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{{Short description|American department store chain}}
{{Infobox company
| name = J. W. Robinson's
| logo = Robinsons Department Store CA Final Logo.png
| logo_size = 
| logo_alt = 
| logo_caption = 
| image = J. W. Robinson's new 7th Street store at launch 1915.jpg
| image_size = 
| image_alt = 
| image_caption = Exterior of the former flagship store on [[7th Street (Los Angeles)|7th Street]] in [[Los Angeles]] (1915)
| former_name = {{plain list|
* Boston Dry Goods Store
* J. W. Robinson Co.
}}
| type = Division
| traded_as = 
| industry = [[Retail]]
| genre = [[Department store]]s
| founded = {{Start date and age|1883}} in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], United States
| founder = Joseph Winchester Robinson
| defunct = {{End date and age|1993|1|31}}
| fate = Merged with [[May Company California]]
| successor = [[Robinsons-May]]
| hq_location = Los Angeles, California, United States
| num_locations = 
| num_locations_year = 
| area_served = 
| key_people = 
| products = {{flat list|
* Clothing
* footwear
* bedding
* furniture
* jewelry
* beauty products
* housewares
}}
| num_employees = 
| num_employees_year = 
| parent = {{plain list|
* [[Associated Dry Goods]] (1957&ndash;1986)
* [[The May Department Stores Company]] (1986&ndash;1993)
}}
| footnotes = 
}}

'''J. W. Robinson's''' ([[Colloquialism|colloquially]] '''Robinson's''') was an American department store chain founded in 1883 by Joseph Winchester Robinson. Its flagship store and headquarters were located in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], and operated in [[Southern California]] and [[Arizona]]. Robinson's and [[May Company California]] were merged and individually dissolved to form [[Robinsons-May]] in 1993.

== 19th century history ==
[[File:J. W. Robinson's Boston Store at Jones Block, 171-3 N. Spring St., Los Angeles 1886–1895.jpg|thumb|Boston Dry Goods (J. W. Robinson Co.) home from 1886 to 1895 at Jones Block, 171–173 N. Spring Street (post-1890 numbering)]]
[[File:Boston Dry Goods (J. W. Robinson Co.) New Store (1887), 171–173 Spring Street, Los Angeles.png|thumb|Another view of the Spring Street store, c.1887]]
Joseph Winchester Robinson was a merchant from [[Waltham, Massachusetts]] who moved to [[Rosemead, California]] in 1882 to develop orange groves. Robinson found the quality of goods and service from local merchants lacking, and reentered the retail business, utilizing his contacts on the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]] to deliver superior merchandise.

Robinson opened the {{convert|1440|sqft|sqm|adj=on|abbr=on}} Boston Dry Goods Store in 1883 at the [[Allen Block]] at the southwest corner of [[Spring Street Financial District|Spring]] and [[Temple Street (Los Angeles)|Temple]] streets,<ref name="express">{{cite news |title=Nine Acres Space in Robinson Store |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62144309/nine-acres-space-in-robinson-store/ |publisher=Los Angeles Evening Express |date=May 30, 1914}}</ref> stating that his store offered "fine stocks and refined 'Boston' service." In 1891, J. W. Robinson died at the age of 44 and his father, Henry Winchester Robinson, came from [[Boston]] to Los Angeles to take over the business, and the "Boston Dry Goods Store" was renamed the "J. W. Robinson Company" in honor of its late founder.

In 1887, J.W. Robinson Co.'s Boston Dry Goods Store moved to a new store of around {{convert|3000|sqft|sqm|adj=off|abbr=on}} in the [[Jones Block (Los Angeles)|Jones Block]]<ref name="express"/> at 171–173 (post-1890 numbering) Spring Street, considered an adventurous move because at that time, the location was far from the [[Victorian Downtown Los Angeles|central business district of that period]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Advertisement by J. W. Robinson Co. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380244402 |access-date=3 May 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=12 March 1933 |page=35}}</ref> When Robinson's moved again in 1895, Nathaniel Blackstone, brother-in-law of J.W. Robinson, moved into the vacated space and founded [[Blackstone Building (Los Angeles)|Blackstone's Dry Goods]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Advertisement by N. B. Blackstone Co. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/80575497/ |access-date=3 May 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=8 May 1898 |page=17}}</ref> which would become a single-location downtown department store in its own right.

Mr. C. W. R. Ford, who had owned his own wholesale store at 522 Market Street in San Francisco,<ref>{{cite news |title=Left All Some Money: A San Francisco Merchant Who Remembered His Employees: The Late C.W.R. Ford, Who Died at Los Angeles, Bequeaths $200 to Each of His Former Clerks |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/457940096 |access-date=3 May 2019 |publisher=San Francisco Examiner |date=10 April 1896 |page=7}}</ref> married Robinson's widow and took over as president of the Robinson's company.

== 20th century history ==
[[File:Boston Dry Goods (J. W. Robinson Co.) New Store, 1895, 239 S. Broadway, Los Angeles.png|thumb|Boston Dry Goods (J. W. Robinson Co.) new store, 1895, 239 S. Broadway, Los Angeles]]

From 1880 to 1890, the population of Los Angeles doubled from 50,395 to 102,479 people. In January 1895 the J. W. Robinson Co., which by that time advertised simply as "The Boston Store", announced that after only eight years at Spring Street, more spacious quarters were necessary, and that a new four-story "Boston Dry Goods Store Building" was under construction at '''239 S. [[Broadway (Los Angeles)|Broadway]]''' (razed, currently site of a parking lot),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/239+S+Broadway,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90012|title = 239 S Broadway · 239 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012}}</ref> opposite the then City Hall. It was designed by [[Theodore Eisen]] and [[Sumner Hunt]], designer of the [[Bradbury Building]]. On October 1, 1895, Robinson's opened the new store. The new building was promoted at the time as a sign that Los Angeles had come into its own as a "metropolitan center" and that it was no longer necessary to make "annual pilgrimages to San Francisco" to obtain a wide selection of fine merchandise.

The front was "Grecian" ([[Greek Revival architecture|Greek Revival]]) in style, of light cream brick and terra cotta. It featured an elaborate [[Corinthian order|Corinthian-style]] cornice crowning the façade. Above it rose a high parapet broken by a high-relief entresol panel. All of this was surmounted by  elaborate [[acroteria]]. 60-foot-long, 19.5-foot-high [[plate glass]] windows illuminated the ground floor. Just above the second floor the façade was [[American colonial architecture|Colonial style]] and above that [[Doric order|Doric-style features]]. The building had passenger and freight elevators, and skylights illuminated through to the ground floor. The first/ground floor and part of the basement were devoted to retail with a central cashier's and wrapping desk, offices were also on the ground floor, receiving and shipping were also in the basement, while the two upper floors housed the main part of the manufacturing and wholesale departments, which moved down from Temple Street. The second floor housed various merchandise departments, areas to display delicate fabrics under gas light, a desk with stationery for customers to write, and the ladies' "parlors" (restrooms).<ref>{{cite news |title=The Boston Dry Goods Store |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/378309330 |access-date=3 May 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1 January 1895 |page=29}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The New Boston Store:Los Angeles' Finest Commercial Structure Is Complete |publisher=Los Angeles Herald |date=4 October 1895 |page=5}}</ref> In 1908 the store opened up a 5-story extension at the back, fronting on Hill Street. The architect was [[Theodore Eisen]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Advertisement for J. W. Robinson Company Boston Dry Goods Store |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61530377/robinsons-boston-dry-goods-hill-street/ |publisher=Los Angeles Evening Post-Record |date=September 30, 1908}}</ref>

=== Flagship store construction ===
[[File:600 W. 7th St., Los Angeles.jpg|thumb|left|J. W. Robinson's 1915-1993 flagship store (façade from 1934), 600 W. 7th St.]]
As Los Angeles continued to grow, so did Robinson's business and in 1914 it announced its construction of a new $1,000,000, (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=1000000|start_year=1914}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) seven-story flagship store with over nine acres ({{convert|400000|sqft|sqm}}) of floor space, along the south side of [[7th Street (Los Angeles)|West Seventh Street]] stretching alone the complete block between Grand and Hope streets. Frederick Noonan and [[William J. Dodd]] were the architects.<ref name=shovels>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/380279869/ "Steam Shovels Scooping Out Dirt At Site Of Big Store", ''Los Angeles Times'', May 24, 1914]</ref> The store opened on September 7, 1915.<ref name=palace>{{cite news |title=Great Palace For Commerce: Robinson's Mammoth Store Opens Tuesday|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31191874/robinsons_new_bldg_1915/ |access-date=May 3, 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 5, 1915 |page=55 (part V p.1 )}}</ref>
The building was expanded to the south in 1923 at a cost of $900,000 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=900000|start_year=1923}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}), Dodd and Richard, architects, for a total of {{convert|623700|sqft|sqm}}.<ref name=lat192301>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/380422917/ "Department Store Addition Now Rising Into Space", ''Los Angeles Times'', 11 January 1923]</ref> In 1934, the building was remodeled for between $100,000 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=100000|start_year=1934}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}})–200,000 to a "restrained Modernistic" exterior, shedding some its more exuberant Art Deco features and adding more parking facilities. Robinson's was the largest store of what became a new upscale [[7th Street (Los Angeles)|Seventh Street shopping district]] to the southwest of the concentration of department stores along Broadway, with [[Ville de Paris (department store)|Ville de Paris]] (later [[B. H. Dyas]]), [[Coulter's]], [[Haggarty's]], and [[Desmond's]] opening stores nearby.<ref>"Store Building To Be Changed", ''Los Angeles Times'', 4 February 1934</ref> The Robinson's store closed in 1993 and the building, 600 West Seventh Street, currently houses telecommunications (voice, data and internet servers), offices and ground-floor retail.

The store contained the following departments:
*First (ground) floor: ribbons, parasols, umbrellas, laces and trimmings, lace neckwear, feather boas, ceilings, gloves, handkerchiefs, fancy boas, fancy hairpins and combs, jewelry, leather goods, stationery, men's furnishings, boys' furnishings and clothing, "bargain square"
* Second floor: art needlework, linens, sheetings, wash goods, linings, silk dress good patterns, ladies' restrooms, design room, beauty parlors and shoe shining dept.
* Third floor: cloak and suit for misses and ladies, French room for imported gowns and hats, baby shop for fine layette materials and outfitting, mourning goods, children's dresses, petticoats, blouses, millinery, sweaters, bathing suits, kimono, bathrobes, house dresses, corsets, knit underwear, muslin underwear and aprons
* Fourth floor: rugs, draperies, pictures, brasses, statuary, cut glass, art porcelains and toys
* Fifth floor: offices, auditorium, alteration dept. and workrooms
* Sixth floor: hospital and reserve stockroom
* Seventh floor. employee cafeteria, two outdoor "courts", women's employee restroom, large "court" and lounge for men
* Seventh/top floor: roof garden and café

=== Acquisition by ADG and expansion ===
[[Associated Dry Goods]] (ADG) bought Robinson's in 1955 (the term used by CEO Edward R. Valentine in the press was that Robinson's "affiliated with" ADG.) At that time the chain's sales were $32.5 million annually, with $12 million coming from the Beverly Hills branch.<ref name=lat195509>{{cite news |title=Robinson's to Join N.Y. Store Group |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/381114287/ |access-date=3 May 2019 |publisher=Los Angeles |date=6 July 1955 |page=1}}</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/381114814/ J. W. Robinson's advertisement in the ''Los Angeles Times'', 6 July 1955, p.27]</ref><ref name="Hinshilwood">{{cite book
|title= Old Los Angeles and Pasadena|last= Hinshilwood|author2=C. Milton Hinshilwood |author3=Elena Irish Zimmerman |year= 2001|publisher= Arcadia Publishing|isbn= 978-0-7385-0809-2|page= 26
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lMhdJzQYMd0C&q=%22J.+W.+Robinson%27s%22+%22Los+Angeles%22&pg=PA26}}</ref>

Unlike competitors [[Bullock's]], [[Desmond's (department store)|Desmond's]], [[I. Magnin]] and [[Silverwoods]], in the 1930s and 1940s, Robinson's did not establish branches in the outlying upscale retail districts such as [[Wilshire Boulevard]], [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]], or [[Westwood, Los Angeles|Westwood]], except for a small [[Palm Springs]] shop at the Desert Inn that was originally a Bullock's.<ref name=lat195509/> Only starting in 1952 did it open its first of what would become about 30 branches, in Beverly Hills (see below).

[[File:Robinsons.jpg|thumb|left|Robinson's in [[Palm Springs, California|Palm Springs]], opened 1958]]
The second Robinson's store was opened in [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] in 1952  near the corner of [[Wilshire Boulevard]] at [[Santa Monica Boulevard]], across a courtyard from the [[Beverly Hilton Hotel]] (1953). A small [[Mid-Century modern]] style "open in winter only" store followed in [[Palm Springs, California|Palm Springs]]. A store on [[Colorado Boulevard]] in [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]] followed. The store in Pasadena was the last free standing store as the concept of the shopping mall began to take off. The first stores adjacent or connected to shopping malls opened in [[Panorama City]] in the [[San Fernando Valley]] (late 1950s), [[Anaheim Plaza]], on upper State Street in [[Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara]] (1960s), and [[Glendale, California|Glendale]]. By the time J.W. Robinson's was dissolved into Robinson's-May there were almost 30 stores across [[Southern California]] from [[San Diego, California|San Diego]] to [[Palm Desert]] to Santa Barbara.

Associated Dry Goods (ADG), a group of independently operated department store chains, bought Robinson's in 1957.

=== Acquisition by May and conversion to Robinsons-May ===
[[File:Robinsons-May Department Store Logo.png|thumb|Robinson's-May Company merger logo]]
[[May Department Stores]] bought [[Associated Dry Goods]] and with it, Robinson's, in 1986. In 1989, May dissolved its [[Scottsdale, Arizona]]-based [[Goldwaters]] division, folding it into Robinson's, and its Phoenix-area stores were rebranded as Robinson's.

In 1992, May combined Robinson's and [[May Company California]] into a single brand, [[Robinsons-May]].<ref name=lat-1992oct17>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-17-mn-82-story.html |title=Robinson's, May Co. to Merge Stores: Economy: Twelve Southland locations will close and 550 people will be laid off in the cost-cutting move |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 17, 1992 |first=George |last=White}}</ref> The Robinson's stores became, like the former May Co. locations, mid-range department stores, which market research firm NPD Group characterized as having an "identity crisis" because "they tried to be something for everyone and ended up being nothing for anyone". Federated Department Stores (which had bought Macy's in 1994 and changed its name in 2007 to [[Macy's, Inc.]]) bought May Department Stores in 2005. Robinson's-May was dissolved in 2005–6, and the former Robinson's stores were closed, sold, or turned into [[Macy's]] or [[Bloomingdale's]] branches.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Herman |first1=Valli |title=With Robinsons-May stores closing, few midrange department stores are left. Is shopping becoming polarized? Yes, and no. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-aug-06-et-fashion6-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=6 August 2005}}</ref>

== List of stores ==
California and Arizona Robinson's stores at merger with May Co. into Robinsons-May, 1992-3<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OtUiAQAAMAAJ "Department stores and apparel speciality store sales", 1982]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/177368825/?terms=j.%2Bw.%2Brobinson%27s |title=18 Oct 1992, Page 48 - Los Angeles Times at |publisher=Newspapers.com |date=1992-10-18 |access-date=2022-06-05}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Community
!Mall or address
!Opened
!Closed
!Square footage
!Notes
|-
|colspan=6|'''California'''	
|- 	
|1 Downtown Los Angeles (1915 store)
|[[Seventh Street (Los Angeles)|Seventh]], Hope & Grand
|September 7, 1915<ref name=palace/>
|February 1993
|{{convert|400000|sqft|sqm}} at opening,<ref name=shovels/><ref name=palace/> after 1923 expansion, {{convert|623700|sqft|sqm}}.<ref name=lat192301/>
|Frederick Noonan and [[William J. Dodd|William Richards of Dodd & Richards]], architects.<ref name=shovels/>

|-
|2 Beverly Hills
|9900 Wilshire Boulevard in a complex with the [[Beverly Hilton]]
|February 13, 1952<ref name=watters>{{cite news |last1=Watters |first1=Sam |title=Robinsons-May Beverly Hills: A shopping icon that may drop |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-hm-lostla14-2009mar14-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 14, 2009}}</ref>
|2006<ref name=watters/>
|236,000<ref name=dsm/>
| Demolished 2014. Architects [[William Pereira]] and [[Charles Luckman]]. Interiors by [[Raymond Loewy]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nichols |first1=Chris |title=A Look Back at Robinson's as the Glamorous Beverly Hills Store is Demolished |url=https://www.lamag.com/askchris/a-look-back-at-robinsons-as-the-glamorous-beverly-hills-store-is-demolished/ |publisher=Los Angeles magazine |date=July 23, 2014}}</ref> Site of '''One Beverly Hills''' ([[Richard Meier]] & Partners, architects).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Stevens |first1=Matt |title=Demolition of famed Beverly Hills department store begins |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-robinsons-beverly-hills-20140723-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 23, 2014}}</ref> 
|- 		
|3 Palm Springs
|333 South Palm Canyon Drive
|January 10, 1958<ref name=psp>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31252759/the-desert-sun/ "Robinson's celebrating 75th anniversary", ''Desert Sun''(Palm Springs, CA), January 9, 1958]</ref>
|1987<ref>{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Gavin |title=World Market Plan Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56111929/epilogue-jw-robinsons-palm-springs/ |publisher=Desert Sun (Palm Springs, CA) |date=October 28, 1988}}</ref>
| 
|Architects [[William Pereira]] and [[Charles Luckman]]. Interiors by [[Raymond Loewy]].<ref name=psp/> Expanded 1973. Currently used as "CAMP Community and Meeting Place".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.palmspringslife.com/modernism-week-camp-2020/|title=Where to CAMP Out at Modernism Week in Palm Springs|date=11 February 2020}}</ref>
|- 	
|4 Pasadena
|777 East [[Colorado Boulevard]]
|May 12, 1958<ref name=lat>{{cite news |title=Robinson's Pasadena Store to Open Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53011896/robinsons-pasadena-store-to-open-today/ |work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 12, 1958}}</ref>
|February 1993
|
|Architects [[William Pereira]] and [[Charles Luckman]]. Interiors by [[Raymond Loewy]]. Interiors by Had a parking structure for 700 cars.<ref name=lat/> Is now a [[Target Corporation|Target]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Pasadena |url=https://www.target.com/sl/pasadena/883 |website=Target |access-date=June 7, 2020}}</ref>
|- 	
|5 Panorama City
|Van Nuys at Chase, [[Panorama City Shopping Center]]
|June 27, 1961<ref name=pano>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45279335/panorama-city-store-opened-by/ "Panorama City Store Opened by Robinson's", ''Los Angeles Times'', June 28, 1961]</ref>
|
|169,000 sq. ft.<ref name=pano/> 
|
|-
|6 Anaheim
|[[Anaheim Plaza]]
|February 1963<ref name=dsm>[http://www.thedepartmentstoremuseum.org/2010/05/jw-robinson-co-los-angeles.html "The J.W. Robinson Co., Los Angeles", The Department Store Museum"]</ref>
|January 1988
|
|Closed six months after the one at [[MainPlace]] Mall in [[Santa Ana, California]] opened.
|-	
|7 Glendale
|[[Glendale Fashion Center]]<ref name=gfs>{{cite news |title=Glendale Fashion Center Has Anniversary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53027823/glendale-fashion-center-has-anniversary/ |work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 18, 1975}}</ref>
|August 1966<ref name=dsm/>
|February 1993
|150,000<ref name=dsm/>
|
|- 	
|8 Santa Barbara 
|[[La Cumbre Plaza]]
| July 1967<ref name=dsm/>
|
|155,000<ref name=dsm/>
| To be demolished, 2025<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pridgen |first1=Andrew |title=Historic department store in wealthy California town to be demolished |url=https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/historic-macys-store-california-demolished-20063629.php |access-date=5 February 2025 |work=SFGate |date=2 February 2025}}</ref> after the city found that the three-story, 1967 building has no historical significance architecturally, due to the era in which built, nor by association with any prominent individual.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Molina |first1=Joshua |title=Macy's Building Set for Demolition After Report Finds No Historical Significance {{!}} Local News |url=https://www.noozhawk.com/macys-building-set-for-demolition-after-report-finds-no-historical-significance/ |access-date=5 February 2025 |work=Noozhawk |date=28 January 2025}}</ref>
|- 	
|9 Newport Beach
|[[Fashion Island]]
|September 1967
|
|225,000<ref name=dsm/>
|
|- 	
|10 [[San Diego]]
|[[Fashion Valley Mall]]	
|September 1969<ref name=dsm/>
|
|172,000<ref name=dsm/>
|Now operates as a Bloomingdales.

|-	
|11 Cerritos
|[[Los Cerritos Center]]
|September 1971<ref name=dsm/>
|
|146,000 sq. ft.<ref name=dsm/>
|to Robinsons-May in 1993, closed 2006, became [[Nordstrom]] in 2010
|- 	
 	
|12 Woodland Hills
|[[The Promenade (California)|Woodland Hills Promenade]]
|March 1973<ref name=dsm/>
|February 1993 
|194,000<ref name=dsm/> 
|became [[Bullock's]], later [[Macy's]]
|- 	
|13 Puente Hills
|[[Puente Hills Mall]]	
|March 1974<ref name=dsm/>
|
|153,000<ref name=dsm/>
|Location seen in the “Twin Pines Mall” scenes of [[Back to the Future]].
|- 	
|14 Westminster
|[[Westminster Mall (California)|Westminster Mall]]
| April 1975<ref name=dsm/>
|February 1993
|160,000<ref name=dsm/> 
|became [[JCPenney]]
|-
|15 Santa Anita
|[[Santa Anita Fashion Park]], Arcadia
|April 19, 1976<ref>{{cite news |title=Robinson's to Open on Monday in Santa Anita Fashion Park |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52965433/robinsons-to-open-on-monday-in-santa/}}</ref> 
|
|137,000;<ref name=dsm/> 
|to Robinsons-May in 1993, closed 2006, became [[Forever 21]] in Nov. 2012
|- 		
|16 Thousand Oaks
|[[The Oaks (Thousand Oaks, California)|The Oaks]]
|1978<ref name=dsm/>
|
|127,000<ref name=dsm/>
|
|-	
|17 UTC
|[[Westfield UTC|University Towne Center]], La Jolla, San Diego
| 1978<ref name=dsm/>
|
|147,000<ref name=dsm/>
|
|- 	
|18 Mission Viejo
|[[Mission Viejo Mall]]
|1979<ref name=dsm/>
|
|
|
|- 		
|19 Santa Monica
|[[Santa Monica Place]]	
| 1980
|
|
|
|- 	
|20 Sherman Oaks
|[[Sherman Oaks Galleria]]
| 1980<ref name=dsm/>
|
|
|
|-	
|21 Del Amo
|[[Del Amo Fashion Center]]
| 1981
|
|
|
|-	
|23 Horton Plaza 
|[[Westfield Horton Plaza|Horton Plaza]], [[San Diego]]	
| 1985
|
|
|
|-
|24 Escondido
| [[North County Fair]]
| 1986
|
|
|
|-
|25 South Coast Plaza
|[[South Coast Plaza]] (Crystal Court), Costa Mesa
| 1986
|
|
|
|- 	
|26 Palm Desert
|[[Westfield Palm Desert]]	
| 1986
|
|
|to Robinsons-May in 1993, moved, became [[Sears]] in Nov. 2004
|- 	
|27 Santa Ana
|[[MainPlace Mall|MainPlace]]
| 1987
|
|
|
|- 
|28 Brea
|[[Brea Mall]]
|May 1991<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53026674/robinsons-brea-opening/|title = Robinson's Brea opening|newspaper = The Los Angeles Times|date = 16 May 1991|page = 233}}</ref>
|February 1993
|
|became JCPenney
|-

|- 	
 
|colspan=5|'''Arizona''' (''All formerly [[Goldwater's]]'')
|-
|Mesa
|[[Fiesta Mall]]
|
|
|
|
|- 	
|Phoenix
|[[Metrocenter (Phoenix, Arizona)|Metrocenter Mall]]
|
|
|
|
|- 	
|Phoenix
|[[Paradise Valley Mall]]
|
|
|
|
|- 	
|Phoenix
|[[Park Central Mall]]
|
|1990
|
|
|- 	
|Scottsdale
|[[Scottsdale Fashion Square]]
|
|
|
|
|}

== Expansions ==
=== Japan ===
{{see also|Robinson Department Store (Japan)}}
In addition, just before the acquisition by May, it had also cooperated with Ito-Yokado to form Robinson's Japan, with one location in Kasukabe, Saitama. In 2009, Robinson's Japan was acquired by [[Seven & I Holdings Co.]]

=== Robinson's Florida ===
Starting in 1972 ADG borrowed the Robinson's name to open a separate division of department stores, [[Robinson's of Florida]], on Florida's Gulf Coast and [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]], based in [[St. Petersburg, Florida]]. It had been founded in the 1970s as an attempt by ADG to emulate its [[luxury good|upscale]] J. W. Robinson's' stores on the fast-growing [[Florida]] [[Gulf Coast]]. This newly created division grew to 10 locations. May sold this division in 1987 to [[Maison Blanche]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iecbAAAAIBAJ&pg=4843,5614889&dq=south-gate-shopping-plaza%20robinson's&hl=en|title=Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Google News Archive Search}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB3678F02CB1737&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Miami Herald: Search Results}}</ref> Seven of the former Robinson's of Florida locations were subsequently sold by Maison Blanche to [[Dillard's]]* in 1991 while the other three became [[Gayfers]]** (which in turn was bought out by Dillard's in 1998).

== See also ==
* [[List of department stores converted to Macy's]]

== References ==
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