Time Stands Still Photograph by World Reflections By Sharon

Time Stands Still

by World Reflections By Sharon

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Title

Time Stands Still

Artist

World Reflections By Sharon

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

"Macy’s Herald Square, originally known as the R. H. Macy and Company Store, is the flagship of Macy’s department stores, located on Herald Square in Manhattan, New York City.

The building’s 2.2 million square feet (almost 205,000 square meters) made it the world’s largest department store from 1924 until 2009, when the South Korean chain Shinsegae opened a store of nearly 3.16 million square feet (293,905 square meters) in Busan.

Built in 1902, Macy’s Herald Square was the first building in the world to have the modern day escalator. The wooden escalators are still in use today!

Macy’s was founded by Rowland Hussey Macy, who between 1843 and 1855 opened four retail dry goods stores, including the original Macy’s store in downtown Haverhill, Massachusetts. They all failed, but apparently he learned from his mistakes.

Macy moved to New York City in 1858 and established a new store named “R.H Macy Dry Goods” at Sixth Avenue on the corner of 14th Street.

On the company’s first day of business on October 28, 1858 sales totaled $11.08, equal to $301.47 today.

From the very beginning, Macy’s logo has included a star in one form or another, which comes from a tattoo that Macy got as a teenager when he worked on a Nantucket whaling ship.

As the business grew, Macy’s expanded into neighboring buildings, opening more and more departments, and used publicity devices such as a store Santa Claus, themed exhibits, and illuminated window displays to draw in customers.

The store later moved to 18th Street and Broadway, on the “Ladies’ Mile”, the elite shopping district of the time, where it remained for nearly forty years.

In 1902, the flagship store moved uptown to Herald Square at 34th Street and Broadway, so far north of the other main dry goods emporia that it had to offer a steam wagonette to transport customers from 14th Street to 34th Street.

Although the Herald Square store initially consisted of just one building, it expanded through new construction, eventually occupying almost the entire block bounded by Seventh Avenue on the west, Broadway on the east, 34th Street on the south and 35th Street on the north and was on its way to becoming the world’s largest store.

It is believed that The Siegel-Cooper Department Store, which had built what they thought was the world’s largest store on Sixth Avenue in 1896, tried to prevent Macy’s area expansion by asking Robert H. Smith, who was a neighbor of the Macy’s store on 14th Street, to purchase a small 5-story building on the corner of 34th Street and Broadway for $375,000 – an incredible sum in 1900 – with the idea of getting in the way of Macy’s becoming the largest store in the world.

Macy’s ignored the tactic, and simply built around the building, which now carries Macy’s “shopping bag” sign by lease arrangement. That building earned the name Million Dollar Corner when it was finally sold for a then record $1,000,000 on December 6, 1911." from website