tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266566846399659219.post261342248279995907..comments2024-01-16T00:30:02.493-05:00Comments on That's the Press, Baby: RandomnessDavisullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871644412923946894noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266566846399659219.post-42998458064814309402008-10-21T10:41:00.000-04:002008-10-21T10:41:00.000-04:00Ah, the May Co. store on the Miracle Mile. A beaut...Ah, the May Co. store on the Miracle Mile. A beautiful building, though it loses something without the giant MAY CO letters lining the corner. <BR/><BR/>After Bullock's built Bullock's Wilshire there was a rush by the downtown L.A. stores to move closer to the affluent west side -- just as had happened in New York with stores moving uptown, but based on car commuting rather than subways.<BR/><BR/>The Broadway bought the Hollywood store of B.H. Dyas Co.-Ville de Paris, but the big move was when Coulter Dry Goods Co. abandoned downtown L.A. for the building at 5600 Wilshire left adrift by Myer Siegal Co., a woman's clothing store that tried to expand into a full-line department store in the 1930s. <BR/><BR/>Coulter's was L.A.'s oldest department store and mid-Wilshire and beyond looked very attractive, so in the early 1940s, just before the war would have stopped it, May Co. built the store referred to. Tom May of the St. Louis-based family lived in Beverly Hills and oversaw the company's expansion in the Southland.<BR/><BR/>Unlike most cities, almost all of L.A.'s historic department store buildings are still there -- Bullock's, Broadway, Robinson's, May Co., Eastern-Columbia, Coulter's, and Bullock's Wilshire and the May Co. store on the Miracle Mile.Davisullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871644412923946894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266566846399659219.post-85867683388064098582008-10-18T19:59:00.000-04:002008-10-18T19:59:00.000-04:00You might want to check out this post about a form...You might want to check out this post about a former May Company store, now a poorly named condo development, on the Fritinancy blog:<BR/><BR/>http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2008/10/le-mishmash.html<BR/><BR/>-- Barbara Phillips LongAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com