Sixth Day of Christmas – Light snowfall on a decorated Penn Street in the 1940s. Pictured is both Whitner’s and Pomeroy’s Department stores.
I remember my mother and I went for my first haircut at Whitners. Till today, I still have my little…
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Are there any photos of the employees from the 1930-40s? I’m researching family and someone worked there.
Interesting, I never knew granite could be “cast”.
Went here for a school ski trip with SV back in 7th grade in probably 1993 and had a blast.…
It closed in 1997. I worked there for the last year it existed in the mall, sometimes manning the back…
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As a kid, I thought the sixth floor of Pomeroy’s at Christmas time was the most wonderful place on earth!
This was before the traffic circle at 5th and penn.