Mark and I were going through my shed to clean it out last year. We made progress, but there's still much to do and we should continue when it gets warmer. These are the small things we found.
A sled.
A small candle holder.
This candle set from Macy's/Bullocks is a classic.
Some history below:
Bullocks was a chain of department stores, headquartered in Los Angeles from 1907 through 1995 and operated across California, Arizona and Nevada. Bullocks Wilshire was an upscale version of the store operated across Southern California.
No longer a store, the Art Deco building is on The U.S. National Registry of Historic Places.
There was also a Bullocks in Westwood, home to UCLA, where I worked for over 30 years. My friends and I delighted in going for tea and finger sandwiches at Bullocks on our lunch hour. The dining room was elegant, the service was wonderful, the tea and sandwiches perfect.
I'm not as familiar with Macy's but we all know of their flagship store in New York City and their Thanksgiving Day parade.
I checked and found that there are currently three Macy's in Los Angles, although I have no memory of them at all, it's likely I visited one of them during my many years living in L.A.
So now I guess that Bullocks was extirpated as well.
Sorry, I just felt a need to show off this new word I recently learned: extirpate. This will be the end of that, though, as I really don't like that word, particularly as it relates to animals.
N.B.
For those of you who don't know, English is my second language and I'm always happy to add a new word to my vocabulary.
