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Originally Posted by WS1911
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Robinson's ca. 1917, not long after opening
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We shopped downtown when I was a kid and in Hollywood, as well as the Miracle Mile, of course, although my mother actively disliked anything pre-war (especially our house).
She wouldn't have cared if it was a Ming vase, she thought everything pre-war should be swept away.
Her favorite store was the glamorous Beverly Hills Robinson's. A better match between store and customer has never existed:
http://departmentstoremuseum.blogspo...s-angeles.html
(Wm Pereira, 1952 - Interiors by Raymond Loewy - Landscaping by Florence Yoch)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...g-tribute.html
I seem to recall that at the grand opening, or maybe it was a later promotion, bubble machines were placed on the entrance canopies so one entered the store
surrounded by bubbles scented with
Joy, "the world's most expensive perfume". What a place.