Back on January 27, I posted a circa 1950s color photo of Vine St in Hollywood in which I pointed out a sign of a store I’d never previously noticed. It was for a men’s wear haberdasher called Sachson’s that had originally been in the Huntington Hartford building closer to the Hollywood Blvd corner, but moved to 1523 Vine St in March of 1955. I later heard from Milt Sachson’s daughter, Rosanne, who sent me this wonderfully atmospheric photo of the window display at night. Rosanne said that her father’s store had a very British flavor to it, hence the Union Jacks and the model of the Queen Elizabeth. At some point, Rosanne started doing the window displays for her father’s store, which she told me changed every week. This store looks like it had so much charm, the type of which we rarely see these days.
The building that housed Sachson’s is no longer there. The building that stands there now houses 800 Degrees Pizzeria. This image is from May 2022.
Thank you, Martin, for marvelous sleuthing and chatting, I look forward to meeting you in person! Hollywood in those days was lovely as a little girl I would walk up to Hollywood Blvd. with a BofA pouch filled with cash and a few checks to make a deposit. My cousin and I would go to the movies by ourselves. Family dinner at Musso & Frank…lunch across the street at the Brown Derby and the best was ice cream at CC Brown’s. Factoid 1523 Vine Stree was Wil Wright’s ice cream parlor prior to my father’s shop.
Thank you Martin for your great sleuthing!