Thanks for the walk through of my Great-Great-Uncle's Departments Store. I've never been there myself but I hope to check it out one day. My younger brother Greg was born in Landisville PA 1988, our Dad was Air Force so we moved around a lot. After he got discharged from the Air Force we moved to WA state, where me and my Mom and brothers are all located now, because that's where his parents lived for support. According to my Mother, my Dad went to that Department Store all the time, but my Mother was never allowed to go shopping there because he was afraid she would never leave if she did. I've read about the store in a high school and two college history classes in our textbooks. I know it opened in 1876-1978, after my Great-Great Uncle John Wanamaker died in 1922, his family took it over for 56 years and then finally sold it off and it was resold multiple times. I also got to conduct a Music Appreciation college research paper on the "Wanamaker Pipe Organ" during my first semester of college. I definitely hope to walk through the store myself one day and also hear the Pipe Organ play as well. A few other interesting things that not to many other people know about John Wanamaker he was the 35th Post Master General for the U.S. and the man who invited the price tag. The Wanamaker department store was the very first department store in the U.S. and it opened shortly after the very first department store opened in Europe. In the early 1900's radio towers were placed on the top of the department store both in Philadelphia PA & there later store in Manhattan NY on Wanamaker Street, in which I've been to that store in Manhattan which has a 3 story K-Mart, Facebook offices, and a clothing store called "The Loft". But the radio towers were the first ones to receive the S.O.S. from the sinking of the Titanic and then the Wanamaker Department Stores spread the word through both radio and their own newspaper stands.

@mannyistheman2221

9 ай бұрын

Christopher, your great - great uncle built an amazing place. Macy's isn't fit to call themselves a department store. They are a joke compared to what your family created. I love watching the Mannequin (1987). It shows your family's old department store before the building was permanently ruined. The Old John Wanamaker Store was magical.

HEREE WE AREE!!!!!

I use to love going there when I was a kid

Back in the late 70s/early 80s, you could go down to the basement and there was a ticket booth where you could buy tickets for concerts at the Spectrum. I paid $12.50 (with tax) for a ticket to see Heart at the Spectrum in 1980. The day of the concert, I managed to get the drummer, Michael Derosier, to autograph my ticket stub. I was sorry you did not go down but maybe you can't anymore.

@mannyistheman2221

9 ай бұрын

The Basement Levels are now an underground parking garage for the Wanamaker Building :(

Yes Captain, you're so very right it is definitely beginning to look like Christmas time...The classic store perfect as always for the Christmas 🌲 season holidays and anytime year round...

Also where Mannequin was filmed back in the day. I hope you will have again that Xmas musical video like you did last fall from City Hall...We wish you a merry Xmas and a happy new year....Ok Captain, tis the season once again, later on and TOODLES...

Happy Wed Philly Captain, midweek to Friday...There you were downtown Center City at Macys via the classic John Wanamakers Bldg...Very exciting and a terrific walking tour video...

It's sad that the holidays get rushed n they just don't have the same feeling as they did when we were kids 🙁

I love the light show here and Dickens Village. This year they are only doing one show a day. I am so bummed.

I grew up with this Christmas spectacular in the 70s best childhood memories ever The 70s was the best 🥰🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄🤶🎅🧚🧚🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🎁🎁🎀🎁🎉♥️♥️♥️🪅🧸🧸

Macy's is CHEAP with the air conditioning in the summer. When Wanamaker's was in that space and even Lord and Taylor; there was never an issue with the Heat or Air Conditioning in that building. I was at an after hours Wanamaker Organ Concert in the Summer. The AC was ON but it only took the edge off. It wasn't super cool as it used to be.

Hey Cap and shout out to the Eagle...

The other question is how do you get to the floors that are not used by the department store particularly the 7 stories in which the actual organ pipes take-up of the 15-story building, ( note that area of the building is not occupied by the department store but the 9th floor is used for weddings and balls ).

Hello captain. Whats this building now ? Thank you for all the videos you do !! Let hope the mayor gets your Twitter ! Enjoy your night captain !!

@ThePhillyCaptain

2 жыл бұрын

It's a Macy's

I love this video. I wanted to share until you called Karl Laggerfield a douche and said Christmas shit. LOL~ Thank you for letting us walk thru Macy's one of my favorite stores but dont believe I was ever in this one, I am in NJ.

@cathytilghman

2 жыл бұрын

The old buildings in Philly are absolutely amazing! I love the museums and Please Touch Museum, some of these buildings they will never make again in this country. Thank you for this video. You curse worse than me! lol

@cathytilghman

2 жыл бұрын

I AM going to share this, if people cant deal with a few gritty words, too bad!

Why didn't you take the elevators? They're right next to the escalator .. which are always broken, your're right about that.

@ThePhillyCaptain

2 жыл бұрын

I like the exercise. Those elevators aren't clean.

Who has a gold membership ??

He talks to a hand puppet / major issues goin on there Bro