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Title: Start of excavation for new Bullock's Westwood store
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: The original Bullock's store in Westwood was of Spanish style architecture and served the community from 1932 until 1951. The second store was designed by Welton Becket and opened in 1952.
The start of the excavation for the $100,000 addition to Bullock's Westwood store in Westwood Village. Spectators are watching a power shovel at work. The new addition, which will increase the investment in the store building to $250,000, will contain a tea room, two patios and a beauty studio. It will be ready in August, according to the Janss Investment Co., owners of the building. Photograph dated June 8, 1935.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00058853
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3015
CARL0000062852
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22629
Subject: Bullock's (Department store)
Department stores--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Stores & shops--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Architecture--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)--Spanish influences
Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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