My grandfather, Dr. Kurt Meyer-Radon, was a prominent architect in Germany before and after WWI and, starting in 1923, in Southern California, working with Allied Architects. He was also best friends with Jock Peters, who designed the fabulous interiors of Bullocks Wilshire. Our families have remained friends to this day. There is fantastic book by architectural historian, Christopher Long, "Jock Peters, Architecture and Design: The Varieties of Modernism". Long was given access to the family papers by the late Jock Deswart, Peter's grandson. It is sumptuous.
My sister worked at Bullock’s when she was in high school. My Dad and I would go to the mall after closing to pick her up after her shift. I was actually at Bullock’s the day before the Northridge Earthquake, and the day later, after the earthquake, I realized that I had been in the part of the store that had completely collapsed. That realization gave me the chills. The downtown store was really swanky.
The Bullock's at Stanford Shopping Center is now Norstrom. Once the shopping center had a decade by decade anniversary retrospect. A bunch of models dressed in seventies fashions came on the stage. One said, "I heard that this shopping center is going to get a major new department store!" Another says, "That's a bunch of Bull-ock's."
I worked at Bullock's Mission Valley in the late 80s while attending college near by. Bullock's was upscale, especially the South Coast Plaza, Beverly Center and Sherman Oaks locations. I would have put those three locations up against Saks and Neiman Marcus. When Macy's bought Bullocks, the first 2 years were good with Macy's bringing in more upscale merchandise. Then they rebranded the chain to Macy's and it went down hill after that. Macy's is just a shell of what it used to be and they destroyed Bullock's as well as a lot of department stores around the country.
I worked at fashion square in Scottsdale Arizona. It once had a huge Bullocks space that Dillard's at that time was remodeling. The main store opened into the main mall but on the far side it had a separate space that was leased out to smaller boutique's. Dillard's took over these boutique spaces and integrated into the main store. My question is, was this Bullocks one of the four Bullocks Fashion Square as mentioned in this video?
Thank you for all the history of an amazing, elegant store. Unfortunately, Macy’s doesn’t have the elegance or the quality of clothing Bullocks had. Missing times gone by.
I loved Bullock's Dept. Store! I never got a chance to go to the one in downtown LA (I heard it was a wonderful store)! I shopped at the Bullock's located in La Habra, California. I remember purchasing a few baby items at Bullocks just before my son was born.
Thanks Walt, my earlier narration videos were like this. Hopefully if you watch more of my videos, you will see that it has improved. Thanks for watching
It's been decades since the time when thousands of independent department stores dotted the American landscape. But in the latter half of the 20th Century, large corporate department stores, like Walmart, put thousands of small town department stores out of business! Both the working owners and employees were left jobless, and together with other large corporations, owned by private individuals who do no work at all, sent factories overseas to places where children and desperately poor adults work in the most squalid of conditions for pennies an hour, or used their stolen wealth to weaken unions in the US in order to pressure workers to accept huge pay cuts, leaving American workers no other way to survive other than to take the pitifully low wages and zero-to-no benefits, such as what the typical Walmart employee receives! Interestingly, the justifications for stealing wealth from workers goes directly back to when the owners of large lands excused their claim to own, not just the wealth workers created, but the workers themselves--overt slavery! They, too, bragged about how "generous" they were, "providing homes, clothing and food" to their "servants"! They further claimed to have delivered their slaves from pagan darkness and "provided them with honest work"! Sure, we can be glad that over slavery was outlawed in the US, but the owner class has, ever since then, done all they can to get as close as they can to enslaving the vast majority of Americans by claiming it's OK to own, if not the workers themselves, all the wealth their work creates, only to return a very small portion of it back to them, and they return even less every chance they get! Rick Lannoye, author of www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Slavery-Taking-Workers-Illegal/dp/B08BD9CWLP
I liked Bullocks. I hate Macys. It just isn't as elegant and classy as Bullocks was. Macys has ruined a lot of the old, classy department store chains.
Such fond memories of these old mall department anchors!
My grandfather, Dr. Kurt Meyer-Radon, was a prominent architect in Germany before and after WWI and, starting in 1923, in Southern California, working with Allied Architects. He was also best friends with Jock Peters, who designed the fabulous interiors of Bullocks Wilshire. Our families have remained friends to this day. There is fantastic book by architectural historian, Christopher Long, "Jock Peters, Architecture and Design: The Varieties of Modernism". Long was given access to the family papers by the late Jock Deswart, Peter's grandson. It is sumptuous.
Interesting history this store has.I’m familiar with the chain but had never visited one.Love that Wilshire blvd are deco building!.Thanks Eric!.😎
My sister worked at Bullock’s when she was in high school. My Dad and I would go to the mall after closing to pick her up after her shift. I was actually at Bullock’s the day before the Northridge Earthquake, and the day later, after the earthquake, I realized that I had been in the part of the store that had completely collapsed. That realization gave me the chills. The downtown store was really swanky.
The Bullock's at Stanford Shopping Center is now Norstrom. Once the shopping center had a decade by decade anniversary retrospect. A bunch of models dressed in seventies fashions came on the stage. One said, "I heard that this shopping center is going to get a major new department store!" Another says, "That's a bunch of Bull-ock's."
Bullocks before 1988 was a fantastic shopping experience.
What a fantastic Art Deco style building. Wow. It's hard to believe that's what department stores were like 100 years ago.
very iconic indeed
I worked at Bullock's Mission Valley in the late 80s while attending college near by. Bullock's was upscale, especially the South Coast Plaza, Beverly Center and Sherman Oaks locations. I would have put those three locations up against Saks and Neiman Marcus. When Macy's bought Bullocks, the first 2 years were good with Macy's bringing in more upscale merchandise. Then they rebranded the chain to Macy's and it went down hill after that. Macy's is just a shell of what it used to be and they destroyed Bullock's as well as a lot of department stores around the country.
Thank you for sharing your memories
I worked at fashion square in Scottsdale Arizona. It once had a huge Bullocks space that Dillard's at that time was remodeling. The main store opened into the main mall but on the far side it had a separate space that was leased out to smaller boutique's. Dillard's took over these boutique spaces and integrated into the main store. My question is, was this Bullocks one of the four Bullocks Fashion Square as mentioned in this video?
In the early seventies, I bought a fossil of a trilobite at Bullock's.
Loved Bullock's. Worked there in 80s in cosmetics at DelAmo fashion square. Good ol days
thanks for sharing that nice memory
I remember seeing a commercial for Bullocks on KTLA 5 when I was a kid. Sadly, I never got to go shopping there.
Thank you for all the history of an amazing, elegant store.
Unfortunately, Macy’s doesn’t have the elegance or the quality of clothing Bullocks had.
Missing times gone by.
Macy's has done that to a lot of old brands...I used to love Robinsons-May and then Macy's took over and I never went back.
@@EricCProductions76 True.
I loved Bullock's Dept. Store! I never got a chance to go to the one in downtown LA (I heard it was a wonderful store)! I shopped at the Bullock's located in La Habra, California. I remember purchasing a few baby items at Bullocks just before my son was born.
thanks for sharing those memories
This was my grandmothers favorite store
Hopefully it brought back some nice memories. Thanks for watching.
It must of been your grandfathers worst store after getting the monthly statement in mail. "Just kidding ".🤣
2:26 Is Bullock's Downtown 2:30 is also Bullock's Downtown 2:35 is Bullock's Sherman Oaks 2:39 is Bullocks Wilshire
You sure know your locations. Thanks for watching and hope you subscribed, more videos coming soon
Eric C. Why was the video cut-off in mid-sentence?
I worked at Bullock’s in 1988.
I worked at Bullocks in 1992 very fun place to work at
Thanks for sharing that memory.
Which bullocks
It is currently owned by Southwestern Law School. A scene in the 2004 film was filmed near the entrance,
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You should do Ohrbach”s. & Seibu Department stores
Thanks for the update.
I remember that store Bullock s but I never went inside, I don't think my mother ever went into that department store 🥰♥️👍
My mom was the same way...went to Nordstrom. Thanks for watching.
I work at the Bullock's and Westwood for 9 years
Oh boy I remember
The video cut off early. Need to work on pacing the narration.
Thanks Walt, my earlier narration videos were like this. Hopefully if you watch more of my videos, you will see that it has improved. Thanks for watching
It's been decades since the time when thousands of independent department stores dotted the American landscape. But in the latter half of the 20th Century, large corporate department stores, like Walmart, put thousands of small town department stores out of business!
Both the working owners and employees were left jobless, and together with other large corporations, owned by private individuals who do no work at all, sent factories overseas to places where children and desperately poor adults work in the most squalid of conditions for pennies an hour, or used their stolen wealth to weaken unions in the US in order to pressure workers to accept huge pay cuts, leaving American workers no other way to survive other than to take the pitifully low wages and zero-to-no benefits, such as what the typical Walmart employee receives!
Interestingly, the justifications for stealing wealth from workers goes directly back to when the owners of large lands excused their claim to own, not just the wealth workers created, but the workers themselves--overt slavery! They, too, bragged about how "generous" they were, "providing homes, clothing and food" to their "servants"! They further claimed to have delivered their slaves from pagan darkness and "provided them with honest work"!
Sure, we can be glad that over slavery was outlawed in the US, but the owner class has, ever since then, done all they can to get as close as they can to enslaving the vast majority of Americans by claiming it's OK to own, if not the workers themselves, all the wealth their work creates, only to return a very small portion of it back to them, and they return even less every chance they get!
Rick Lannoye, author of www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Slavery-Taking-Workers-Illegal/dp/B08BD9CWLP
thanks for watching.
So that’s what happened to Bullocks !
Yes I liked it.
thanks for watching
I liked Bullocks. I hate Macys. It just isn't as elegant and classy as Bullocks was. Macys has ruined a lot of the old, classy department store chains.
thanks for watching
Macys is slightly above Sears
@@butterbean3676 I would say just slightly above J.C. Penney too.
Do you remember Lord & Taylor?
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I remember that store never shop there..