Groundbreaking for new White Front Stores general offices, 1960

2 images. Groundbreaking for new White Front Stores general offices, 3 June 1960. Ernest Debs (Supervisor); Harry Blackman (Founder and President of White Front Stores); Mayor Maurice H. Quigley (of City of Commerce); Louis Warschaw (Vice President of Harvlan Inc.); Mrs. Harry Blackman. (Handout). ; Supplementary material reads: "News release. MAdison 6-8663. Snyder-Smith, 710 Subway Terminal Building, 417 South Hills Street, Los Angeles 13. Los Angeles, Calif., June 3, 1960. For release June 4 or 5, 1960. Special to Los Angeles Examiner (Story attached). (Caption for photo negs. #3 & 4 attached). Breaking ground for new White Front headquarters -- Wielding the shovel is Supervisor Ernest E. Debs at ground-breaking ceremonies for the new general officers and warehouse of White Front Stores, Inc., recently consolidated with the national chair, Interstate Department Stores, Inc., in a large expansion program. From left, Harry Blackman, founder and president of White Front Stores, Mayor Maurice H. Quigley of the City of Commerce, Supervisor Debs, Mrs. Blackman and Louis Warschaw, vice president of Harvlan, Inc., developers of a new major industrial and shopping center in the City of Commerce."