page_title: Jacoby Bros.
hierarchical_section_title: Jacoby Bros.
caption_attribution_description: English: Jacoby Bros Dry Goods store in Temple Block, Los Angeles, around 1896
context_page_description: Jacoby Bros. was one of Los Angeles' largest dry goods retailers in the 1880s and 1890s, developing over the decades into a department store, which closed in the late 1930s.
  In 1870, Isaac, Nathan, Charles, Abraham, and Lessor Jacoby had joined with him and Leopold Harris in buying out Herman W. Hellman's store, to form Harris & Jacoby. The Jacoby brothers, Leopold Harris and Harris Newmark all came from the same town of Löbau, West Prussia. The Jacobys sold clothing, home furnishings, boots, shoes, hats, et al., both wholesale and retail.
  In February, 1878, Loewenstein sold his business at in the Downey Block, 63 N. Main St., on the west side of Main, just north of Temple, opposite Commercial Street, to Lessor Jacoby and "Jacoby's Clothing House" started business there later that year.
  From 1879, the store
context_section_description: Jacoby Bros. (late 1930s, Jacoby's) was one of Los Angeles' largest dry goods retailers in the 1880s and 1890s, developing over the decades into a department store, which closed in the late 1930s.
  In 1870, Isaac, Nathan, Charles, Abraham, and Lessor Jacoby had joined with him and Leopold Harris in buying out Herman W. Hellman's store, to form Harris & Jacoby. The Jacoby brothers, Leopold Harris and Harris Newmark all came from the same town of Löbau, West Prussia (later part of the German Empire, now Lubawa, Poland). The Jacobys sold clothing, home furnishings, boots, shoes, hats, et al., both wholesale and retail.
  In February, 1878, Loewenstein sold his business at in the Downey Block, 63 N. Main St. (post-1890 numbering: 163 N. Main), on the west side of Main, just north of Temple, opposite Commercial Street, to Lessor Jacoby and "Jacoby's Clothing House" started business there later that year.
  From 1879, the store (first promoting itself as "L. Jacoby", then "Jacoby Bros." was located in County Bank Building of the Temple Block, 121-127 N. Main St. (post-1890 numbering: 221–227 N. Main St.)., between Temple and First streets. Later the address was given as 128–138 N. Spring St., which was the western entrance to the same building.
  In 1900, it moved, as many upscale retailers did, west to Broadway and south, to 331-333-335 S. Broadway, between Third and Fourth streets. The new store opened on March 3, 1900 and had five stories, 60,000 square feet (5,600 m²) of selling space, a sixty-foot frontage and two elevators. The second floor featured men's clothing, the third floor, ladies', and the fourth floor attended the wholesale business. The store boasted that a 25-by-40-foot center court allowed light to permeate the store, and that its 13,125 sq ft (1,219.4 m²) basement shoe department was the largest in the Western United States and three times as large as any other shoe store in the city. The store was exclusive retailer for clothing by Hackett, Carhart & Co.
  In 1935 the Jacoby Bros. liquidated their Broadway premises, unable to renew their lease, and sold their stock to the May Company. A Los Angeles-based Boston Store (not the Inglewood-based Boston Store, which would become a large chain) occupied the premises in the late 1930s.
  The concern reopened in early 1936 (dropping the "Bros." and advertising as Jacoby's) at 605 S. Broadway, southwest corner of Broadway and 6th, but went out of business in 1938, and in 1940, retailer Zukor's leased the majority of the premises. The Zukor's sign is still visible on the portion of the Jacoby Bros. building that it occupied.
caption: Jacoby Bros. Dry Goods store in Temple Block, Los Angeles, around 1896