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2 unusual facts about John Wanamaker


John MacKay Shaw

Shaw’s involvement in business began at age sixteen when he enrolled in a program of business training organized by John Wanamaker.

Joseph Nathan Kane

There he interviewed many important people including John Wanamaker.


Broadway Stores

After attempting an ill-fated, unsuccessful hostile takeover of Marshall Field in 1977, the company acquired the venerable but tattered John Wanamaker's of Philadelphia for $60 million (cash) in April 1978.

Luther Standing Bear

Standing Bear interpreted and recruited students for Pratt at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, led the Carlisle Indian Band across the Brooklyn Bridge upon its opening ceremony on May 24, 1883, and served as a student intern for John Wanamaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


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