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Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares. May Company California was an American chain of department stores operating in Southern California and Nevada, with headquarters at its flagship Downtown Los Angeles store until 1983 [1] when it moved them to North Hollywood.
- Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares.
- Los Angeles, California
- October 29, 1881; 141 years ago in Los Angeles, California as A. Hamburger & Sons, Inc.
- Department store
housewares. The May Department Stores Company was an American department store holding company, formerly headquartered in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. [1] It was founded in Leadville, Colorado, by David May in 1877, moving to St. Louis in 1905. [2] After many changes in the retail industry, the company merged with Federated Department Stores ...
- 1877; 146 years ago in Leadville, Colorado, U.S.
- Retailing
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Dec 14, 2021 · Long before so many people did their shopping online, Los Angeles' department stores -- Bullock's, Robinson's, May Company, Hamburger's and more -- were the place to be.
- Patt Morrison
- Columnist
- patt.morrison@latimes.com
Founded in 1881 as "The People's Store," A. Hamburger and Sons eventually became known as Hamburgers and then became the May Company when the May family took it over. The May Company remained in this location until the early 1990s. It was here that Sadie Marks (aka Mary Livingston) worked as a salesgirl while being courted by Jack Benny when he ...
As one of the city’s largest and most elegant department stores, May Company Wilshire symbolized L.A.’s ascent as a major modern metropolis. In the early 1990s, May Company California merged with J.W. Robinson’s to form Robinsons-May, closing multiple locations, including the Wilshire store.
May Company California was an American chain of department stores operating in Southern California and Nevada, with headquarters in North Hollywood, California. It was a subsidiary of May Department Stores and merged with May's other Southern California subsidiary, J. W. Robinson's, in 1993 to form Robinsons-May.
Renamed The May Company, the store opened new avenues in California and helped to produce 1926 sales figures that surpassed the $100 million mark for the first time in the company's history. It was a final triumph for David May, who died in 1927 at the age of 79.
