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Wanamaker's from South Penn Square The second Wanamaker's at 770 Broadway, NYC Innovation and "firsts" marked Wanamaker's. The store was the first department store with electrical illumination (1878), first store with a telephone (1879), and the first store to install pneumatic tubes to transport cash and documents (1880).
Wanamaker was born in the Grays Ferry section of South Philadelphia on July 11, 1838. [2] to John Nelson Wanamaker, a brickmaker and native of Kingwood, New Jersey, and Elizabeth Deshong Kochersperger, daughter of a farmer and innkeeper in Gray's Ferry.
Arlington Village was the sixth FHA project built by Gustave Ring in 1939. It was designed by Harvey Warwick, a Washington architect who had designed Colonial Village with Ring in 1935. Ring and Warwick applied the concept of the successful Colonial Village to Arlington Village.
John Wanamaker (1838–1922), American merchant, founder of Wanamaker's Department Store, considered by some to be the father of modern advertising; Madeleine Wanamaker (born 1995), American rower; Reuben Melville Wanamaker (1866–1924), American judge from Ohio Supreme; Rick Wanamaker (born 1948), American athlete and basketball player
Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (February 13, 1863 – March 9, 1928) was an American businessman and heir to the Wanamaker's department store fortune. [1] In addition to operating stores in Philadelphia , New York City , and Paris , he was a patron of the arts, education, golf, athletics , a Native American scholarship, and of early aviation.
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Rodman Wanamaker sponsored Dixon, who named the project "the Rodman Wanamaker Expeditions to the Indians". Dixon was the "educational director" (essentially a public relations worker) of Philadelphia department store Wanamaker's. Wanamaker's had been founded in 1876 by Rodman's father John Wanamaker. By the turn of the century, it had grown ...
A city of Topeka building interior permit was issued to The HomeGoods chain of home furnishing stores at Wanamaker Square, 1900 S.W. Wanamaker Road.