It's a 'friendly rivalry' between Atlantic City's record-breaking organ and the Wanamaker Organ that surpasses it in sets of ...
John Wanamaker bought the organ from the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis and shipped it to Philadelphia in 1909. The massive instrument had to be carried in 13 freight train cars. "So around 1911 ...
The instrument — an artifact of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair — is often called the ... It is physically woven into the store in the Wanamaker Building, with parts of it on the second ...