Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
BarkerBrOS
Some meoftheThingswhich
Have Made This Big
Store the Wonder
of the West

moved to the magnificent building now occu-
pied at 724-726-72S-730-732 South Broadway.
In Barker Bros great store Los Angeles
possesses one of the largest and best equipped
furniture establishments in the whole world.
1t is store, which, from the pioneer days OF
Los Angeles has been ever the most progress
i've among the furniture houses of the entire
Pacific Coast country.
Occupying groud space $50 feet in depth
and 10 feet in widtf-fve stories front, eight
stories high, and basement-this great estab-
lshment embraces a floor space of more than
10000 square feet
Barker Bros great stock is one of the larg-
est i'll America, devoted exclusively to furn1-
ture, carpets, draperes and other furnishing
accessories. 1t is stock from which one may
fit out palace, or cottage-a bungalow, or
an Italian villa 1t is one of the few furniture
stores in the United States fully prepared to
handle all classes of trade.
Stocks in every department throughout the
immense establishment are maintained IN
completeness not approached by any other
store in the West. In selecting the furnish
ngs for ones home, it is possible to choose
everything needed, without leaving the store.
Throughout the building will be found an
assortment of furniture representing the best
products of the best makers in Amerca-a
display which is almost marvellous i'll its ex-
tensiveneSs and completeness. In furniture
alone from eight to ten thousand different
sample pieces are shown. In addition to the
staple styles, there is gathering of Colonial
and other period reproductions equaed only
in a very few stores in the United States One
entire floor alone is devoted to mission turnl-
ture
In addition to furniture lines, splendid
display of pianos is carried embracing the
famous Baldwin line. Also a line of the cell
ebrated Columbia CIraDhanOlaS.
One entire floor is devoted to a specialized
department of modern office furnishings, with
the largest and most complete stock in the
city of Clemco office desks, Shaw-Walker fill
ing devices and Macy sectional bookcases.
"A large portion OF the basement is devoted
to a display of the famous Vulcan gas ranges
Universal steel ranges and other kitchen ac-
CeSsOrieS.
Upon the second floor is shown the largest
stock of rugs, carpets, linoleums, mattings,
etc. to be seen in any Western store. In ad-
dtion, there is also carried the largest collec-
ton of Oriental and rare Antique rugs in the
West.
Barker Bros have developed the science of
furnishing homes to the highest and most
efficient standard. Specialists in many lines
visit the principal markets of the country fire.
quently enough to keep in touch with every
thing that is new, practical and artistic.
Barker Bros exceptional resources and IA
cilities have enabled them to handle a ma or
ity of the largest and most important furnish
ing contracts in Southern California, includ-
ing the U. S. Grant hotel, just opened at San
Diego the Alexandria, King Edward Wood
ward Hayward Yorkshire, Mt Washington
Rosslyn, Natck and others; the Elks' club,
Sierra Madre club and apartment houses,
lodges banks, etc, too numerous to mention
This immense volume of business, in addition
to their tremendous regular retail trade, gives
Barker Bros an unequaled buying advantage,
and the benefit of a closer wholesale cost, than
can be secured by any other firm in their ter
ritory
Barker Bros has always been store which
has believed in good furniture-at popular
price Barker Bros. is a store which has al
ways dealt generously with its patrons. Bark
er Bros. is a store for all the reople-and
store which all the people patronlze