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The Pennsylvania Guide, compiled by the Writers' Program of the Works Progress Administration, described Laporte in 1940 as: [7] a mountain resort founded in 1847 and named for John Laporte, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania, [and] formerly a lumbering and tannery center. Wide verandas front many of the houses.
John Wanamaker, who founded the store chain in 1861 John Wanamaker's on Market Street in 1876 The Grand Court in the Wanamaker Store in Philadelphia, showing the organ façade at the south end in 1917 The flagship store directory. John Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1838.
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Snellenburg's Department Store, 1100 Market St., Philadelphia, PA (1886-87, demolished), in a c. 1915 photograph. The company moved from its South Street location, where it was founded in 1869 by Joseph Snellenburg, to fashionable 12th and Market Streets in 1889. [2] The store was at a location known as the "Girard Estate."
The Center City Philadelphia flagship store was, in its day, a gracious urban emporium. The retailer started adding branch stores starting in the 1930s and, by their zenith in the 1980s, enjoyed annual sales of over a billion dollars [ 1 ] By the 1990s, Strawbridge's became part of the May Department Stores conglomerate until May's acquisition ...
Its county seat is Laporte. [2] The county was created on March 15, 1847, from part of Lycoming County and named for Major General John Sullivan. The county is part of the Northeast Pennsylvania region of the state. [a]
The Fresh Grocer is a supermarket chain based in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania that operates twenty-four stores in the greater Philadelphia and the greater Scranton areas of Pennsylvania, as well as one store in the greater Pittsburgh area, and northern New Jersey and Long Island, New York. [1]
Laporte Township is a township in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 404 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ] Note that Laporte Township surrounds the borough of Laporte .