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[[Image:Highsmithmaycompanywilshire.jpg|thumb|250px|right|May Company Department Store, prior to the conversion into [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] west building]] |
[[Image:Highsmithmaycompanywilshire.jpg|thumb|250px|right|May Company Department Store, prior to the conversion into [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] west building]] |
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'''May Company California''' was a chain of [[department store]]s operating in the [[Southern California]] and [[Nevada]], |
'''May Company California''' was a chain of [[department store]]s operating in the [[Southern California]] and [[Nevada]], with headquarters in [[North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California|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]]. |
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May Company California was established in 1923 when May acquired '''A. Hamburger & Sons Co'''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pitt|first=Dale|title=Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County|publisher=University of California Press|year=2000|page=318|isbn=9780520205307|url=http://books.google.ca/books?id=jhmY-UzUKOUC&pg=PA318|accessdate=2009-02-04}}</ref> (founded in 1881 by Asher Hamburger). The company operated exclusively in [[Southern California]] until 1983 when [[May Department Stores]] had dissolved [[Goldwater's]], based in [[Scottsdale, Arizona]] and transferred its [[Las Vegas, Nevada]] store to May Company California. |
May Company California was established in 1923 when May acquired '''A. Hamburger & Sons Co'''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pitt|first=Dale|title=Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County|publisher=University of California Press|year=2000|page=318|isbn=9780520205307|url=http://books.google.ca/books?id=jhmY-UzUKOUC&pg=PA318|accessdate=2009-02-04}}</ref> (founded in 1881 by Asher Hamburger). The company operated exclusively in [[Southern California]] until 1983 when [[May Department Stores]] had dissolved [[Goldwater's]], based in [[Scottsdale, Arizona]] and transferred its [[Las Vegas, Nevada]] store to May Company California. |
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| Company type | Department store |
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| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1881 Los Angeles, California |
| Fate | Merged with J.W. Robinson's |
| Successor | Robinson's-May (1993) Macy's (2006) |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
| Products | Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares. |
May Company California was a chain of department stores operating in the 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.
May Company California was established in 1923 when May acquired A. Hamburger & Sons Co.[1] (founded in 1881 by Asher Hamburger). The company operated exclusively in Southern California until 1983 when May Department Stores had dissolved Goldwater's, based in Scottsdale, Arizona and transferred its Las Vegas, Nevada store to May Company California.
The May Company store which was in Whittier, CA at the Quad opened in 1965 and closed on March 31, 1987, a mere 6 months prior to the Whittier Narrows Earthquake which took place on October 1, 1987 at 07:42. The store's three-level parking structure fell almost flat to the ground as a result of this quake, and the store itself suffered internal damage but remained intact until its controlled-implosion (via dynamite) a few years later.
Two well-known stores were located on the corners of 8th Street and Broadway, and Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. The 1926 garage building at 9th and Hill Streets was one of the Nation's first parking structures (Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 1001).
References
- ^ Pitt, Dale (2000). Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County. University of California Press. p. 318. ISBN 9780520205307. Retrieved 2009-02-04.