{"id":466821,"date":"2025-12-23T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466821\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:08:13","slug":"the-wanamaker-light-show-and-dickens-village-return-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466821\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffThe Wanamaker Light Show and Dickens Village return for the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CENTER CITY (WPVI) &#8212; The Wanamaker Light Show and Dickens Village have been a tradition since 1956 and are open this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The free show, formerly held at Macy&#8217;s, was in jeopardy after the department store closed. Thanks to the leadership of Kathryn Ott Lovell and the generous support from donors, it&#8217;s back this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Along with the classic display, guests can stroll through Dickens Village to take a picture with Santa and enjoy a bite to eat and a drink from the pop-up, Holly and Humbug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">New this year is a partnership with Christmas Village, where you can shop at over 40 vendors in the grand court while watching the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">You can hear the Organ live up until December 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><strong class=\"vtkaO \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phlvisitorcenter.com\/wanamaker-christmas-light-show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wanamaker Light Show <\/a>| <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/phlvisitorcenter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook <\/a>| <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/phlvisitorcenter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong><br class=\" \"\/>The Wanamaker Building, 100 East Penn Square, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CENTER CITY (WPVI) &#8212; The Wanamaker Light Show and Dickens Village have been a tradition since 1956 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":466822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[212341,5229,16374,7709,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,206520,212340],"class_list":["post-466821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-212341","tag-america","tag-fyi-philly","tag-holidays","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wanamaker-light-show","tag-wanamaker-organ"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}