desmond’s chain of 17 department stores in 1977. He became chief executive of Walker-Scott Corp. in 1985 following a merger between the ...
Ralph’s Supermarket on the left; Coulter’s Department Store on the right. (“Dick” Whittington Photography Collection; USC Digital Library) The Darkroom was a Miracle Mile camera store located at 5370 Wilshire Boulevard. The original building was constructed in 1926, but the “camera” storefront was built in 1938.
Overview: Desmond's was a Los Angeles-based department store, during its existence second only to Harris & Frank as the oldest Los Angeles retail chain, founded in 1862 as a hat shop by Daniel Desmond (b. Oct. 9 ...
The lobby featured fourteen-karat gold ceiling detailing; the sidewalk display windows were trimmed in rich black and red granite. Doctors and dentists snapped up the upper floors, while downtown stores Desmond's and Silverwoods took the wings on the ground floors.
