Desmond's (department store)

Desmond's Department Store
IndustryRetail
Founded1862
HeadquartersCalifornia
Former Desmond's Miracle Mile store on Wilshire Blvd.
Desmond's Westwood store in 1925

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 1862 as a hat shop by Daniel Desmond[1] near the Los Angeles Plaza.[2] The chain as a whole went out of business in 1981[3] 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.[4]

  1. ^ Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXX, Number 113, 25 January 1903
  2. ^ "13 Mar 1953, 29 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved on 16 April 2019.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference vincent was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Vacant Desmond's Palm Springs 2007". The Desert Sun. 9 March 2007. p. 1.