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Title: Shopping for groceries at Gemco
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1985
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
In business from 1959 to 1986, Gemco was a large retail chain which sold groceries, clothing, and general use items. After Gemco was liquidated, some of the west coast locations were reopened as Target stores.
A mother shops with her two sons in a Gemco store located in an unidentified Southern California city.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094689
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b095_f2_i29
CARL0005039003
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29966
Subject: Gemco (Firm)
Grocery stores--California, Southern
Bakeries--California, Southern
Department stores--California, Southern
Chain stores--California, Southern
Mothers and sons--California, Southern
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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