12019-03-12T23:57:30+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a1282411Los Angeles Sentinel - July 27, 1939plainpublished2019-03-12T23:57:30+00:00Anonymous
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12019-03-12T23:57:28+00:00July 27, 19393plainpublished2019-08-21T09:57:23+00:00On July 27, 1939, the Los Angeles Sentinel’s front page announced that Rubye Pollard-Reid was opening a dress shop. “Pollard-Reid owns and operates the famous Flo-Ru-Mal Dress Shoppe with beauty salon in Dallas, Tex., which is nationally reknown [sic] for its distinctive women’s wear, is equipping the building at 5505 Central avenue for a similar business which will be without exaggeration the finest of its kind ever to be operated on Central avenue.” The Sentinel featured several advertisements for Pollard-Reid’s “Avenue Shoppe” in 1939 and 1940. (Click to view article PDF.)