Mr. Gimbel was born in Philadelphia and spent his boyhood ... which later developed into one of the largest department stores in the metropolis. In 1923 he resigned as vicepresident of the store ...

Retailer Macy's is closing its store on Market Street in Center City, City Council member Mark Squilla said Thursday.

Are big holiday department store displays a ghost of Christmas past? Earlier this month, the Philadelphia Business Journal reported that the Wanamaker Building, which also includes office spaces ...

Some of us circled the toys and left the catalog open to strategic pages for all to see. Or tore out pages and added them to ...

still has a larger gross from its small department stores and small-town chains. Gimbel’s’, solely an operating company, is only in bigger cities, as Manhattan, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and ...

His wife dubbed it the Slinky. James demonstrated the Slinky in 1945 at Gimbels Department store in Philadelphia during Christmas season and it became an instant hit with kids. The Dy-Dee and ...

The phrase's use in relation to shopping the day after Thanksgiving, however, is most often traced to Philadelphia ... it gives them,” a Gimbels department store sales manager told The ...