Mandel's

Mandel's (a.k.a. Mandel's Shoe Stores and Mandel's Fascinating Slippers) was a chain of shoe stores in the Southwestern United States for many decades of the 20th century. For a time it advertised its wares as "Mandel's Fascinating Slippers". Maurice Mandel headed up the stores through the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.[1][2] Later Mandel would later serve as General Merchandise Manager (GMM) of chain Mullen & Bluett[3] and president of Harris & Frank.[4] Among its branches were:

in Central Los Angeles:

• Downtown Los Angeles, flagship store at 518 W. 7th St., opened March 1936, claimed to be the largest shoe store in the Western United States[5]
• Beverly Hills, 9670 Wilshire Boulevard, opened 1954[6]
• Hollywood - 2 Hollywood Boulevard locations
• Miracle Mile - 5480 Wilshire Boulevard,[7] closed in 1970s. One of the earliest commercial structures in the Miracle Mile, built in 1927-9 in Spanish Colonial Revival style and remodeled in 1949 by Eugene Burke and Charles M. Kober in "ultra-modern California style featuring soft color contrasts".[8]

in the rest of Greater Los Angeles:

• Glendale - 327 N. Brand Ave., opened 1953[9]
• Lakewood Center, Lakewood, [10] remodeled 1962[11]
• Long Beach - 3rd and Pine[12]
• Pasadena - 246 S. Lake St., opened 1957, 4,000 square feet (370 m²), cost $160,000, at that time the 10th store in the chain[13]
• Santa Ana 406 N. Main St.[1]

Elsewhere:

• El Paso, Texas - 208 N. Mesa[14]
• Phoenix[15]

In 1957, a California Appellate Court rules that Mandel's could not refuse to sell merchandise to Africa Americans, as a retail store was a "place of public accommodation", overruling a previous decision that stores were not covered by state anti-Jim Crow laws.[16][17]