On this sad day for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, a brief tribute to its time in Los Angeles:
Los Angeles Times, May 2, 1950
USC Digital Library
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...1346/CHS-43866
Larchmont Boulevard
http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogsp...acific-in.html
Gayley & Lindbrook, Westwood. Demolished.
http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogsp...acific-in.html
Wilshire & Cochran. This building's facade (if not the whole building) still stands, now incorporated into a Staples store that has a Guggenheimesque addition to its left.
LAPL
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00082/00082758.jpg
East Foothill & Rosemead Blvd, Pasadena. Grand Opening, April 1959
California State Library
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...2V4U3VU4LH.jpg
Vernon
USC Digital Library
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...1385/CHS-41356
One we've seen here before: Sunset & Fairfax
LAPL
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics27/00048175.jpg
Per the LAPL: "A train of the L.A. Junction Railway Co. is stopped in front of the warehouse of the Great Atlantic
and Pacific Tea Co., importers of tea. Photo dated: January 7, 1932."
Read the complete L.A. A&P story here:
http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogsp...acific-in.html
And here is all the rest you could possibly want to know about it:
http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=494
http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=872