 The store had one entrance on each of its four sides, all but one in the center of the block.The company was bought in 1925 by the B.F. Schlesinger Company (which also owned The City of Paris store in San Francisco, Schlesinger & Sons in Oakland, and Rhodes Brothers in Tacoma).At that time, Olds, Wortman & King was one of the largest retail businesses in the city and was employing 1,200 people.