I’m a Native Angeleno who didn’t know much about Southwestern Law School, but this restoration effort puts it on the map for me. Thank you for highlighting and celebrating the preservation work in a town where far too many historic properties are razed.
I remember this place, it was so beautiful. God bless my gay uncle who loved department stores and took me to shop at these palaces: Bullocks, The Broadway, Robinson’s, Buffums, May Co., Silverwoods, Or’Bachs, I.Magnin. Bless the sales people-they loved their jobs and were classy professionals.
I'm sending a prayer to Huell Howser thanking him for documenting Bullock's Wilshire and it's employees. The respect and graciousness of his interviewing manner honored the memories of my father, Rudolph Galindo and his thirty- eight years of employment at this Store. The ending interview with the elevator operator was a heavenly shout out to my father who first started his employment at Bullock's as an elevator operator in 1940's.
I went to UA-cam to find the interview with the Elevator Man, and I saw your comment. I always thought he must have been one of the the nicest people on this rock.Not a religious person, but Bless You Huell Howser and the Elevator Man!
It was wonderful to me to watch this tour of a place with so much history and be able to look back at how things once were, and the endearment to preserve that past. My most favorite part was listening and watching Huell draw such poignant and sense deep sense of loss from the patrons and staff on closing day. I was a fan of Huell and his series. RIP
The Superman line was "faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound." Thanks, KCET, for making all the HH series available. Huel Howser was the best of California's Gold.
Bullock's was never a department store. It was a Speciality Store, like Bergdorf Goodman, B. Altman & Co.,, and Sak's Fifth Avenue. The first Chanel shop in California was at Bullock's. There's a group called the Friends of Bullock's Wilshire and once a year, usually in July, for one day they open the building for touring and the tea room serves lunch using original recipes.
I was in this store back in about 1986 and it was impressive. I am sad that i never went up to the tea room. The saddest day for this store was when it was looted during the riots in 1992. It provided a perfect excuse for Macy's to close it.
The close captioning of the elevator man are just hilarious.😅 28:18 it has nothing to do with what he’s saying. One of the highlights of this segment. 😂
My Grandmother managed the Tea Room for some time - I kept hoping I'd see her in that segment of the show. Anyway, I used to go there a lot when I was kid because I'd get her employee discount (otherwise the Tea Room was a bit too pricey for me lol). She'd always give me very nice clothes from there for Christmas too. I loved Bullocks Wilshire and was really sad when it closed. Robinsons down at Wilshire and Santa Monica was very nice as well, way better than any other store except Bullocks Wilshire, but it closed too. They don't make stores like those anymore :-(
Amazing to see it last thru 93❣️How Grand💎 Great tour on last day. Beautiful Tea room. Bring it back. Progress…. Killing it. Just sad to see it degraded for a library…. Boo hoo 😢
Thank you, KCET, for posting this gem of an episode! I've never seen this until now. It's been a dream of mine to visit Bullocks Wilshire but, more importantly, to see what it looked like in its heyday as an actual store. Talk about lavish and sumptuous architecture. It is, without a doubt, THE best art deco monument in Los Angeles. I hope they still do tours when the pandemic is over, because I HAVE to see it with my own eyes!
As a longtime Angeleno, I was heartbroken by the Bullocks-Wiltshire closing...but it's rebirth as this sensitively restored interior to serve as law library for the lawyers of tomorrow has truly been a comfort to me and no doubt many others. Thanks for this film!
When our tour guide lit up like a Christmas tree when talking about Mae West and Hollywood, I beamed in gratitude for the information she knew that should have determined our glorious future from the moments to which she referred. She just *knows* the value of the cravings of the people who desire the Bullocks-Wilshire for every individual who shares the want of a past that should have survived beyond its heyday.
I never thought I was going to watch the entire show but it’s missing the “cute & classy ladies” from the Bullock’s Tea Room that are no longer there. Beautiful almost like stepping back in time .. Déjà vu.
I grew up in Texas and, although I have lived in L. A. for many years, I have never been inside Bullocks Wilshire; it closed years before I moved here. Fascinating documentary; the store seems to me to have been much like Neiman-Marcus in Dallas, which had its restaurant on the sixth floor, when Stanley Marcus still ran the company.
Gorgeous architecture and history and now gone. It's now Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Why didn't this gem become a museum? Huell and the guide were outstanding. She really knows the history and explains it both in detail and makes it come alive.
The Tea Room was so gorgeous. Such a travesty to have taken it away from Los Angeles. Everyone there is devastated. Notice how everyone dressed up to go to Bullock's. The workers and customers are just traumatized.
They laid every accolade on this store but if it was so great it would still be open. Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit which was the granddaddy of department stores met the same fate...suburban sprawl and changing shopping tastes. It met the wrecking ball...
Unbelievable that Bullock's kept the entire building as decorated and designed originally. In a world where every few years department stores are changed and redecorated or just painted all white or gray, it is amazing that it had survived as long as it did. So depressing that places like Bullock's no longer exist in most of the Country. Even Nashville TN used to have 3 great hometown department stores that were extremely elegant. They are gone now along with the buildings. Such a travesty.
That lady with the polka dot scarf hit the nail on the head. And that gentleman...Yes, "Our" whole world is crumbling. Our Civilization is going down. So sad to see these genteel people seem so helpless in the face of the evil powers that be. The same thing happened with "Eatons" Department Store" in Canada and other great landmarks as well. When a part of our culture and traditon is ripped away from us, so is a piece of our heart and soul. Once we lose all that is dear and familiar...all that we love and cherish, we go into a deep culture shock....a form of spiritual death. Satan wants a soulless society of slaves that he can control...a "New Dark Age" where there is no wondrous beauty or truth to lift our hearts in peace and joy. Our enemies have chosen to follow him down the path to darkness and dispair...to break the chord that binds us and blind us to the light...to destroy the true meaning of love and sacrifice...the promise of Eternal Life that awaits all those who believe in the Word of God...who have not lost faith in His grand design...His infinite Wisdom and Glory. We can choose to believe in miracles or go down into the dust. As time goes on, it is not only the place but the character of the people that will change. Our world will grow colder and colder everyday. The Bible warned us of this. Will we now bow down to the "Luciferians"? Have the rebels become so subservient and knumb that we have lost the will to fight? For the sake of our children, we must NEVER forget. We still have a God-given choice. We still have the power to RISE and take it all back. When we put on the armour of Christ, nothing can stop us or stand in our way. + FREEDOM AND TRUTH OR PERISH + DEUS VULT!
I grew up there. Bullocks was walking distance. It is hard to imagine that LA/Hollywood was an elegant Continental American city. Today it is such a 3rd world shithole you can't even feel or think you're in the USA
Jim Thompson, As much as I hate correcting people, I have to say that Bullocks Wilshire cannot properly be compared with Walmart-not by a long shot. The proper comparison to contemporary stores would be to places like Saks or Nordstrom. You don’t see Walmart customers in those places, and well-heeled people wouldn’t be caught dead at a Walmart.
@@danielpierce6327, Wow! I’d never heard of this place before your comment, having spent my entire life on either the east or west coast. I just looked it up. I may have a new place to do some online shopping. Thanks!
This information can be easily found, but Macy’s (the original ultimate first owner) was found to be pilfering all the precious objects contained within this historic building. Thankfully, they were convinced to return most of the items. It’s sad hearing of the abject neglect that Macy’s inflicted upon this building. Typical corporate greed at its finest.
I feel you I wished I was alive around the 1920 era. But once again I’m pretty sure they wished the same about us. I believe they wished they experienced our technology our computers our phones etc
Where did they find this big old boy to do these documentaries? He fails to come across as insightful and loves joking it up like we’re in a bar. I’ve been unable to last the whole length of these interesting topics because he so off putting.
I can't even count how many videos I watch with an awful interviewer. you're there to keep the conversation going if need be, not to interrupt at every turn.
I can't speak for the final day in the tearoom. I wasn't there, but I was employed at Bullocks Wilshire during its final years. There were plenty of people of color that shopped at, were employed by and frequented Bullocks Wilshire.
I’m a Native Angeleno who didn’t know much about Southwestern Law School, but this restoration effort puts it on the map for me. Thank you for highlighting and celebrating the preservation work in a town where far too many historic properties are razed.
I remember this place, it was so beautiful. God bless my gay uncle who loved department stores and took me to shop at these palaces: Bullocks, The Broadway, Robinson’s, Buffums, May Co., Silverwoods, Or’Bachs, I.Magnin.
Bless the sales people-they loved their jobs and were classy professionals.
I'm sending a prayer to Huell Howser thanking him for documenting
Bullock's Wilshire and it's employees. The respect and graciousness of his interviewing manner honored the memories of my father, Rudolph Galindo and his thirty- eight years of employment at this Store. The ending interview with the elevator operator was a heavenly shout out to my father who first started his employment at Bullock's as an elevator operator
in 1940's.
I went to UA-cam to find the interview with the Elevator Man, and I saw your comment. I always thought he must have been one of the the nicest people on this rock.Not a religious person, but Bless You Huell Howser and the Elevator Man!
We miss you Huell.
Very nostalgic. In the early 1950's, I worked in the building as a wrapper and boxer in the basement; my aunt was a saleswoman.
WoW! Do you still live in Southern California? My parents lived in Baldwin Hills in the early 1960s while my Dad attended USC.
It was wonderful to me to watch this tour of a place with so much history and be able to look back at how things once were, and the endearment to preserve that past. My most favorite part was listening and watching Huell draw such poignant and sense deep sense of loss from the patrons and staff on closing day.
I was a fan of Huell and his series. RIP
Sigh, how can I have such nostalgia for a place or time I never lived or visited..
The Superman line was "faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound."
Thanks, KCET, for making all the HH series available. Huel Howser was the best of California's Gold.
Bullock's was never a department store. It was a Speciality Store, like Bergdorf Goodman, B. Altman & Co.,, and Sak's Fifth Avenue. The first Chanel shop in California was at Bullock's. There's a group called the Friends of Bullock's Wilshire and once a year, usually in July, for one day they open the building for touring and the tea room serves lunch using original recipes.
Indeed it was a department store. I bought a Hotpoint range at Bullock’s Downtown store.
Wow. How can I get details
It was absolutely a department store and my parents shopped there a lot - it was fabulous and I wish it was still open.
I was in this store back in about 1986 and it was impressive. I am sad that i never went up to the tea room.
The saddest day for this store was when it was looted during the riots in 1992. It provided a perfect excuse for Macy's to close it.
The close captioning of the elevator man are just hilarious.😅 28:18 it has nothing to do with what he’s saying.
One of the highlights of this segment. 😂
My Grandmother managed the Tea Room for some time - I kept hoping I'd see her in that segment of the show. Anyway, I used to go there a lot when I was kid because I'd get her employee discount (otherwise the Tea Room was a bit too pricey for me lol). She'd always give me very nice clothes from there for Christmas too. I loved Bullocks Wilshire and was really sad when it closed. Robinsons down at Wilshire and Santa Monica was very nice as well, way better than any other store except Bullocks Wilshire, but it closed too. They don't make stores like those anymore :-(
Wonderful experience in bet ?
I wish that they'd include the original air dates of all of these programs. I remember a lot of them
Amazing to see it last thru 93❣️How Grand💎 Great tour on last day. Beautiful Tea room. Bring it back. Progress…. Killing it. Just sad to see it degraded for a library…. Boo hoo 😢
Thank you, KCET, for posting this gem of an episode! I've never seen this until now. It's been a dream of mine to visit Bullocks Wilshire but, more importantly, to see what it looked like in its heyday as an actual store. Talk about lavish and sumptuous architecture. It is, without a doubt, THE best art deco monument in Los Angeles. I hope they still do tours when the pandemic is over, because I HAVE to see it with my own eyes!
A fabulous documentary! Carol from California
As a longtime Angeleno, I was heartbroken by the Bullocks-Wiltshire closing...but it's rebirth as this sensitively restored interior to serve as law library for the lawyers of tomorrow has truly been a comfort to me and no doubt many others. Thanks for this film!
Great Look back, thanks Huell and KCET.
The elevator man is a legend
I rember elevator mAn so nice to me as kid
I miss Huell
this takes me back to a good time in my life
When our tour guide lit up like a Christmas tree when talking about Mae West and Hollywood, I beamed in gratitude for the information she knew that should have determined our glorious future from the moments to which she referred. She just *knows* the value of the cravings of the people who desire the Bullocks-Wilshire for every individual who shares the want of a past that should have survived beyond its heyday.
So interesting! Thank you for posting!
I never thought I was going to watch the entire show but it’s missing the “cute & classy ladies” from the Bullock’s Tea Room that are no longer there. Beautiful almost like stepping back in time .. Déjà vu.
I grew up in Texas and, although I have lived in L. A. for many years, I have never been inside Bullocks Wilshire; it closed years before I moved here. Fascinating documentary; the store seems to me to have been much like Neiman-Marcus in Dallas, which had its restaurant on the sixth floor, when Stanley Marcus still ran the company.
All this was before my time. I've gone past the building a few times. Thanks for sharing this history with me.
Fantastic video! Wonderful history of this grand building!
My late Mother briefly worked in the beauty salon there at Bullocks Wilshire in the late 1930s. She became quite ill and could not continue her work.
❤
interesting to see how it used to be and how it has become, Thank you for a view inside the'Bullock Wilshire'.
Wonderful experiences & shopping memories in Bullocks Wilshire. ...
It was the most single beautiful store in America
Worked at 3200 Wilshire for many years and would go there once in a while for a lunch. Prices were out of my budget at the time. Great building.
Gorgeous architecture and history and now gone. It's now Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Why didn't this gem become a museum? Huell and the guide were outstanding. She really knows the history and explains it both in detail and makes it come alive.
I Remember Even
Broadway 🎭
Department Stores
Had Tea 🍵 Rooms
Served Lunch 🍴
Nice to see Huell in fighting trim.
Such a beautiful building, in every way
I’m sure there’s a Bullocks Wilshire library in heaven
The Tea Room was so gorgeous. Such a travesty to have taken it away from Los Angeles. Everyone there is devastated. Notice how everyone dressed up to go to Bullock's. The workers and customers are just traumatized.
People today have NO sense of propriety.
They laid every accolade on this store but if it was so great it would still be open. Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit which was the granddaddy of department stores met the same fate...suburban sprawl and changing shopping tastes. It met the wrecking ball...
Life was so grand, being wealthy, in the 1930’s
It's a wonderful program. Saw it
i love this store I used to shop there.
That Building was featuring Dunston Checks In as a hotel building.
Unbelievable that Bullock's kept the entire building as decorated and designed originally. In a world where every few years department stores are changed and redecorated or just painted all white or gray, it is amazing that it had survived as long as it did. So depressing that places like Bullock's no longer exist in most of the Country. Even Nashville TN used to have 3 great hometown department stores that were extremely elegant. They are gone now along with the buildings. Such a travesty.
Awesome documentary
22:38. "...they call it progress." Most of they're customer base was dying off or soon to.
great video thanks!
Wonderful store and history. Why was it allowed to close?
It's Southwestern Law School now
This is from four years back. Any updates? By the by, compare the overhead of the porch to the artwork in Los Angeles' Union Station.
Such a beautiful building rich in history. I believe it's some sort of law school now I just hope they take of it and hopefully one day it can return.
Think Huell forgot he was in a library. Shhhhh! 😂
He’s so irritatingly disruptive
That lady with the polka dot scarf hit the nail on the head. And that gentleman...Yes, "Our" whole world is crumbling. Our Civilization is going down. So sad to see these genteel people seem so helpless in the face of the evil powers that be. The same thing happened with "Eatons" Department Store" in Canada and other great landmarks as well. When a part of our culture and traditon is ripped away from us, so is a piece of our heart and soul. Once we lose all that is dear and familiar...all that we love and cherish, we go into a deep culture shock....a form of spiritual death. Satan wants a soulless society of slaves that he can control...a "New Dark Age" where there is no wondrous beauty or truth to lift our hearts in peace and joy. Our enemies have chosen to follow him down the path to darkness and dispair...to break the chord that binds us and blind us to the light...to destroy the true meaning of love and sacrifice...the promise of Eternal Life that awaits all those who believe in the Word of God...who have not lost faith in His grand design...His infinite Wisdom and Glory. We can choose to believe in miracles or go down into the dust. As time goes on, it is not only the place but the character of the people that will change. Our world will grow colder and colder everyday. The Bible warned us of this. Will we now bow down to the "Luciferians"? Have the rebels become so subservient and knumb that we have lost the will to fight? For the sake of our children, we must NEVER forget. We still have a God-given choice. We still have the power to RISE and take it all back. When we put on the armour of Christ, nothing can stop us or stand in our way.
+ FREEDOM AND TRUTH OR PERISH + DEUS VULT!
They couldn’t afford to have that built and decorated today. WhT was in the tower? Could you ride up? Why didn’t he show the elevators and restrooms?
i thought "visiting" would be about non california stuff but nah still california lol
I grew up there. Bullocks was walking distance. It is hard to imagine that LA/Hollywood was an elegant Continental American city. Today it is such a 3rd world shithole you can't even feel or think you're in the USA
@ I ATE AT THE TEA ROOM IN 1986, GOOD FOOD.
More powerful then a locomotive.
Than
Superman was faster than a speeding bullet, and more powerful than a locomotive
Much Like J.L. Hudsons in Northland, Michigan
A very far cry from today's Walmart. Much has been lost.
Jim Thompson,
As much as I hate correcting people, I have to say that Bullocks Wilshire cannot properly be compared with Walmart-not by a long shot. The proper comparison to contemporary stores would be to places like Saks or Nordstrom. You don’t see Walmart customers in those places, and well-heeled people wouldn’t be caught dead at a Walmart.
@@Archer335 You are right about that. Walmart should not be compared to this beautiful old store.
Hotters 7060,
Correct! 👍
@@Archer335 I believe von maur should be included in that list of class and store design and service in the department store sector
@@danielpierce6327,
Wow! I’d never heard of this place before your comment, having spent my entire life on either the east or west coast. I just looked it up. I may have a new place to do some online shopping. Thanks!
he clearly likes it
This information can be easily found, but Macy’s (the original ultimate first owner) was found to be pilfering all the precious objects contained within this historic building. Thankfully, they were convinced to return most of the items. It’s sad hearing of the abject neglect that Macy’s inflicted upon this building. Typical corporate greed at its finest.
John Gormley
Doubt any of these people are still alive
The past was better than today. Today's life is to fast
Today is yesterday, already
Simple truth. And pretty much all because of this thing you and I are hooked on right now- computers/internet.
I feel you I wished I was alive around the 1920 era. But once again I’m pretty sure they wished the same about us. I believe they wished they experienced our technology our computers our phones etc
Where did they find this big old boy to do these documentaries? He fails to come across as insightful and loves joking it up like we’re in a bar. I’ve been unable to last the whole length of these interesting topics because he so off putting.
I can't even count how many videos I watch with an awful interviewer. you're there to keep the conversation going if need be, not to interrupt at every turn.
Did you just insult Huell? Oh, wow.
The tea room tripped me out why white woman only ? It was the last meal that day there. they didn’t want people of color there or racist?
We see what we want to see.
That may be true, but as a black woman, when do we move forward. We cannot change the past, we can only learn from it, and try not to repeat it. 💜
I can't speak for the final day in the tearoom. I wasn't there, but I was employed at Bullocks Wilshire during its final years. There were plenty of people of color that shopped at, were employed by and frequented Bullocks Wilshire.
When the traditions fail a culture is lost. Panorama City swap meet, try there. New traditions being made by a new culture.
All the old white bags....
Racist.
As a black woman, i find your remark racist. Clearly, you are part of the problem, and not the solution.
That uncalled for.