Vintage Walker's Department Store Credit Charge Card San Diego CA 1950-60's

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Walker's Department Store Charge Card, circa 1950-60's.
Walker Scott, also Walker-Scott or Walker's, was a chain of department stores in San Diego and surrounding area from 1935 to 1986.  It was founded by Ralf Marc (or R.M.) Walker and George A. Scott.
Trained under Arthur Letts at Los Angeles' Broadway department store, Ralf Marc Walker was the co-founder/co-worker owner of the 125,000-square-foot department store known as the Fifth Street Store at Fifth and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, established in 1905.
Walker also owned what would later become known as the Houdini Mansion in Laurel Canyon. He died six months before the opening of the San Diego store on October 3, 1935.
George A. Scott (1907-1993) was a protégé of Walker, who had sent him to the New York University of Retailing and had treated him as a son; the two men had a very close personal relationship.
In 1935, the former Holzwasser's department store building, in San Diego's downtown shopping district at the northwest corner of 5th and Broadway, had been sitting empty for over two years after the 1933 liquidation of Holzwasser's, once San Diego's largest department store.  The Spanish Colonial Revival building had been built in 1919; John Terrel Vawter was the architect.
Scott and Walker traveled to San Diego to investigate the possibilities of opening a branch of Walker's in the ex-Holzwasser space, and decided to do so. They renovated the interior and the first and second floors of the exterior; the Quayle Brothers were the architects for this renovation.  Seven days before the planned grand opening, Walker died, on September 25, 1935.
Product Dimensions: 2.5" X 3.5", shipping weight: 2 ounces.
PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTION AND PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The card is in overall Fair to Good Minus used condition with signs of wear, creases, fading, sunning and age toning, soiling, stains, writing, no odors, please see images.
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