The Butler Brothers Department Stores were a chain of department stores that opened in the 1950s.
Merchandising company Butler Brothers built 2 complete department stores in Ohio and 4 in Greater Los Angeles,[1] and one each in San Francisco and Seattle.
[2] In the 1960s the Los Angeles buying office and plant was at 3030 South Atlantic Boulevard in Vernon, an industrial suburb of Southeast Los Angeles County.
[11][12] The Butler Brothers Department Stores should not be confused with Federated Stores, also under Butler Brothers, which started c. 1931 which were ca.
1400 independently owned and operated department stores based on a common operating model and selling goods acquired through the Butler Brothers wholesale network.