The Fifth Street Store was a major department store in Los Angeles opened in 1905.
44-492: The official name of the company and store changed many times: This store was located at the southwest corner of Fifth and Broadway . The company replaced a previous building with a new eleven-story store completed in 1924. From 1925 the store began to advertise as Walkers — co-founder Ralf (R. M.) Walker would later found what would be San Diego's largest department store chain, Walker Scott . In 1946 it changed its name to Milliron's . The Broadway Department Store purchased
88-514: A branch store in downtown San Diego in 1935, which separated in the early 1950s and became Walker Scott . Broadway (Los Angeles) Broadway , until 1890 Fort Street , is a thoroughfare in Los Angeles County, California , United States. The portion of Broadway from 3rd to 9th streets, in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles , was the city's main commercial street from
132-519: A north-south orientation, parallel with Broadway, instead of running more northeasterly and meeting Main Street at Temple Street. As a result the Poundcake Hill buildings faced the newly aligned Spring Street until they were demolished. Adjacent to the south, mid-block, is a portion of Grand Park . The southwest corner, during Victorian times the site of unremarkable retail and office buildings,
176-659: Is Main Street just north of the San Diego Freeway (I-405) in Carson . From there it runs 10 miles (16 km) north through Athens and South Los Angeles to Downtown Los Angeles – at Olympic Blvd. entering downtown's Historic Core , in which the buildings lining Broadway form the Broadway Theater and Commercial District . Crossing 3rd Street, Broadway passes through the Civic Center including Grand Park . After crossing
220-581: Is that I don't think they want our types of businesses." The Downtown's real estate revitalization, using the City's adaptive reuse ordinance that makes it easier for developers to convert outmoded and/or vacant office and commercial buildings into residential buildings, has reached the Broadway Historic District. It includes the transformation of the United Artists Theater office tower into
264-470: The Ace Hotel Los Angeles , and restoration of its movie palace. The Bringing Back Broadway commission is working on further reviving the landmark Los Angeles boulevard in the historic district. Led by City Councilman Jose Huizar , the commission has recommended widening sidewalks, eliminating traffic lanes, constructing new parking structures, and bringing back streetcar service reminiscent of
308-762: The Los Angeles Public Library is on Workman Street. Just 5.5% of Lincoln Heights residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, a low percentage for the city. PUC Schools operates the Milagro Charter School (K-5) and the Excel Charter Academy (6-8) in Lincoln Heights. Major thoroughfares include Valley Boulevard ; Mission Road ; Pasadena Avenue; North Main, Marengo, Daly, and Figueroa Streets; and North Broadway . The Golden State Freeway ( I-5 ) runs through
352-598: The US-101 (Santa Ana Freeway) , signs read "North Broadway" as it enters Chinatown . It then curves northeast, passing through old railyards, crosses the Golden State Fwy. (I-5) and heads due east to its terminus at Mission Road in Lincoln Heights . Broadway, one of the oldest streets in the city, was laid out as part of the 1849 plan of Los Angeles made by Lieutenant Edward Ord and named Fort Street. Fort Street began at
396-610: The Western Shoe Co. (through 1922), later known as the Western Department Store (1922–1928). Lettering covered the face of the building from top to bottom through the end of the 1950s: "THE LARGEST SHOE DEPT. IN THE WEST". The southeast corner of 2nd and Broadway was the site of Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles Lincoln Heights is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California , United States. It
440-558: The site of the Central Business District during the 1880s and 1890s ) Cable cars of the Temple Street Cable Railway ran along Temple Street starting in 1886 and were replaced with Pacific Electric streetcars in 1902. This location was at the time known as Pound Cake Hill. The buildings located here faced New High Street to their east and Broadway to their west. They were as follows: Currently on
484-632: The 1870s and is found wholly within the original Spanish four leagues pueblo of the Los Angeles land grant. Located on bluffs overlooking the Los Angeles River and immersed in the floodplain, Lincoln Heights river adjacent land became the city's first Industrial Corridor. Aided by slave labor of the Kizh , it later became the home to some of the city's most notable downtown industrialists, who built numerous Victorian homes, some of which have been preserved under
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#1732855054863528-516: The 1910s until World War II, and is the location of the Broadway Theater and Commercial District , the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). With twelve movie palaces located along a six-block stretch of Broadway, it is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States. South Broadway's southern terminus
572-543: The 1930s, also a wave of poor white American residents known as " Okies " from the Great Plains moved into the area. With an increasingly large Mexican American population, Lincoln Heights became a barrio by the 1960s. It and its cross-river neighbor " Little Italy " (what is now Chinatown ) formed the heart of southern California's Italian-American community. In the 21st century, Lincoln Heights has slowly been gentrifying due to Los Angeles' land use policies. Based on
616-668: The 1950s, Broadway was considered the center of the city, where residents went to ornate movie palaces and live theaters, and shopped at major department stores and shops. See the Table of department stores on Broadway and Seventh streets below. The square footage of the four largest department stores alone — Bullock's at 806,000 sq ft (74,900 m ), The Broadway at 577,000 sq ft (53,600 m ), May Co. at over 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m ) and J. W. Robinson's (7th St. at Hope) at 623,700 sq ft (57,940 m ) — totaled over three million square feet,
660-429: The 1970s and 1980s, but Broadway has been the premier shopping destination for working class Latinos for decades. The Broadway Theater District is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The district, which spans from 2nd to 10th street, contains twelve movie palaces . In 2008, the City of Los Angeles launched a $ 40-million campaign to revitalize
704-405: The 2019 Census estimates, Lincoln Heights has a population of 39,916 residents. The neighborhood has a relatively high percentage of both Latino and Asian residents. The breakdown was Latinos , 66.2%; Asians , 23.4%; whites , 7.8%; blacks , 0.4%; and others, 1.0%. Mexico (57.0%) and Vietnam (16.9%) were the most common places of birth for the 55.8% of the residents who were born abroad—which
748-466: The Broadway district, known as the " Bringing Back Broadway " campaign. Some Latino merchants in the district expressed concern that the campaign was an effort to spread the largely Anglo gentrification taking hold in other parts of downtown to an area that has become the city's leading Latino shopping district. A worker at one of the district's bridal shops noted, "On one side, I like the idea. The only thing
792-474: The Buena Vista Street Bridge for a good while, was opened to traffic in late September 1911. For more than 50 years, Broadway from 1st Street to Olympic Boulevard was the main commercial street of Los Angeles, and one of its premier theater and movie palace districts as well. It contains a vast number of historic buildings and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Prior to
836-526: The Hayden Block. This is identified as the first suburban neighborhood shopping district in Los Angeles; it was demolished in the mid-20th century to make way for I-5, the Golden State Freeway . Thereafter, what would be known as North Broadway became a crowded commercial thoroughfare, and by the turn of the 20th century, unfettered industrial construction and numerous rock crushing operations within
880-543: The Mason Theatre, it showed Spanish-language films. Demolished 1955. 145 S. Broadway, site of the C. H. Frost Building , later known as the Haig M. Prince Building . Built 1898, architect John Parkinson , Now the location of the new United States Courthouse built in 2016, taking up the entire block between Broadway, Hill, First and Second. One of several Hellman Buildings across Downtown L.A. — not to be confused with
924-516: The Potomac Block, and combined it with the Bicknell block to create its new store that opened in 1905. After Coulter's moved: The building was demolished in 1953 and is still the site of a parking lot. The Bicknell Block (or Bicknell Building) at 225–229 S. Broadway, with back entrances at 224–228 S. Hill Street. was part of Coulter's from 1905 from 1917. After Coulter's moved in 1917, it housed
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#1732855054863968-459: The city's historic preservation ordinance. In 1863, John Strother Griffin purchased 2,000 acres (810 ha) of ranch land for $ 1,000 and in 1870, Griffin and his nephew, Hancock Johnson, built homes there. In late 1874, they offered an additional 35 acres (14 ha) for sale, subdivided into 65 by 165 foot (20 by 50 m) lots for $ 150 each. The neighborhood was known as "East Los Angeles" between 1873 and 1917 when residents voted to change
1012-472: The effort represents "a shift from the way that our neighborhoods have been planned in Los Angeles," with a new focus on "walkability and transit." Broadway retail is transitioning from a broad mix of stores catering to Hispanic immigrants and a burgeoning sneaker and streetwear retail cluster has emerged from 4th to 9th streets: Sneaker Row. Retail in and around the Eastern Columbia, located at
1056-711: The entire block between Broadway, Hill, First and Second. Just south of the southwest corner was the Mason Theatre , 127 S. Broadway. Opened in 1903 as the Mason Opera House , 1,600 seats. Benjamin Marshall of the Chicago firm Marshall & Wilson designed the building in association with John Parkinson . Marshall is known for designing the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago. Remodeled in 1924 by Meyer & Holler . Later, as
1100-463: The intersection of 9th Street & Broadway, has proliferated in recent years with the opening of Acne Studios , Oak NYC, Aesop , Tanner Goods, BNKR, Austere, A.P.C. , and Urban Outfitters located in the Rialto Theater ( Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 472). All landmarks in geographic order, north to south: This area south to Second Street is now the Civic Center , as well as
1144-720: The main shopping artery - in 1933. The building had been opened in 1928, designed by Meyer and Holler in art deco style for the Hugh A. Marti Co. , which had gone out of business. In 1952, they spent $ 300,000 to expand to 132,000 sq ft (12,300 m), adding 5 escalators, more than the total number of escalators in Long Beach at the time. Walker's Long Beach opened a second Long Beach store at Los Altos Center in 1954 which it sold to The Broadway shortly thereafter in 1956. Walker's sold its Downtown Long Beach store in 1960, but it continued to operate as Walker's until 1978. Walker's opened
1188-441: The name to Lincoln Heights. The area was the first suburban neighborhood of Los Angeles, having been subdivided in 1873. Lincoln Heights was well located to serve as a home for people who worked in the industrial areas lining the Los Angeles River and wanted to live upstream. By the late 1880s a neighborhood commercial district had been built around the intersection of North Broadway and Truman Streets, with business buildings such as
1232-454: The once scenic floodplain made it less appealing for Angelenos of means, who moved out first to the Arroyo Seco area and Hollywood , then (from the 1920s onward) to rapidly developing Mid-Wilshire . As wealthy residents departed, Lincoln Heights became home to a large Italian American population, as well as some Irish American and French American (the 1850s era immigration) residents by
1276-414: The site are: The Poundcake Hill buildings originally backed up to Broadway to their west, and faced New High Street to their east. New High Street (see Sanborn map above) was a north-south street that ran parallel to Broadway, and to Spring Street to its east. As part of the construction of City Hall in the early 1920s, New High Street was removed south of Temple, and Spring Street was realigned more towards
1320-563: The size of American Dream Meadowlands , America's largest mall today. Among dozens of significant buildings from that era are the Bradbury Building , Ace Hotel Los Angeles , and the Los Angeles Examiner building designed by Julia Morgan . Some of the movie theaters on the street fell into disuse and disrepair, some were replaced with parking lots, but many have been repurposed and/or restored. The department stores closed in
1364-403: The south side of Fort Moore Hill (a block north of Temple Street ) at Sand Street (later California Street). In 1890, the name of Fort Street, from 1st Street to 10th Street , was changed to Broadway. The rest of Fort Street, from California Street to 1st Street, was changed to North Broadway. Proposal for opening Broadway through to Buena Vista Street (now North Broadway), and extending
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1408-691: The still-existing Hellman Building at Fourth and Spring — was located here (#138) from 1897 to 1959. The site is now a parking structure, part of the Times Mirror Square complex. The west side of the 200 block of South Broadway had a key place in the retail history of Los Angeles from the 1893 through 1917, as it was home to several prominent early department stores such as the Ville de Paris , Coulter's department store from 1905–1917, and J. W. Robinson's "Boston Dry Goods" store from 1895–1915. All three stores would move to Seventh Street when it became
1452-523: The store in 1950 and closed it in 1956, when Ohrbach's bought it in August 1953. The store underwent a $ 1,000,000 remodel by Welton Becket , architect, and reopened in November 1953 as Ohrbach's-Downtown. Ohrbach's closed its branch and sold the building in 1959. Milliron's Westchester opened on March 17, 1949, designed by prominent retail architect Victor Gruen and cost $ 3,000,000 to build. The grand opening
1496-555: The street south into what was then part of Main Street , below Tenth Street, in order to give a continuous, wide thoroughfare from the southern city limits to the Eastside , was made as early as February 1891. The Broadway Tunnel under Fort Moore Hill was opened in 1901, extending North Broadway to Buena Vista Street at Bellevue Avenue (later Sunset Boulevard , now Cesar Chavez Avenue ). A section of Broadway in South Los Angeles
1540-464: The street's past. A pedestrian-friendly project finished up in December 2014 that widened the sidewalks and replaced the parking lane with planters, chairs and round cafe tables with bright-red umbrellas. The Great Streets Initiative seeks to bolster the street-level health of the city by making several dozen boulevards more hospitable to pedestrians, cyclists and small businesses. Mayor Eric Garcetti said
1584-477: The turn of the 20th century, the city's Central Business District was further north, along Spring and Main streets between the Plaza and 2nd Street. In 1895 J.W. Robinson's opened what was then considered a very large and impressive four-story department store at 239 S. Broadway, signaling of the shift over the next decade and a half of the main shopping district to Broadway below 2nd Street. From around 1905 through
1628-547: The upscale shopping street between 1915 and 1917. Further south on the west side of Broadway, was 207–211, location of the: The YMCA Building was demolished to make way for the: The adjacent Potomac Block and Bicknell Block originally housed prominent retailers of the day, then were joined together in 1906 by Coulter's department store to form a complex, opening it as a new, 157,000 sq ft (14,600 m ) store in June, 1905. The Potomac Block , 213–223 S. Broadway,
1672-444: Was a high percentage for Los Angeles. The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $ 30,579, considered low for the city. Renters occupied 75.9% of the housing stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 24.1%. The average household size of 3.6 people was considered high for Los Angeles. The percentages of never-married men (53.0%) and women (40.6%) were among the county's highest. The 19.5% of families headed by single parents
1716-489: Was a large event and the architecture - with its straight lines combined with large curves at the angles; its triangular window displays jutting out from the store; and the deck to its rooftop parking deck – was considered a landmark in retail architecture. The store was sold shortly afterwards, in June 1950, to The Broadway . Walker's opened their first branch store in Downtown Long Beach at 4th and Pine - Pine being
1760-466: Was considered about average for city neighborhoods. There were 500 veterans, or 2.8% of the population, a low proportion compared to the rest of the city. Lincoln Heights ranks in the 94th-100th percentile of environmentally burdened communities according to CalEnviroScreen 4.0 In 2022, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority 's Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count counted 531 homeless individuals in Lincoln Heights. The Lincoln Heights Branch of
1804-549: Was from 1905 to 1917 known as the B. F. Coulter Building . It was originally developed by lumberyard and mill owner J. M. Griffith. It was designed in 1888 by Block, Curlett and Eisen in Romanesque architectural style and opened on July 17, 1890. Tenants included: It was the first time major retail stores opened on South Broadway, in what would be a shift of the upmarket shopping district from 1890 to 1905 from around First and Spring to South Broadway. In 1904, Coulter's bought
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1848-589: Was from 1958 the location of the State Office Building, (1958-60, architect Anson C. Boyd, razed 2006). It was named the Junipero Serra State Office Building , and this moniker would be transferred to the former Broadway Department Store building at 4th and Broadway when it was opened to replace this building in 1998. It is now the location of the New U.S. Courthouse built in 2016, taking up
1892-527: Was originally called "East Los Angeles" from 1873 to 1917. It is a densely populated, mostly Latino and Asian neighborhood that includes many historic landmarks and was known as "the Bedroom of the Pueblo". Yaangna Village was located on what is now the current day site of Downey Park on Albion and Avenue 17. Lincoln Heights is considered to be one of the oldest neighborhoods outside of La Placita / Sonoratown dating to
1936-483: Was originally named Moneta Avenue until 1923. In 1909, construction on a bridge across the Los Angeles River was begun to connect Buena Vista Street to Downey Avenue, which ran from the river to Mission Road. The names of Buena Vista and Downey were then changed to North Broadway, but not without significant objections from affected residents and landowners. The bridge, which continued to be referred to as
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