Post #452374 by Mai Tai on Thu, May 7, 2009 3:18 PM

On 2009-05-06 16:39, Tiki Shaker wrote:
I'm pretty sure Macy's didn't come to SoCal till the 80s.

I used to work for Macy's corporate once upon a time, and was under the same impression. Macy's acquired Bullocks, I. Magnin's, and others, but let them run under their own names for a while, yet most of the merchandising and inventory control for those branches was done at Macy's buying offices. I worked on consolidating all of the different divisions and companies that Macy's owned throughout California, Texas, and other states west of the Mississippi, which all had their own various accounting and inventory control systems, and merged them into one big corporate division with San Francisco as their headquarters (a team identical to the team I was in did the exact same thing for everything east of the Mississippi and made NY their headquarters).

But that doesn't mean that there wasn't some non-Bullocks offshoot that Macy's tried out in Southern California way back in the day. And either way, what really matters is that those are some super cool photos, Will!