Ville de Paris (department store)

Ville de Paris was a department store in Downtown Los Angeles from 1893 through 1919.

A. Fusenot's Ville de Paris Los Angeles store should not be confused with the unrelated City of Paris store operating in Los Angeles through 1897 operated by Eugene Meyer & Co., then by Stern, Cahn & Loeb; nor with the much more famous City of Paris Dry Goods Co. of San Francisco.

After learning the business, he founded the Ville de Paris in Los Angeles in 1893.

In the latter half of 1905, the store relocated to a space 32 times larger, (96,000 square feet (8,900 m2)), formerly the premises of Coulter's, a block away in the Homer Laughlin Building, at 317–325 S. Broadway, extending all the way back through to 314–322 Hill Street.

[5] In 1915, Fusenot sold his business to the owners of The Emporium in San Francisco,[5] and in 1917 the Ville de Paris removed to 7th and Olive Streets, after J. W. Robinson's opened their flagship store on 7th Street, many blocks to the west of Broadway.

Ville de Paris department store, Broadway btw. 2nd/3rd, 1901. Now a parking lot.
Ville de Paris department store, Homer Laughlin Building on Broadway btw. 3rd/4th. Now Grand Central Market , probably late 1905
Ville de Paris department store, Seventh & Olive, 1916
New Ville de Paris department store on Seventh Street, sketch from November 1918
Seventh Street looking west from Broadway, 1917. Bullocks building is at the far right. B. H. Dyas sporting goods store is visible right and Ville de Paris, before Dyas bought it, visible left.