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bensh_ t1_ixx0u7i wrote

Reply to comment by 1live4downvotes in How Philly came to call its downtown ‘Center City’ by MonkeyPanls

Originally there wasn't going to be a 13th St station, but one John Wanamaker insisted on having a stop right outside his department store.

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electric_ranger t1_ixypgqu wrote

John Wannamaker, the first Philadelphian to show off his massive organ outside a subway stop

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