Hensheys Merch

Description: Remembering Henshey's Department Store in Santa Monica, California. Henshey's was a cool department store in Downtown Santa Monica, California. It was founded by Harry Henshey and was the first department store on Los Angeles' Westside. It opened in 1925 as the Bay Department Store, at four stories and 25,000 square feet, far larger than any store in the city. It later expanded to 65,000 square feet.The Henshey's building was a steel frame and brick structure in the Beaux Arts Classical Revival style featuring "bays of paired windows embellished with terra cotta details, as well as an imposing cornice and a terra cotta frieze." It had the first escalators on the Westside, but retained one elevator with a human operator until its closure.