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Originally Posted by BifRayRock
JJ Newberrys next door to JW Woolworth & Co., Westwood, early '50s(?):
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August 2, 1939 "new" entrance to the J. J. Newberry & Co. store at 311 West Fifth Street.
August 2, 1939 (A lunch counter to rival Woolworths 431 S. Broadway? http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=938)
New and improved - JJ Newberrys August 2, 1949. Grand re-opening 5th and Broadway.
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Distantly related to J.J.Newberrys is its cousin, Britt's Department Store.
Newberrys had a store located on Third Street across from the Farmer's Market possibly in the '50s and '60s. 6314 W 3rd Street. According to the '73 Directory, next door at 6310 W. 3rd Street was Britts Department Store. http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...rch_doc=brittsBritts was operated by parent company, JJ Newberry & Co. This building is recognizable today as "KMart." (JJNewberry once worked for Kresge, from which sprang KMArt.)
There is some slight difference of opinion regarding the history of this building since two people claiming familiarity with the building 30 years ago volunteered that the same building was operated as a private Hospital. As evidence, they claimed that the top floor "allegedly" retains the look of a large maternity ward, including related- equipment(?). Having never seen the place, I have no idea if any of this true.
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On a side note, east of the Britts/KMart building is the Ross Clothing Store which gained notoriety in 1984 for having a methane powered parking lot. It is interesting to note that the store started out, or at least once was a Market Basket Grocery Store. (See http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...=market+basket )
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For anyone familiar with the area, I vaguely remember the Whole Foods Store to have been a Market Basket too, or was it a Mayfair, or Alpha Beta or even Safeway? Someone peering over my shoulder reminds me that there was a Loehmann's Clothing Store further east on the south side of Third Street (across from the Gilmore DriveIn?). But before it was a clothing store, was it not a Steakhouse or Italian restaurant that had its fair share of interesting clientele? Or perhaps I am confusing this with someplace else.
For MR, isn't there a glimpse of the Gilmore DriveIn in AH?
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Wow! Instant nostalgia. Have been shopping at 3rd & Fairfax since the late '50s (was but a wee bairn at the time) & remember several things about BOTH
shopping areas. The one to the east (where the Ross is today) was the Park LaBrea Shopping Center, and the supermarket was indeed a Market Basket. The center had basic service businesses: dry cleaners, drug store, etc. The center to the west (where Whole Foods is now) was a charming place known as the Town & Country Center until 1961 or '62. (There's a center in Palo Alto almost identical to it - very woodsy, shingled bungalow style buildings).
When the new shopping area was built, the anchor was a Sav-On (now CVS) drugstore on the Fairfax end. The supermarket I recall was a Safeway, and there was a - I think - Zody's or White Front where the KMart is now. The center area (extends south about half a block) had a grease pit known as Fisher's Burgers, much loved by Fairfax High students.
Oh - about the Lohman's -- you're right, it was a restaurant in its original form, a place called Dublin's Food & Fun (I still have a matchbook somewhere). The building was a sort of rounded mid-century mod thing.
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Here is the destruction of the old federal post office at Temple and Spring in 1937.
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The fact that Town & Country can be listed as Shops, Village, Stores, Stalls and and Mall doesn't make things any easier. 
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