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i just loved that his title is "citizen." translation: super rich guy. incidentally, our b&b room was named after him.
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"There's Nothing Half so Chic in Fashion as the Last New Frock"
Harper's Bazaar, Mar. 1915
Wanamaker Organ (1904 - George Ashdown Audsley / Los Angeles Art Organ Company)
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Wanamaker Eagle ( 1904 - August Gaul)
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I was not a kid who ran screaming from Santas. I knew when I was in the presence of the real thing, and nothing could possibly go wrong.
This is a modern organ called the John Wanamaker Court Organ in downtown Philadelphia. It is the biggest organ in the world.
Count the keyboards. All those buttons on the right are called stops - they all make the organ produce different sounds when they are pulled out. If you want the organ to be very loud, you would "pull out all the stops." That is an expression that means "do your very best with everything you have." That is what I hope you and I are doing today!
My Dad also gave me this metal my Grandfather was awarded in 1937, for a children’s drawing competition. My Dad couldn’t draw to save his life, but my Pop Pop was pretty good. I remember he drew me and my brothers in charcoal when we were younger, from our school photos. Pretty neat little piece of his history. #grandpop #poppop #grandfather #williamhtaft #johnwanamaker #1937