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ABANDONED PHILADELPHIA ROOSEVELT BLVD TUNNELS
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if your from philadelphia im sure you drove by these tunnels plenty of times and didn't even know they were there, well lets uncover the roosevelt boulevard tunnel under one of the most dangerous roadways in all of America, below will be some information about the former sears location and the subway station that was built in the proposed roosevelt blvd subway.. • • Sears, originally Sears, Roebuck and Company, focused on catalogue marketing to farm households. When the economic Panic of 1893 set in, Roebuck sold his interest in the firm to Julius Rosenwald, a Chicago clothing manufacturer who was one of their larger creditors. By 1908, Rosenwald had become the company’s president and Sears prospered under his leadership. In 1919, Julius decided to expand the company’s catalogue business to Philadelphia and sent his son Lessing Rosenwald to scout out a suitable location. Lessing identified a 120-acre farm located ideally at the junction of two railroads, the Pennsylvania and the Reading, which would compete for Sears’ business with their best possible services and freight rates. Philadelphia was the site of Sears’ fourth mail order facility. The company would eventually have 14 of them with Philadelphia being its second largest in facility with over 5,000,000 square feet of space, second in sales volume, and employing 7,000. • Lessing stayed on in Philadelphia as the mail order facility’s general manager from its opening in 1920 until 1929. He eventually became the chairman of Sears from 1932 until 1939. After 1939, Lessing devoted his life to collecting rare books and art and managing the family charity. In 1941, he donated 2,600 rare books to the Library of Congress and prints and drawings to the National Gallery of Art. These came from his collection housed in the gallery wing of his home, Alverthorpe Manor, that he had built in Jenkintown in 1939. Lessing’s family charity was a major benefactor making fellowship grants to African American artists, writers, researchers, and intellectuals and to various Jewish charities. • Sears branched out into department store retail sales and added a location the Philadelphia mail order plant in October 1925. This was the company’s fifth outlet. 30 years later, Sears built a stand-alone three story department store within the Roosevelt Boulevard complex. • The grand opening of this new store on August 10, 1955 occurred near the peak of Sears’ success as America’s largest retailer, with 400,000 employees and $19 billion in annual sales. The opening was the occasion for a grand celebration with the company’s chairman cutting the ribbon. Lessing returned as the event’s honored guest and renewed acquaintances with many who knew him as their former boss while chatting with many long-service employees. That day the new store’s 1,100 employees served 30,000 customers. • credits to - https://hiddencityphila.org/2024/08/w... • Roosevelt Blvd subway • The route was first proposed in 1913 as part of the Broad Street Subway line from Adams Avenue • The Roosevelt Boulevard Subway is a proposed SEPTA Metro line that would run along Roosevelt Boulevard in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. • The line has been proposed in various forms for over a century, the idea originally dating to 1913. The most recent study, conducted in 2003, envisions the service as a branch of the Broad Street Line that would draw over 124,000 daily riders and thereby divert over 83,000 car trips. • #philadelphia #urbanexploration
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