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May Company

The May Company was a California-based chain of mid-level department stores established by the May family of St. Louis, Missouri. In 1923, the May’s acquired A. Hamburger & Sons, also known as The People’s Store, taking over management and even expanding it, but in 1927, Hamburger’s was officially renamed The May Company.

At The May Company’s inception, the flagship store in downtown Los Angeles on Hill Street was one of the country’s largest department stores, occupying almost an entire city block. Expansion into other parts of the city and the suburbs began in the late 1930s, and continued right up until the company merged with J.W. Robinson stores in 1993 to form Robinsons-May.

In 2005, Federated Department Stores bought its parent company – the May Department Stores, and Robinsons-May was dissolved in 2005-6.

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