WFIL is a radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, with a Christian radio format consisting of teaching and talk programs. Owned by Salem Media Group, studios and transmitter facilities are shared with co-owned WNTP in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.
WFIL
Studio photograph of WFI's March 18, 1922 formal debut broadcast.
Strawbridge's, formerly Strawbridge & Clothier, was a department store in the northeastern United States, with stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The Center City Philadelphia flagship store was, in its day, a gracious urban emporium. The retailer started adding branch stores starting in the 1930s and, by their zenith in the 1980s, enjoyed annual sales of over a billion dollars By the 1990s, Strawbridge's became part of the May Department Stores conglomerate until May's acquisition by Federated Department Stores on August 30, 2005.
Building the 1931 limestone flagship building nearly bankrupted the company during the Depression
From 1870 to 1930, the 5-story S&C stood at 8th and Market Streets (1910s postcard)
Jenkintown store, on the National Register of Historic Places
Refurbished flagship building (2014)