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Robert's was a department store based in Long Beach, California. The chain began when Morris Burman opened the first store in East Los Angeles, California, East Los Angeles. In 1950, Burman bought an existing store in North Long Beach at 5350 Long Beach Boulevard, and opened it as the Jones Department Store. In 1951, they opened Robert's at 16630 Bellflower Boulevard in Bellflower, California, Bellflower. History Locations The company had branches in the following areas: *Bellflower, 16630 Bellflower Boulevard *Bixby Knolls, Long Beach, 4450 Atlantic Avenue - opened December 1967, 52,000 sq. ft., 4450 Atlantic Avenue, closed in 1994, empty for 15 years, razed only in 2009 to make way for a new Marshalls. The loss of the store was long symbolic of the decline of Bixby Knolls as a retail center *Bellflower, California, Bellflower, 16630 Bellflower Boulevard *Burbank, California, Burbank (Burcal), 240 North Golden Mall *East Los Angeles, California, East Los Angeles, 4702/477 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Store
A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store under one roof, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic appearance in the middle of the 19th century, and permanently reshaped shopping habits, and the definition of service and luxury. Similar developments were under way in London (with Whiteleys), in Paris () and in New York City ( Stewart's). Today, departments often include the following: clothing, cosmetics, do it yourself, furniture, gardening, hardware, home appliances, houseware, paint, sporting goods, toiletries, and toys. Additionally, other lines of products such as food, books, jewellery, electronics, stationery, photographic equipment, baby products, and products for pets are sometimes included. Customers generally check out near the front of the store in discount department stores, while high-end traditional d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California County Routes In Zone N
There are 9 routes assigned to the "N" zone of the California Route Marker Program, which designates county routes in California. The "N" zone includes county highways lying in Los Angeles and Orange counties. N1 County Route N1 (CR N1) is a county highway in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It runs from State Route 1 in Malibu along Malibu Canyon Road through the Santa Monica Mountains. After crossing Piuma Road near the top of the mountain, the name changes to Las Virgenes Road where it continues another to US 101 in Calabasas (Google Maps and other commercially produced maps however may show CR N1 continuing north along Las Virgenes Road from US 101 to the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve). Locals refer to the route as a whole as Malibu Canyon. This route was defined in 1963. CR N1 is part of the State Scenic Highway System in Los Angeles County. Major landmarks along the route include Pepperdine University on the west side of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastland Center (California)
Eastland Center (formerly Westfield Shoppingtown Eastland, Westfield Eastland and Eastland Shopping Center) is a shopping center in West Covina, California, managed by Pine Tree, LLC. Westfield America, Inc., a precursor to Westfield Group, acquired the shopping center in 1998 and renamed it "Westfield Shoppingtown Eastland", dropping the "Shoppingtown" name in June 2005. The department store-anchored regional shopping mall was converted to a power center as the nearby Plaza West Covina became the dominant area center. It was once anchored by a five-story May Company department store, where the Target now stands. The power center is two levels, with parking for the lower level on the south side of the center and parking for the upper level on the north side. Corridors connect both the upper and lower levels. History Eastland Center was designed by architect Albert C. Martin and opened in 1957 as an outdoor mall along the San Bernardino Freeway ( U.S. Route 60 and U.S. Rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Covina, California
West Covina is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located east of downtown Los Angeles in the eastern San Gabriel Valley, it is part of Greater Los Angeles Area, Greater Los Angeles. The population for the city was 109,501 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. West Covina is bordered by Covina, California, Covina to the northeast, Baldwin Park, California, Baldwin Park and Irwindale, California, Irwindale to the northwest, La Puente, California, La Puente and Valinda, California, Valinda to the southwest, City of Industry, California, Industry to the south, Ramona, California (Los Angeles County), Ramona to the east, and Walnut, California, Walnut to the southeast. History The Tongva were the earliest inhabitants of the San Gabriel Valley. Governor Pío Pico sold much of the land of West Covina to John Rowland and William Workman in 1845. The first permanent settlers arrived in West Covina in 1905. Most famous among them were William Payne, Bob D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Fe Springs Shopping Center
Santa Fe Springs, California has been home to two regional malls and one open-air shopping center, anchored by department stores. Today, all three operate as conventional open-air shopping centers. Santa Fe Springs Mall / Gateway Plaza Santa Fe Springs Mall was a regional mall built in 1985, which included a Sears (relocated to Whittwood Mall in 1996) and an 8-screen Mann multicinema. It is now the site of the Gateway Plaza power center, anchored by Target, Ross Dress for Less (formerly OfficeMax and Marshalls), El Super, and Walmart. The shopping center is located at the intersection of Telegraph Road and Carmenita Road. Whittier Downs / Santa Fe Springs Marketplace Whittier Downs Shopping Center was a shopping center that served the community of West Whittier-Los Nietos, California from the 1950s through the 1980s, anchored by JCPenney. The center is at Washington and Norwalk boulevards and within the city limits of Santa Fe Springs, despite the shopping center's name a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Fe Springs, California
Santa Fe Springs (''Santa Fe'', Spanish for "Holy Faith") is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is one of the Gateway Cities of southeast Los Angeles County. The population was 19,219 at the 2020 census, up from 16,223 at the 2010 census. Etymology Santa Fe Springs, which is Spanish for "holy faith," was first applied to mineral springs purchased by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from Dr. James E. Fulton in 1886. Geography Santa Fe Springs is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of . of it is land and of it (0.45%) is water. It is bordered by the unincorporated West Whittier-Los Nietos to the north, Pico Rivera to the northwest, Downey to the west, Norwalk to the southwest, Cerritos to the south, La Mirada and the unincorporated South Whittier to the east, and Whittier to the northeast. History Junípero Serra had started some missions in this area, especially the San Gabriel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honer Plaza
Honer Plaza, now the Bristol Marketplace, at 17th and Bristol streets in northwestern Santa Ana, California, was one of the first shopping centers in Orange County, California and one of the busiest in the county in its early days. Plans were announced for its construction in 1953 and it opened in 1958, starting with a Ralphs supermarket. Other anchor tenants over the 1950s-1980s included Montgomery Ward (which opened on August 11, 1960 and closed along with the entire chain due to bankruptcy in early 2001), Long Beach-based Robert's department store, Nahas department store, and J. J. Newberry. By the 1980s, the center was outdated in design — two rows of stores with a small pedestrian mall in the center, surrounded by acres of parking — and had lost business to more modern malls including Fashion Square/MainPlace and The City Shopping Center in Orange. The site continues — without the pedestrian walkway lined with shops, thus effectively now a large strip mall — cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Ana, California
Santa Ana (Spanish language, Spanish for ) is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, California, United States. Located in the Greater Los Angeles region of Southern California, the city's population was 310,227 at the 2020 census. As of 2023, Santa Ana is the third most populous city in Orange County (after Anaheim, California, Anaheim and Irvine, California, Irvine), the List of largest cities in California by population, 14th-most populous city in California, and the List of United States cities by population, 65th most populous city in the United States. Santa Ana is a major regional economic and cultural hub for the Orange Coast. In 1810, the Spanish governor of California granted Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana to José Antonio Yorba. Following the Mexican War of Independence, the Yorba family ranchos of California, rancho was enlarged, becoming one of the largest and most valuable in the region and home to a diverse Californio community. Following the American Conqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomona Valley Center
Indian Hill Village is a former shopping mall in Pomona, California. It has been redeveloped into a multi-use retail, commercial, and educational facility and is now known as The Village @ Indian Hill, comprising on . History The original, open-air mall was built in the mid-1950s as Pomona Valley Center. Its anchor store, a Sears, had been dedicated in November 1954. Inline stores included Long's Drugs, F.C. Nash, and J.J. Newberry. Between 1967 and 1969, the mall was expanded westward. A Zody's discount store opened in June 1969 as the center's second anchor. One year later, the F.C. Nash store was sold to Roberts Department Store. In 1974, the mall was renamed Indian Hill Village, a name the mall owners chose in a contest. In 1979, there were 19 stores and a total taxable sales of $32 million, ranking 39th out of 52 regional shopping centers A shopping center in American English, shopping centre in Commonwealth English (see spelling differences), shopping comple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomona, California
Pomona ( ) is a city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. Pomona is located in the Pomona Valley, between the Inland Empire and the San Gabriel Valley. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city's population was 151,713. The main campus of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, also known as Cal Poly Pomona, lies partially within Pomona's city limits, with the rest being located in the neighboring unincorporated community of Ramona, Los Angeles County, California, Ramona. History Beginnings to 1880 The Tongva were the first inhabitants of the area. The city is named after Pomona (mythology), Pomona, the ancient Roman goddess of fruit. For horticulturist Solomon Gates, "Pomona" was the winning entry in a contest to name the city in 1875, before anyone had ever planted a fruit tree there. The city was first settled by Ricardo Véjar and Ygnacio Palomares in the 1830s when California and much of the now-American Southwest were part of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California State Route 19
State Route 19 (SR 19) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California, running along Lakewood Boulevard and Rosemead Boulevard in the Los Angeles area. An additional "hidden" state highway, State Route 164 (SR 164), is also signed as part of SR 19, despite having a legal description separate from Route 19. The combined route is a north–south four-to-eight lane suburban roadway, lying east of the Long Beach Freeway (Interstate 710) and west of the San Gabriel River Freeway ( Interstate 605), and connecting the eastern parts of Long Beach and Pasadena via the Whittier Narrows. Under their legal descriptions, SR 19 runs north to Gallatin Road in Pico Rivera, then SR 164 goes from Gallatin Road to Pasadena. Since 1998, several pieces have been relinquished to local governments, and more transfers are authorized by state law. Route description Locals generally refer to the combined SR 19/164 route as either Lakewood Boulevard or Rosemead Boulevard, not by its numerica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pico Rivera, California
Pico Rivera is a city located in southeastern Los Angeles County, California. The city is situated approximately southeast of downtown Los Angeles, on the eastern edge of the Los Angeles basin, and on the southern edge of the area known as the San Gabriel Valley. As of the 2020 United States census, the city has a population of 62,088. Pico Rivera is bordered by Montebello to the west, Downey to the south, Santa Fe Springs to the southeast, and Whittier to the east. Northrop Grumman's Advanced Systems Division developed the B-2 Spirit bomber here. History Situated on a rich alluvial plain between the Rio Hondo and the San Gabriel River, Pico Rivera was originally two unincorporated agricultural communities: Pico (named for Pío Pico, the last Mexican governor of California and located in the northern portion of what is now Pico Rivera) and Rivera (the Spanish word for "riverbank", located in the southern portion). By the end of the 19th century, the Atchison, Topek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
