The Wanamaker department store’s light show was such a seminal part of growing up in Philadelphia. Over the past few decades, as Wanamaker’s was sold and resold to various owners, Philadelphians were as anxious as they get over the Eagles: “Will we still have the light show?”
Of course I was one of the little kids lying on the floor to watch the show, and I brought my own kids. My grandkids live in another state, they’ll never know what it was like. They will have their own traditions.
