Macy’s in Philly closes
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But after 18 years, Macy’s is closing Sunday, and nobody knows the next time the storied space will be open to the public. After a final day of recitals on Saturday on the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, it’s unclear when people might be able to hear the instrument — one of the largest working pipe organs in the world — played again for free, as it has been six days a week for decades..
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/macys-center-city-eagle-statue-four-hours-20250321.html
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That’s sad. Department stores were conceived as grand spaces. Temples of consumerism perhaps. Pipe organs! Now we can peck out our orders of merchandise on our little keyboards.
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@ShiroKuro Around here, Macy's is the interloper. They took over the original Marshall Field's store on State Street.
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@ShiroKuro Around here, Macy's is the interloper. They took over the original Marshall Field's store on State Street.
@wtg said in Macy’s in Philly closes:
Macy's is the interloper. They took over the original Marshall Field's store on State Street.
I forgot about that!!
I never really shopped at Marshall Fields.... And actually, now that I think about it, when I was a little kid, the only dept stores I really knew were Macys and .... some department stores that we visited in PA when we visited my grandparents.... I wonder what stores they were...
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At Carson Pirie Scott, Sears, Weiboldts, Goldblatt’s, Lord & Taylor, and other long gone department stores that were once located in downtown Chicago, you might find something you liked. But at Marshall Field’s which is now Macy’s, you would always find something that you liked. Macy’s is a vast store to shop at. It looks like the internet is taking over as the preferred department store, a sign of the times.
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That’s sad. Department stores were conceived as grand spaces. Temples of consumerism perhaps. Pipe organs! Now we can peck out our orders of merchandise on our little keyboards.
@RealPlayer said in Macy’s in Philly closes:
That’s sad. Department stores were conceived as grand spaces. Temples of consumerism perhaps. Pipe organs!
Don't know if you've seen the series called Mr Selfridge on PBS. He started out at Marshall Field's and then opened his own iconic department store in London. Great story if you're into period dramas.
