Hartfield-Zodys


Hartfield-Zodys was an American retail corporation begun in 1960. It operated the Hartfield chain of women's ready-to-wear apparel in the Los Angeles area, and starting in 1960, the Zodys chain of discount retail stores, which operated locations in California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Michigan.

Hartfield's

Hartfield was present on Broadway, the main shopping district in the Los Angeles area in the 1940s, in the F. and W. Grand Silver Store Building at 545 S. Broadway and also at 749 S. Broadway. Additionally, a 1943 advertisement showed branches at 253 South Market Street in Inglewood, 650 Pacific Boulevard in Huntington Park, and 705 South Pacific Avenue in San Pedro, all busy downtown shopping districts of what were once separate towns that had become working and middle class suburbs of Los Angeles. Additional branches opened across the Los Angeles area over the following decades.

Zodys

Hartfield’s decided to enter the discount department store business with a new chain to be called Zodys, and opened its first one on June 13, 1960, in Garden Grove, in Central Orange County, California. From 1962 the parent company changed its name to Hartfield-Zodys. By 1969 there were 19 stores. In 1972, Hartfield-Zodys acquired the Yankee Stores chain of Flint, Michigan, briefly re-branding the stores as Yankee-Zodys, and later as Zodys. In 1969 Zodys opened a 6.5-acre distribution center employing 300. The Michigan stores were unprofitable, and were sold in 1974 when Hartfield-Zodys filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. A brief period of prosperity brought expansions into Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. In 1979 there were 37 stores.
Locations included:
  1. Garden Grove, 9852 Chapman Avenue
  2. Redondo Beach, 1413 Hawthorne Boulevard
  3. Long Beach, 5933 Spring Street
  4. Northridge, 10201 Reseda Boulevard
  5. Canoga Park, 8201 Topanga Canyon Boulevard
  6. West Covina, 615 North Azusa Avenue
  7. Burbank, 1000 North San Fernando Road
  8. Anaheim, 120 West Orangethorpe Avenue
  9. Huntington Beach, 6912 Edinger Avenue
  10. Buena Park, 121 North Beach Blvd
  11. Santa Ana, 1900 North Grand Avenue
  12. Norwalk, 10901 East Imperial Highway
  13. Fountain Valley, 16111 Harbor Boulevard
  14. Long Beach, 2185 South Street
  15. Pomona, 1444 East Holt Avenue
  16. Inglewood, 3200 West Century Boulevard
  17. North Hollywood, 12727 Sherman Way
  18. Lynwood, 4050 Imperial Highway
  19. Fullerton, 120 East Imperial Highway
  20. Torrance, 851 West Sepulveda Boulevard
  21. Ladera Heights, 4925 West Slauson Avenue
  22. Bakersfield, 4001 Ming Street
  23. Riverside, 3700 North Tyler Street
  24. Downtown Los Angeles, 437 South Broadway
  25. Hollywood, 5420 West Sunset Boulevard
  26. San Bernardino, 555 West Second Street
  27. Alhambra, 600 East Valley Boulevard
  28. Montebello, 2441 Via Campo
  29. Fresno, 5422 North Blackstone Avenue
  30. City Of Industry, 151 South Hacienda Boulevard
  31. Pasadena, 900 North Lake Avenue
  32. Indio, 82266 Highway 111
  33. Midtown, 4801 Venice Boulevard
  34. Boyle Heights, 2800 East First Street
  35. Vermont/Slauson, 5850 South Vermont Street, Los Angeles
  36. Oxnard, 830 Wagon Wheel Road
  37. Oceanside, 2505 Vista Way
  38. San Jose, 920 Blossom Hill
  39. Sunnyvale, 121 El Camino Real
  40. San Jose, 375 North Capital Avenue
  41. Las Vegas, 2120 South Decatur Boulevard
  42. Upland, 1445 East Foothill Boulevard
  43. East Riverside, 3900 Chicago Avenue

    Liquidation

Bankrupt again by the early 1980s, the parent company, now known as HRT Industries, began closing stores in 1984. The remaining Zodys stores in California were shuttered in March 1986, with many locations sold to Federated Stores; Kroger, the parent company of Ralphs supermarket chain, and HomeClub, a home improvement store chain.