Barnett and Stine 6th and D (Broadway) San Diego est

Holzwasser's was a large department store that operated from 1911 to 1933 in the

Downtown San Diego Downtown San Diego is the city center of San Diego, California, the eighth largest city in the United States. In 2010, the Centre City area had a population of more than 28,000. Downtown San Diego serves as the cultural and financial center and ...

shopping district along Broadway and Fifth and Sixth avenues.

First location

The first Holzwasser location, now known as the

Colonel Fletcher Building The Colonel Fletcher Building at 602–632 Broadway, in Downtown San Diego was the site of some of the retail history of San Diego. The building is at the northeast corner of 6th and Broadway; Broadway was originally named D Street. It was buil ...

, was built at the northeast corner of 6th and Broadway by "Colonel" Ed Fletcher around 1906–1908"History", Colonel Fletcher Building website, accessed August 5, 2020
/ref> along with Frank Salmans, and designed by architect Edward Quayle of the Quayle Brothers (who would later do the 1935 renovation of the

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Building). It was remodeled around 2005 by Champion Development Group. Originally it was a two-story building housing the Barnett-Stine Co. department store. Two more stories were added. Barnett-Stine went out of business in 1911 and Holzwasser's opened in the building.

Second location and epilogue

In 1919, Holzwasser's built a new building to house its store in Spanish Colonial Revival style; John Terrel Vawter, architect. It opened in 1920. Holzwasser's went out of business in 1933. In 1935

, a venture of Messrs. Walker and Scott of the Fifth Street Store in Los Angeles and

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, opened in the building, which would become the flagship of a chain of department stores across San Diego County and beyond.

References

{{History of Retail in Southern California Defunct department stores based in San Diego