{"id":21079,"date":"2020-10-23T07:06:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=21079"},"modified":"2020-10-23T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T04:01:07","slug":"fredericks-of-hollywood-in-the-old-kress-department-store-6608-hollywood-blvd-hollywood-circa-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2020\/10\/23\/fredericks-of-hollywood-in-the-old-kress-department-store-6608-hollywood-blvd-hollywood-circa-1960s\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederick&#8217;s of Hollywood in the old Kress department store, 6608 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, circa 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21080\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2020\/10\/23\/fredericks-of-hollywood-in-the-old-kress-department-store-6608-hollywood-blvd-hollywood-circa-1960s\/fredericks-of-hollywood-replete-with-hollywood-star-street-lighting-circa-1960s\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fredericks-of-Hollywood-replete-with-Hollywood-star-street-lighting-circa-1960s.jpg?fit=833%2C633&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"833,633\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Frederick&#8217;s of Hollywood, replete with Hollywood &#8220;star&#8221; street lighting, circa 1960s\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fredericks-of-Hollywood-replete-with-Hollywood-star-street-lighting-circa-1960s.jpg?fit=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fredericks-of-Hollywood-replete-with-Hollywood-star-street-lighting-circa-1960s.jpg?fit=640%2C486&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21080\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fredericks-of-Hollywood-replete-with-Hollywood-star-street-lighting-circa-1960s.jpg?resize=640%2C486&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Frederick's of Hollywood in the old Kress department store, 6608 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, circa 1960s\" width=\"640\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fredericks-of-Hollywood-replete-with-Hollywood-star-street-lighting-circa-1960s.jpg?w=833&amp;ssl=1 833w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fredericks-of-Hollywood-replete-with-Hollywood-star-street-lighting-circa-1960s.jpg?resize=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fredericks-of-Hollywood-replete-with-Hollywood-star-street-lighting-circa-1960s.jpg?resize=768%2C584&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>A couple of days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2020\/10\/20\/looking-west-along-hollywood-blvd-from-vine-street-hollywood-circa-1961-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>I posted a photo of Hollywood Blvd<\/strong><\/a> in which I noticed for the first time that the streetlights in the 1960s each had five gold stars on them. And now I find this one from around the same time that also shows streetlights with the same decoration. This one is outside the famous\/infamous Frederick&#8217;s of Hollywood. It opened in 1947 in the old Kress department store building by Frederick Mellinger, whose big claim to fame was that he invented the push-up bra. The store sold bras, panties, corsets, bedroom slippers, a vast array of hosiery, bridal lingerie, special occasion lingerie, and more. They also did a huge mail order business.<\/h4>\n<h4>This image of the Kress building and the blue-tiled one next door is from April 2019:<\/h4>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21087\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2020\/10\/23\/fredericks-of-hollywood-in-the-old-kress-department-store-6608-hollywood-blvd-hollywood-circa-1960s\/april-2019-19\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/april-2019-1.png?fit=1200%2C1034&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1034\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"april 2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/april-2019-1.png?fit=300%2C259&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/april-2019-1.png?fit=640%2C551&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-21087\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/april-2019-1.png?resize=595%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/april-2019-1.png?resize=1024%2C882&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/april-2019-1.png?resize=300%2C259&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/april-2019-1.png?resize=768%2C662&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/april-2019-1.png?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I posted a photo of Hollywood Blvd in which I noticed for the first time that the streetlights in the 1960s each had five gold stars on them. And now I find this one from &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2020\/10\/23\/fredericks-of-hollywood-in-the-old-kress-department-store-6608-hollywood-blvd-hollywood-circa-1960s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,8,15,37],"class_list":["post-21079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-color-photo","tag-hollywood","tag-hollywood-blvd","tag-stores-and-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-5tZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21088,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21079\/revisions\/21088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}