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| Industry | Retail |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1860s (exact year uncertain) |
| Headquarters | California |
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Desmond's was a Los Angeles–based department store, during its existence second only to Harris & Frank as the oldest Los Angeles retail chain, founded in the 1860s as a hat shop by Daniel Desmond[1] at Los Angeles and Commercial streets. The chain as a whole went out of business in 1981[2] but Desmond's, Inc. continued as a company that went in to other chains to liquidate them. Desmond's stores in Northridge and West Covina were liquidated only in 1986 and survived in Palm Springs into the first years of the 21st century.[3]
- ^ Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXX, Number 113, 25 January 1903
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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