I worked at Wanamaker’s department store in downtown Philadelphia for about three months in late 1975. I had finished college and couldn’t find a job so I became a stockboy for $2.25 an hour in the curtains, bedspreads, and draperies department. The building was really old. It opened in 1911. It had a hand-operated elevator … Continue reading Macy’s (in the old Wanamaker’s building) is closing