The organ set Wanamaker’s apart from the city’s other well-known department stores. By the 1920s, the store hosted evening concerts that featured internationally renowned organists and ...

On Thursday, before the news broke publicly that Macy’s would be departing from Center City, the Wanamaker Building resonated with a long, sorrowful sigh. Dylan David Shaw, the organist on duty ...

The Wanamaker organ became a gauge for how the store navigated this urban and retail change. In 1966, Wanamaker’s longtime organist and musical director Mary Vogt retired. Classical organ music ...

Walk inside the doors of the soon-to-be closed Macy's department store in Center City Philadelphia and you can still hear that magical sound — the Wanamaker Organ. But not for much longer. Many ...

Today, the Wanamaker organ and the holiday light show are part of a pastiche of retail history that the city advertises to draw holiday crowds to the old Wanamaker building.

In 1917, for instance, advertisements in The Philadelphia Inquirer announced that the Wanamaker organist would play Yuletide selections until the new year. A full-page newspaper ad announcing the ...