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The Akron (Los Angeles), a Southern California-based "eclectic" department store chain that had specialized in carrying imported goods and unusual items such as parking meters and live Mexican monkeys, and which had stores as far north as San Francisco and far south as San Diego before it was forced to close its stores in 1985 [18] [19] [20]
The Studio Stores were a victim of the AOL-Time Warner merger, and shuttered operations in 2001. [71] Yellow Front Stores – Founded in the 1950s as an army surplus store, Yellow Front transitioned to become a camping gear retailer before going bankrupt in 1990.
Fry's Electronics was an American big-box store chain. It was headquartered in San Jose, California , in Silicon Valley . Fry's retailed software , consumer electronics , household appliances, cosmetics , tools, toys, accessories, magazines, technical books, snack foods, electronic components, and computer hardware.
Nearly a year after AI-generated nude images of high school girls upended a community in southern Spain, a juvenile court this summer sentenced 15 of their classmates to a year of probation. Now a ...
In 2011, president of the San Jose chapter Jeffrey Pettigrew, [120] was shot four times in the back on September 23, 2011, at a casino in Sparks, Nevada. Two California members of the Vagos motorcycle club at the crime scene were also shot but survived. Pettigrew was in Sparks for 'Street Vibrations', a long-running motorcycle festival in the ...
The Good Guys, Inc., was an American chain of consumer electronics retail stores with 71 stores in California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. The company was headquartered in Brisbane, California in the Dakin Building in the early 1990s and subsequently in Alameda, California until it was bought in late 2003 by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim ...
The Music of the Spheres World Tour is the ongoing eighth concert tour undertaken by British rock band Coldplay.Announced on 14 October 2021, it is being staged to support their ninth (Music of the Spheres, 2021) and tenth (Moon Music, 2024) studio albums, with performances also marking their return to live entertainment following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Quarterdeck and Forecastle: 12 × 6-pounders. San José was a 64-gun, three-masted galleon of the Spanish Armada de la Guardia de la Carrera de las Indias. It was launched in 1698 [ 2] and sank in battle off Barú Island, just south of Cartagena, Colombia, in 1708, while laden with gold, silver and emeralds worth about US$17 billion as of 2023.