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 think they might be my family. I would love to trace my roots. I was born Carole Ann Hoch.…
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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.