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To: Kathy in Alaska
Memories....I grew up just a block from South St and Woodruff in Lakewood. Half a block walk to Mayfair HS.

In the 1950's and 1960's, we used to go to Dutch Village, a mall at Woodruff and South, where we would regularly shop at Federal Employees' Distributing Company, aka Fedco, a department store that required membership and whose membership was restricted to government employees, teachers, etc. Fedco later moved to South and Pioneer. It went out of business in 1999.

In the mid-1980's, Dutch Village, which looked like a Dutch village, a tribute to the Dutch dairy farmers who were once numerous in the area, was razed and replaced by mall that, architecturally speaking, looks like any other mall.


Dutch Village in Lakewood, Calif.

393 posted on 04/13/2020 6:27:35 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill
Yup. Dutch Village remember it well, as well as all those Dairy farms on Artesia or on South St/Orangethorpe. Those farmeers made a fortune when they sold out in the late 60's and early 70's.
398 posted on 04/16/2020 4:39:21 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Youth, speed and energy can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
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