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35 S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA
Now the Old Nelson Food Company
from www.citypaper.net/articles/112797/cov.13.side.shtml :
The Binder Building (29-41 S. 13th St.)
"Home of the Binder Company hairdressers and makers of wigs, toupees and soaps. According to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, Richard Binder, who commissioned the building in 1887, was one of the most successful hairdressers in 19th- and early 20th-century Philadelphia. Before the 1860s most hairdressing was done in the home. Binder was one of only 100 hairdressers in Philadelphia, most of whom did not have stores."
The statue of John Wanamaker, designed by Scottish-American sculptor John Massey Rhind, was dedicated at City Hall East Plaza on Thanksgiving Day, November 29, 1923.
John Wanamaker (1838-1922), a Philadelphia native, was a pioneer in marketing and retail. At age 23 he opened his first clothing store. In 1876 he opened his Grand Depot in the abandoned Pennsylvania Railroad, and then 1911 opened the larger Wanamaker's on the same site. Wanamaker helped usher in a new era in retail merchandising with his one-price system, guaranteed merchandise and return policy. He served as United States Postmaster General from 1889 to 1893 where he helped introduce rural free delivery, post offices at sea and several other services taken for granted today. Wanamaker was also the first full time paid secretary for the YMCA from 1868 to 1861, a he founded the Bethany Sunday School in Philadelphia in 1859, which became the largest Sunday School in the country at the time.
The Greek Room - original board room in the John Wanamaker Building. They use it for overstock during the holidays, and I sneak in every year to have a look at the historic room.
The statue of John Wanamaker, designed by Scottish-American sculptor John Massey Rhind, was dedicated at City Hall East Plaza on Thanksgiving Day, November 29, 1923.
John Wanamaker (1838-1922), a Philadelphia native, was a pioneer in marketing and retail. At age 23 he opened his first clothing store. In 1876 he opened his Grand Depot in the abandoned Pennsylvania Railroad, and then 1911 opened the larger Wanamaker's on the same site. Wanamaker helped usher in a new era in retail merchandising with his one-price system, guaranteed merchandise and return policy. He served as United States Postmaster General from 1889 to 1893 where he helped introduce rural free delivery, post offices at sea and several other services taken for granted today. Wanamaker was also the first full time paid secretary for the YMCA from 1868 to 1861, a he founded the Bethany Sunday School in Philadelphia in 1859, which became the largest Sunday School in the country at the time.
The Greek Room - original board room in the John Wanamaker Building. They use it for overstock during the holidays, and I sneak in every year to have a look at the historic room.
John Wanamaker's after the awards: Lizz P-Z, Victor Dover, Maricé Chael, mayor Connie Moran from Ocean Springs, me