This week’s Foto Friday includes some holiday festivities from in and around Trenton and beyond.
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Macy’s at 1300 Market St. in the historic Wanamaker Building permanently closed in March 2025, but the famous holiday light show continues. Now the Wanamaker Light Show presented by PECO, this free Christmas gift uses more than 100,000 LED lights to deliver a holiday tale on a four-story-high velvet curtain. Snowflakes, ballerinas, trains, reindeer, and nutcrackers are just some of the figures projected during a 10-minute performance accompanied by the Wanamaker Grand Organ.
Our first visit occurred nearly 40 years back. The near-50 year show wrapped on Wednesday, Christmas Eve and will skip 2026 and 2027 holiday seasons due to construction.
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Malls may make a comeback but not Neshaminy Mall in Langhorne, Pa. More than half the stores have closed although Boscov’s and Barnes & Noble remain as business anchors. New owners intend to demolish about half the property for mixed-use development. Quaker Bridge Mall in Lawrence Twp. remains alive with Macy’s and JC Penney still major business attractions.
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Crean Hall, a building that housed the St. Francis Medical Center School of Nursing in Trenton, nears complete demolition. Ten structures are slated for demolition on the near-seven acre property in the city’s east ward. Owned by Trinity Health, plans are for the city to purchase the property ahead of redevelopment although no specifics exist. The estimated 18-24 month project being done by Haines & Kibblehouse (H&K Group, Inc.) of Skippack, Pa. could cost more than $20 million.
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Merry Christmas. Welcome to my home on the 100 block of Franklin St. in Chambersburg, Trenton. Went artificial years ago. Between 25-30 million Christmas trees are cut and sold in the U.S. each year.
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This once impressive house on Greenwood Ave. near Hudson St. in Trenton awaits demolition. Imagine if city officials had a plan to save these residences before they reached such conditions. Look at the roof.
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Macy’s at 1300 Market St. in the historic Wanamaker Building permanently closed in March 2025, but the famous holiday light show continues. Now the Wanamaker Light Show presented by PECO, this free Christmas gift uses more than 100,000 LED lights to deliver a holiday tale on a four-story-high velvet curtain. Snowflakes, ballerinas, trains, reindeer, and nutcrackers are just some of the figures projected during a 10-minute performance accompanied by the Wanamaker Grand Organ.
Our first visit occurred nearly 40 years back. The near-50 year show wrapped on Wednesday, Christmas Eve and will skip 2026 and 2027 holiday seasons due to construction.
(L.A. Parker/The Trentonian)
Our first visit occurred nearly 40 years back. The near-50 year show wrapped on Wednesday, Christmas Eve and will skip 2026 and 2027 holiday seasons due to construction.
(L.A. Parker/The Trentonian)