Los Angeles - California - Broadway Arcade Building - Historic Downtown

            The Broadway Arcade in Los Angeles of 1922-1924, with its three-story, sky-lit space, was a late example. It had entrances on two main thoroughfares, 524 South Broadway and 541 South Spring Street. Unlike their European predecessors, however, American architects fit the commercial arcade into huge blocks composed of rent-producing offices. Other cities, large and small, continued to build office buildings with internal arcades into the 20th century.
From around 1905 through the 1950s, Broadway was considered the center of the city, where residents went to ornate movie palaces and live theaters, and shopped at major department stores and shops. See the Table of department stores on Broadway and Seventh streets below.

The square footage of the four largest department stores alone — Bullock's at 806,000 sq ft (74,900 m2), The Broadway at 577,000 sq ft (53,600 m2),[17] May Co. at over 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2)[18] and J. W. Robinson's (7th St. at Hope) at 623,700 sq ft (57,940 m2)[19][20] — totaled over three million square feet, the size of American Dream Meadowlands, America's largest mall today.
   

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