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recitals are held twice every day except Sunday. Visitors are also invited to tour the organ's console area and meet with staff after recitals. Once a year, usually in June, "Wanamaker Organ Day" is held, which is a free recital which lasts most of the day. The New York store also housed a large organ; it was sold at auction in 1955 for $ 1,200 (~$ 10,655 in 2023) after the New York store closed the year prior.
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major say in determining store offerings and the magnificence of its commercial space did tend to cause it to be stocked with better offerings. Other retailers had also learned to offer goods with much smaller staff rosters. The ability of retailers to go national in opposition to regional tastes is still an experiment-in-progress with mixed results.
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pipe organ, at the time one of the world's largest organs. The organ was installed in the store's marble-clad central atrium known as the Grand Court. Another item from the St. Louis Fair in the Grand Court is the large bronze eagle, which quickly became the symbol of the store and a favorite meeting
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His employees were to be treated respectfully by management (including not being scolded in public), and John
Wanamaker & Company offered its employees access to the John Wanamaker Commercial Institute, as well as free medical care, recreational facilities, profit sharing plans, and pensions—long
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beginning in 1922. Under the leadership of James Bayard
Woodford, Wanamaker's opened piano stores in Philadelphia and New York that did a huge business with an innovative fixed-price system of sales. Salons in period decor were used to sell the higher-price items. Wanamaker also tried selling small
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Philadelphia's first modern-day department store, and one of the earliest founded in America. A circular counter was placed at the center of the building, and concentric circles radiated around it with 129 counters of goods. The store also accepted mail orders, though it was not a
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several times over a period of years. The "Wanamaker Organ" is the largest fully operational pipe organ in the world, with some 28,750 pipes. It is famed for the delicate, orchestra-like beauty of its tone as well as its incredible power. The organ still stands in place in the store today and free
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became the show's narrator. Also in 2006, the Santa
Express Train at the top of the Grand Court returned. In 2007, the entire Christmas Light Show was completely modernized and rebuilt by Macy's Parade Studio on new trusses with lighter materials and LED lighting. In 2008, a new and bigger Magic
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Wanamaker Building space was more valuable than portions of the historic Wanamaker store, the Philadelphia flagship store was reduced to its first five stories, the Juniper Street side became the lobby of an office building for the upper stories, and the former basement budget
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Crystal Tea Room restaurant on the 9th floor, which closed to the public in 1995; it was restored as a private banquet hall, accommodating sit-down receptions of up to 1,000 people. A Wanamaker's guidebook from the 1920s states that the Crystal Tea Room was the
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In 2008, Macy's celebrated its 150th birthday in the
Philadelphia flagship store with a concert featuring the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra that attracted a capacity audience. Currently only 3 floors of the building are still used as department store sales area.
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Wanamaker guaranteed the quality of his merchandise in print, allowed his customers to return purchases for a cash refund and offered the first restaurant to be located inside a department store. Wanamaker also invented the price tag.
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Philadelphia. The new store, built in the Florentine style with granite walls by Chicago architect
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Philadelphia called Oak Hall. Wanamaker carried on the business alone after Brown's death in 1868. Eight years later, Wanamaker purchased the abandoned
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for US$ 60 million (~$ 220 million in 2023) cash in 1978. Carter Hawley Hale poured another $ 80 million into renovating the stores, but to no avail—customers had gone elsewhere in the intervening decades and did not come back.
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referred to Facenda as "The Voice of God". His wordsmithing and dramatic baritone delivery were highlights of the shows and did much to boost Facenda's stock and mystique. Various announcers narrated the show between 1995 and 2005.
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use its facilities as a meeting place, while Wanamaker provided 300 ushers from his store personnel. His retail advertisements—the first to be copyrighted beginning in 1874—were factual, and promises made in them were kept.
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3rd floor: Egyptian Hall auditorium behind the executive offices, also a Greek Hall auditorium. As of 2008, the architecture of Egyptian Hall is obscured by the Executive Offices and Dickens Christmas Village.
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There was also a balcony café, the Terrace on the Court, on the third floor facing the Grand Court, where shoppers could hear the Wanamaker Organ as they dined. Macy's closed this restaurant in 2008.
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for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exhibition and purchased by John Wanamaker; to this day, Philadelphians frequently agree to "meet me at the eagle" at Wanamaker's.
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place for shoppers. All one had to say was "Meet You at The Eagle" and everyone knew where to go. The store was dedicated by President
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façade. In 1877, the interior of Wanamaker's was refurbished and expanded to include not only men's clothing, but women's clothing and
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station for use as a new, larger retail location. The concept was to renovate the terminal into a "Grand Depot" similar to London's
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division in Arlington, Virginia. After 133 consecutive years, the Wanamaker's name was removed from all stores and replaced with
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in 1952; the initials on the building's crown read "PNB" until November 2014, even though the bank no longer existed.
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Solis-Cohen, Lita (February 22, 1988). "Sotheby's to Auction Wanamakers' 19th-Century Art". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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in 1950. After the New York store closed in 1954, Wanamaker's expanded to the Philadelphia suburbs, starting with the
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on June 21, 1995. Wanamaker's Inc. was formally dissolved, and operations were consolidated with May's
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Arceneaux, Noah. "Wanamaker's Department Store and the Origins of Electronic Media, 1910–1922."
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1846:"Why Mannequin Is the Best Movie Ever Made About Philadelphia"
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1886:"Phillywood: 7 key sites in Philly movie history"
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1784:Arrigale, Lawrence M.; Keels, Thomas H. (2012).
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1799:Lisicky, Michael J. (2010).
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1516:Shope, Dan (July 18, 1986).
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1943:(Arcadia Publishing, 2012).
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