>You succeeded in making me both nostalgic and home sick all at once.
>Apparently you can still meet under the Eagle but it is a Macy's now.
>I hope the Warthog is still there.
Does Macy's have somebody playing the organ?
The bronze iggle is still in the Macy's Philadelphia store by city hall.
The daily organ concerts continue--used to be concerts at store opening,
noon, afternoon, and at closing. The Wanamaker organ is one of the
largest pipe organs in the world. The bronze wild boar, Il Porcellino,
[a copy of the one in Florence, Italy] was at the Strawbridge and
Clothier store in Philly, but I don't know where it is since the store
closed [after Macy's bought it].
iggle: http://www.photosofphiladelphia.com/photo_963859.html
Organ:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/arts/music/09orga.html/partner/rssnyt/?_r=1&oref=slogin
Il Porcellino: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PorcellinoFlorence.jpg
I used to work nearby and would often go to the store to hear the
concerts, and yes, we'd stroke the boar's snout for good luck at
Strawbridge's too.
Betty
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