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Chestnut Street is a major historic street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was originally named Wynne Street because Thomas Wynne's home was there. William Penn renamed it Chestnut Street in 1684. It runs east–west from the Delaware River waterfront in downtown Philadelphia through Center City and West Philadelphia.
The store also broadcast its organ concerts on the Wanamaker-owned radio station WOO 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.
Urn with Egyptian figures, part of a six-piece tea and coffee service, J.E. Caldwell & Company, Philadelphia, c. 1875. J.E. Caldwell & Co. was a major jewelry retailer and one-time silversmith in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company was founded at 163 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, by watchmaker James Emmot Caldwell in 1839.
On December 14, 2018, Wawa opened a flagship location at 6th Street and Chestnut Street in Center City, Philadelphia. The store, at 11,500 square feet (1,070 m 2), is the largest Wawa location and features a living greenery wall, large digital screens, couches, café seating, and two "Philly Firsts" murals. [64] On December 18, 2020, Wawa ...
818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, site of first U.S. Automat, with original Horn & Hardart sign still up in July 2020 Newspaper ad from 1922 for the 25 Philadelphia locations of Horn and Hardart automats, restaurants, and cafeterias, claiming that the equivalent of one out of every sixteen people in the city ate in one of their establishments daily
A crowd of young people is accused of breaking into Philadelphia stores and looting them. The police commissioner said around 100 people were in the crowd at one point.
The store gradually expanded eastward to Eighth Street. [19] In 1927 an extension south to Chestnut Street was completed and the store now comprised an entire city block, [20] making it for a time the largest department store in the world. [19] In 1977 Gimbels moved to The Gallery mall across Market Street. The original buildings were ...
Allen's or Allen's department store, a.k.a. George Allen, Inc., was a large store in Center City, Philadelphia for women's clothing and accessories. It opened at 326 High Street in 1837 and moved to 1214 Chestnut Street in 1896.