Whitner’s Store – Reading, PA (circa 1911)
There was a time when the booming city of Reading boasted several great department stores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading,_Pennsylvania In 1877, Calvin K. Whitner opened a dry goods
There was a time when the booming city of Reading boasted several great department stores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading,_Pennsylvania In 1877, Calvin K. Whitner opened a dry goods
The Nightly Parade of “Rolling Chairs” – Atlantic City (1912)Thousands of vacationers descended on Atlantic City each summer day in the early years of thetwentieth
Wanamaker’s, the gigantic department store filling an entire city block near City Hall, dominated the commercial landscape of Philadelphia for several generations. I did not
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