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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated November 8, 1956 reads, "New $2,500,000 Shopping Bag Food stores enterprise gets under way with ground breaking on 10-acre site. From left are Kirk Fraser, San Fernando Chamber of Commerce; W. F. Parker and H. J. Smith, Woolworth Company; Harry E. Pierson, W. T. Grant Company; Los Angeles City Councilman Everett Burkhalter; Walter G. Smith, president; Mrs. Marie Smith, and W. R. Hayden, president of Shopping Bag Food Stores." The ground breaking ceremony was for the Sylmar Square Shopping Center located at the corner of Foothill Boulevard and Sayre Street in Sylmar.
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Burkhalter, Everett G.--(Everett Glen),--1897-1975 Sylmar Square Shopping Center (Los Angeles, Calif.) Ground breaking ceremonies--California--Sylmar (Los Angeles) Signs and signboards--California--Sylmar (Los Angeles) City council members--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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