Kmart 4003

Kmart #4003 was a Kmart discount department store located at La Rinda Plaza, 14701 West Rinaldi Street in San Fernando, California. The store opened January 25, 1962 and closed unknown. "On January 25, 1962, the first store under the Kmart name opened, one that was generally thought of as a “test” Kmart in California’s San Fernando Valley, a store of only 24,000 square feet." - http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com/2008/04/ss-kresges-pre-k-days.html "Kresge's opened a bantam K-mart store January 25 in Discount City, U.S.A., San Fernando, Calif. Originally planned as a regular Kresge variety-department store, the San Fernando K-mart operation is much smaller than the king-size K-marts opened in Garden City and Pontiac. The decision to convert to a K-mart discount operation was made in the early stages of the center's development. The San Fernando K-mart is managed by Dell E. Temanson, formerly a district manager in the Midwestern region. The San Fernando store also offers customers credit through the Kresge Thrifty Charge Plan" - Kresge News, April 1962, page three "The S.S. Kresge Co. has signed for space at Discount City, U.S.A. for a unit of its K-Mart Discount stores, an operation patterned on self-service discount house methods and already tested in eastern states. It is scheduled to open within 30 days." - Valley News - November 5, 1961, Van Nuys, California, p. 35