Mullen & Bluett was a Los Angeles-based department store specializing in men's clothing.
The Mullen & Bluett building is behind General George Patton in this photo from June 9, 1945.
Broadway looking north from Seventh Street with view of Mullen & Bluett, 1923
Walter P. Story Building (1909), SE corner of 6th, once home to Mullen & Bluett
Mullen & Bluett Miracle Mile store is visible on right side of this 1960s postcard.
Victorian Downtown Los Angeles
The late-Victorian-era Downtown of Los Angeles in 1880 was centered at the southern end of the Los Angeles Plaza area, and over the next two decades, it extended south and west along Main Street, Spring Street, and Broadway towards Third Street. Most of the 19th-century buildings no longer exist, surviving only in the Plaza area or south of Second Street. The rest were demolished to make way for the Civic Center district with City Hall, numerous courthouses, and other municipal, county, state and federal buildings, and Times Mirror Square. This article covers that area, between the Plaza, 3rd St., Los Angeles St., and Broadway, during the period 1880 through the period of demolition (1920sā1950s).
1894 drawing by Bruce Wellington Pierce: portion from Third Street (bottom left) to Plaza (top right). The Red Sandstone Courthouse with its clocktower is prominent at center. At upper right is Los Angeles High School on Fort Moore Hill.
1905 view south on Broadway from north of Temple Street. The Times Mirror printing house in foreground, marked 110 N. Broadway, now site of the Hall of Justice. Towers of the 1888 City Hall on the 200 block of S. Broadway in the distance. Fort Moore Hill, now leveled, at right.
c.1893ā1900, looking east along Third St. from Olive St. on Bunker Hill. 3 buildings stand out from left to right: the 1888 City Hall (Broadway between 2nd/3rd), the Stimson Block (3rd & Spring), and the Bradbury Building (3rd & Broadway)
The Women's Christian Temperance Union Temple and a Temple Street Cable Railway car, 1890