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:

in the rest of Greater Los Angeles:

Elsewhere:

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]

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