Submitted by Trev_Takes_Photos t3_ztj3og in philadelphia
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emk544 t1_j1e00pq wrote
Don't mean to be pedantic, and this is a beautiful shot, but the current Wanamaker building was actually built around 1910. The original building, the "Grand Depot," was built in 1876. John Wanamaker replaced that original building piece-by-piece on the same site in the first decade of the 1900s. My source is a combination of Wikipedia and the fact that I've been to the roof - there is a cornerstone up there inlaid with John Wanamaker's name and the year the building was completed.
Resident_Ant_6794 t1_j1e9tgn wrote
Yeah, this is Macys.
RainyReese t1_j1ee7ms wrote
When I was a little girl, my mother would bring us kids downtown at Christmastime when downtown was somewhere to go as a special outing for holiday cheer and take us to the Wanamaker Building. We never bought anything but it was huge and decorated so extravagantly and this photo brings back memories.
napsdufroid t1_j1etn8f wrote
Stating facts isn't pedantic
haroldhabanero t1_j1f5umh wrote
This is awesome, nice work. Reminds me of a Guy Billout piece
respondstostupidity t1_j1gdkwx wrote
> the fact that I've been to the roof
Marvin must've liked you, or one of the staff was slippin with their duties :P
cheviot t1_j1gqurw wrote
This building used to have a beautiful entrance from the Market-Frankfort line, but all that was destroyed when the lower level was removed in the 1990s and replaced with a parking garage.
Trev_Takes_Photos OP t1_j1gqxtv wrote
Are there any photos of that!?
cheviot t1_j1grtbm wrote
Sure.
From a book published on the Market Street Subway's construction, printed in 1908.
explorewithdora t1_j1h04v3 wrote
Yo yo, former worker at the cafe in the lobby. Not sure if it's still open since this was 2019, but there is a connection between the BSL concourse into the building. It's not exactly nice down there, but the stairs up into the lobby are quite grand.
aarrtee t1_j1hab2n wrote
another winner from u, dude.
bravo.
ezmessinger t1_j1hkndv wrote
What a photo
blowjob215 t1_j1hyzpx wrote
You must be new here
The-Sand-King t1_j1ioe7o wrote
Was that stairwell that leads to the parking garage part of that entrance?
cheviot t1_j1ip7ko wrote
When you exit 13th street station on the south side of the EL you come to a set of locked glass doors. Inside are two stairways leading up and a locked door in the middle of a large sealed up opening straight ahead. Straight ahead used to lead directly into The Wanamaker Building. That doorway straight ahead now leads to parking level 2.
The stairways leading up go to one of the north entrances of the Wanamaker building (and possibly to the long closed 13th St Station mezzanine)
emk544 t1_j1op6xn wrote
I’m an engineer who was working with a developer on some plans to renovate the upper floors. Those plans never panned out
ant_gargano t1_j1dr6c8 wrote
Beautiful