[2] The business ran Army and Navy surplus stores in St.

[1] The company opened stores in Los Angeles in 1913 and later moved its headquarters there.

It operated the "Army and Navy Store" at 526 South Main Street then in December 1916 moved to a larger space next door, advertised as the "world's largest Army and navy store", at 530-532 South Main Street starting.

The Broadway store sold men's, women's, and children's clothing, shoes, accessories, furniture, furnishings, and an entire floor was devoted to toys.

[2] In 1950, the company was sold to the Los Angeles business investment firm J. J. Sugarman Co. for an estimated at $3.5 million ($44.3 million in 2023), which was reported by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the larges mercantile sales of its kind in recent years in California."