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2. Ray-Ban - Wikipedia

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   Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.

3. White Front - Wikipedia

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   In 1929, the company was founded and opened its first store at 7651 S. Central Avenue in Florence, South Los Angeles [3] [4] In 1950 it expanded this store. In a 1950 advertisement, the company tongue-in-cheek explained that its lone location was in a "low rent area". [5] Its second store opened in October 1957 at 16040 Sherman Way in Van Nuys. [6]

4. Luxottica - Wikipedia

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   Luxottica Group S.p.A. is an Italian eyewear conglomerate based in Milan. As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes, and retails its eyewear brands all through its own subsidiaries. The company, presently organized as a subsidiary of EssilorLuxottica which formed when the Italian conglomerate merged with ...

5. The Akron - Wikipedia

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   The Akron. Akron Stores or The Akron was a Southern California –based imported goods and home decorating department store retail chain established in 1947 and was known to carry unusual merchandise, mostly imports. [1] The chain had over 24 stores throughout Southern California from San Diego to San Francisco before it was forced to close in ...

6. Ray-Ban Wayfarer - Wikipedia

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   1950s singer Buddy Holly helped popularise Wayfarers. Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and eyeglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Made popular in the 1950s and 1960s by music and film icons such as Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison and James Dean, Wayfarers almost became discontinued in the 1970s, before a major resurgence was created in the 1980s through massive product placements.

7. Bullock's - Wikipedia

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   Federated Department Stores (1994-1995) Bullock's was a chain of full-line department stores from 1907 through 1995, headquartered in Los Angeles, growing to operate across California, Arizona and Nevada. Bullock's also operated as many as seven more upscale Bullocks Wilshire specialty department stores across Southern California.