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R. H. Macy and Company Store
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
(1907)
Macy's Herald Square
Macy's Herald Square
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Location
151 West 34th Street
Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates
40°45′1″N 73°59′18″W / 40.75028°N 73.98833°W / 40.75028; -73.98833Coordinates: 40°45′1″N 73°59′18″W / 40.75028°N 73.98833°W / 40.75028; -73.98833
Built
1901
Architect
De Lemos & Cordes
NRHP reference #
78001873
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
June 2, 1978[1]
Designated NHL
June 2, 1978[2]
Macy's Herald Square (originally named the R. H. Macy and Company Store) is the flagship of the Macy's department store chain; it is located on Herald Square in Manhattan, New York City. The building's 2.5 million square feet (232,257.6 m2),[3] which includes 1.25 million square feet (116,128.8 m2) of retail space, makes it the largest department store in the United States and the second largest in the world.[citation needed] As of 2018, the store has stood at the site for 116 years.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark in 1978.[2][1][4]
Contents
1 History
2 Christmas and Holiday window displays
3 Events
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History[edit]
Macy's entrance
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, established in 1851 to serve the mill industry employees of the area. They all failed, but he learned from his mistakes. He 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, equivalent to $312.83 today. From the very beginning, Macy's logo has included a star in one form or another, echoing a red star-shaped tattoo that Macy got as a teenager when he worked on a Nantucket whaling ship.[5][6]
As the business grew, Macy's expanded into neighboring buildings, opening more department stores, and used publicity devices such as a store Santa Claus, themed exhibits, and illuminated window displays to draw in customers.[7] 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 1875, Macy took on two partners, Robert M. Valentine (1850–1879), a nephew; and Abiel T. La Forge (1842–1878) of Wisconsin, who was the husband of a cousin.[8][9] Macy died just two years later in 1877 from Bright's disease,[10] The following year La Forge died and Valentine died in 1879.[8][9] Ownership of the company was passed down through the Macy family until 1895, when the company, now called "R. H. Macy & Co.", was acquired by Isidor Straus and his brother Nathan Straus, who had previously held a license to sell china and other goods in the Macy's store.
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.[11] 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, with the exception of a small pre-existing building on the corner of 35th Street and Seventh Avenue and another on the corner of 34th Street and Broadway. Robert H. Smith purchased this latter 5-story building in 1900 for $375,000 – an incredible sum at the time – with the idea of getting in the way of Macy's becoming the largest store in the world: it is largely supposed that Smith, who was a neighbor of the Macy's store on 14th Street, was acting on behalf of Siegel-Cooper, which had built what they thought was the world's largest store on Sixth Avenue in 1896. Macy's ignored the tactic, and simply built around the building, which now carries Macy's "shopping bag" sign by lease arrangement.[12] That building earned the name Million Dollar Corner when it was finally sold for a then record $1,000,000 on December 6, 1911.[13]
The original Broadway store, designed by architects De Lemos & Cordes and built in 1901–02 by the Fuller Company. It has a Palladian facade, but has been updated in many details. Other additions to the west were completed in 1924 and 1928, and the Seventh Avenue building in 1931, all designed by architect Robert D. Kohn, the newer buildings becoming increasingly Art Deco in style.[12][14] The store boasts several wooden escalators still in operation.
The building in 2010
In 2012, Macy’s began the first full renovation of the iconic Herald Square flagship store at a reported cost of $400 million.[15][16] Studio V Architecture, a New York-based firm, was the overall master plan architect of the project, with Kevin Kennon Architects providing the exterior and entry way designs. The firms' design raised controversy over the nature of contemporary design and authentic restoration.[17]
The renovations completed in November 2015 but continues to modify the store to suit changing customer tastes and maximize return on the real estate.[18] Also in 2016, the company explored adding one or two towers to the building to house hotel or office space, in 2017 it considered turning the structure's roof into a park.[19][20]
In August 2014, Macy's agreed to a $650,000 penalty proposed by the New York Attorney General to settle a number of claims of racial profiling and false detention involving nearly two dozen African-American, Latino and other customers at the Herald Square store, who had lodged complaints in February 2013. As part of the deal, the retail group agreed to introduce policies to ensure all customers were treated equally regardless of race or ethnicity.[21]
Through a partnership with tech retailer b8ta, this Macy's location has a "The Market @ Macy's" section, which features pop-up spaces for new brands.[22]
Christmas and Holiday window displays[edit]
Every year, Macy's is noted for its elaborate animated holiday and Christmas window displays in many locations across the U.S., but most notably at the Herald Square location. Each year presents a different theme shown in six windows on the Broadway side of the building. Each window includes animated displays with complex scenery, attracting thousands of people to view them. Since 2012, the windows have been designed, fabricated and animated by Standard Transmission Productions,[23][24][25] located in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
In 2007, Macy's launched a curated public art exhibition at the Herald Square flagship using its windows as a means to display pieces from several fashion designers including Misaki Kawai, Anna Sui and John F. Simon Jr.. The exhibit was titled Art Under Glass and was viewable to the public during the summer of 2007 through that year's fashion week.[26]
Events[edit]
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1924–present)
Broadway Side (1924–2008)
34th Street Side (2009–present)
Macy's Santa Land
Macy's Flower Show
Macy's Believe campaign
See also[edit]
Rowland Hussey Macy, for the founder of the store
Macy's, for a history of the chain
Macy's, Inc., for a history of the company formerly known as Federated Department Stores, owners of Macy's
An early Macy's building, dating from 1894, at 56 West 14th Street, designated a NYC landmark in 2012
References[edit]
Notes
^ Jump up to: a b National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
^ Jump up to: a b "R.H. Macy and Company Store". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2007-09-11. Archived from the original on 2014-07-02.
Jump up ^ Oh, Inae (November 1, 2011). "Macy's $400 Million Grand Makeover To Flagship Store". The Huffington Post.
Jump up ^ Adams, George R. (February 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: R. H. Macy and Company Store" (pdf). National Park Service. and Accompanying 4 photos, exterior, undated (1.03 MB)
Jump up ^ L.H. Robbins, "The City Department Store: Evolution of 75 Years" (pay wall), The New York Times, 12 February 1933, 130.
Jump up ^ Stephen Evans, "The death of the department store", BBC News, 1 March 2005
Jump up ^ Burrows, Edwin G. & Wallace, Mike (1999), Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-195-11634-8 , pp.945-946
^ Jump up to: a b "Abiel T. La Forge". The New York Times. February 13, 1878. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
^ Jump up to: a b "Robert M. Valentine's Will". The New York Times. February 26, 1879. Retrieved 2008-06-14. The will of Robert M. Valentine, late partner in the firm of R. H. Macy Co., was offered for probate yesterday in the Surrogate's office.
Jump up ^ "Rowland H. Macy, Merchant". The New York Times. March 31, 1877. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
Jump up ^ Abelson, Elaine S. "R. H. Macy" in Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (2010), The Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd ed.), New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-11465-2 , p.1102
^ Jump up to: a b White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000), AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.), New York: Three Rivers Press, ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5 , pp.225-226
Jump up ^ "THE REAL ESTATE FIELD; $1,000,000 Paid for Small Broadway and 34th Street Corner". The New York Times. December 7, 1911. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
Jump up ^ Wurman, Richard Saul (2008). Access New York City. HarperCollins. p. 133. ISBN 978-0061350375. (Subscription required (help)).
Jump up ^ Singer, Natasha (November 1, 2014). "For Macy's, a Makeover on 34th Street". The New York Times.
Jump up ^ "Top 2012 Retail Projects" (PDF). Architectural Record: 32. September 2012.
Jump up ^ "Macy's flagship's $400M makeover creating stir". CBS News. Associated Press. September 29, 2008.
Jump up ^ Palmieri, Jean E. (November 5, 2015). "Macy's Completes Renovation of Men's Department at Herald Square". Women's Wear Daily.
Jump up ^ Fickenscher, Lisa; Weiss, Lois (January 7, 2016). "Macy's considers adding a tower to iconic Herald Square store". New York Post.
Jump up ^ Fickenscher, Lisa (June 6, 2017). "Macy's considering turning Herald Square roof into public park". New York Post. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
Jump up ^ Lovett, Kenneth (August 20, 2014). "Macy's agrees to pay $650G to settle state probe into racial profiling at its Herald Square store". New York Daily News. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
Jump up ^ Wolf, Alan (June 13, 2018). "Macy's Taps b8ta For In-Store Pop-Up Shops". Twice. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
Jump up ^ "Photos: Go Behind The Scenes Of The Macy's Herald Square Christmas Windows". Gothamist. Archived from the original on 2017-11-06. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
Jump up ^ "Miracle on 34th Street Comes to Life in Red Hook". DNAinfo New York. Archived from the original on 2018-01-07. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
Jump up ^ Cerullo, Megan (December 1, 2017). "Window Dressing". Brown Alumni Magazine.
Jump up ^ Nathan, Lillien (July 11, 2007). "Anna Sui Opens Macy's Art Exhibit, Loves Psychedelia". New York. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
Further reading
Hungerford, Edward "Early History of Macy's" in The Romance of a Great Store (1922)
External links[edit]
Official website
Media related to Macy's Herald Square at Wikimedia Commons

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"Californication"
Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers
from the album Californication
B-side
"I Could Have Lied" (Live)
"End of Show Brisbane" (Live)
Released
May 20, 2000
Format
CD
cassette
vinyl
Recorded
1999
Genre
Alternative rock
Length
5:21 (Album version)
5:29 (Greatest Hits version)
3:26 (Radio edit)
Label
Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)
Kiedis
Smith
Flea
Frusciante
Producer(s)
Rick Rubin
Red Hot Chili Peppers singles chronology
"Otherside"
(2000) "Californication"
(2000) "Road Trippin'"
(2000)
Music video
"Californication" on YouTube
"Californication" is the Red Hot Chili Peppers' fourth single and sixth track from their 1999 seventh studio album, Californication. Released as a single in May 2000, the song reached #69 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, #16 on the UK Singles Chart, and hit number 1 on both the US Mainstream Rock Tracks for two weeks, and US Modern Rock Tracks for one week.
"Californication" has remained one of the band's most popular and most performed live songs, appearing in almost every setlist since its live debut and making it the band's third most performed song, with over 500 performances.[1]
Contents
1 Song information
2 Composition
3 Music video
4 Live performances
5 In popular culture
6 Formats and track listings
7 Personnel
8 Charts and certifications
8.1 Weekly charts
8.2 Certifications
9 References
Song information[edit]
The song is mainly about the dark side of Hollywood and the export of culture through the movie industry. The song begins "Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation." Kiedis says in his book Scar Tissue that he got the inspiration for the line from hearing a woman on a New Zealand street ranting about "psychic spies in China".
The track also makes references to topics such as pornography ("hardcore soft porn") and plastic surgery ("pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging") and even some pop culture references including Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, the Foo Fighters (whose nickname is "spheres") and David Bowie ("Cobain, can you hear the spheres singing songs off Station to Station?"), The Beach Boys ("They're just another Good Vibration"), Star Wars ("and Alderaan's not far away") and Star Trek ("Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement"). The phrase "First born Unicorn" refers to Dorothy Stratten, whose life was covered in the book The Killing of the Unicorn.
Guitarist John Frusciante exclusively recorded this song and "Otherside" with a vintage Gretsch White Falcon hollow body electric guitar; he also played these songs live with the White Falcon until 2007 when he retired it for one of his vintage Fender Stratocasters.
It is notable for its sparse combination of guitar and bass notes in the main riff; Frusciante drew inspiration for the song "Carnage Visors" by The Cure.[2] In Kiedis's book, Scar Tissue, the author reveals that the band had enormous difficulty in putting the song together. Kiedis had written the lyrics, which he felt were some of the best he had ever written, but the band could not decide how the song should sound musically.
As they struggled with the song it seemed like they would not be able to finish it in time to include it on the album, until one day Frusciante walked into the studio and exclaimed that he had "figured it out". He played the song as he visualised it, and it went from being a song that could have been an afterthought to becoming one of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' greatest hits, similar to the way "Under the Bridge" was conceived. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Greatest Hits album uses a slightly different version of the song. Most notably, the first chorus is extended. The reason for this alternate version's appearance on the album is unknown.
Composition[edit]
The song begins in the key of A minor with Frusciante picking the chords of Am and F for twelve measures, before picking the chords of C-G-F-Dm then going back and picks Am and F for 8 more measures before picking C-G-F-Dm again. For the pre-chorus Frusciante then strums a combination of Am and Fmaj7 chords for twelve measures, until the chorus when he strums the chords C-Gmaj7-Dm9-Am, then C-G-Dm9.
After the second chorus, a 16 measure guitar solo is played by Frusciante, along with a modulation to A major. After the solo, the key returns to the original A minor, and a third verse and final chorus is played.
Music video[edit]
The video, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, takes the form of a fictional 3D video game from the third person point of view of each of the band members, all on some sort of adventure; this varies with each band member. John Frusciante, sporting a similar hairstyle to that he favored during the Blood Sugar Sex Magik era, runs through Hollywood, dodging celebrities and their bodyguards. Chad Smith snowboards in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, then he falls off a cliff and lands on a train.
Anthony Kiedis swims in the San Francisco Bay, surrounded by sharks and women; he then surfs on a shark's back and suddenly jumps into the front seat of a convertible car and drives off. Flea runs through Sequoia National Park, saving a bear from a hunter, riding a mining cart, and escaping many lumberjacks as they are cutting down all the trees.
Frusciante enters a film studio, where he interferes with the productions of a space movie, a pornographic film, and a Leonardo da Vinci biopic. Next Smith rails one of the Golden Gate Bridge's main suspension wires on his snowboard, while Kiedis, joyriding across the bridge, passes through the Andy's Donuts doughnut (a thinly veiled reference to the Randy's Donuts shop); he then drives off a cliff, landing on a giant dragonfly with Flea riding it as the guitar solo begins.
In the meantime, Smith skysurfs, and Frusciante rides the Da Vinci flying machine prop from the studio. Kiedis then leaps off the dragonfly and lands brutally (losing most of his health in the process) in a field of California poppies. This scene cuts off into the band passing through an earthquake caused by a shift of the San Andreas Fault, eventually concluding with all four of them meeting at the center of the Earth, where they all touch a 3D cube which transforms their computer generated avatars into all four of their own real selves, as the message "Game Over" appears at the bottom of the screen, segueing into a "Next Game?" prompt, upon which the video ends.
Intercut with all this is live action performance footage of the band, which remains in a picture-in-picture insert until a band member catches an item shaped after the band's asterisk logo. This causes the live action footage to fill the screen for a few seconds, until the next part of the song begins, resuming the "game."[3] The video itself contains many homages to video games of its time, such as Crazy Taxi in Kiedis' sequences and Kiedis' swimming scenes, and SSX in Chad's snowboarding scenes.
The music video is similar to some games that were mostly sandbox/open world based gameplay. The music video for "Californication" is the group's most watched on YouTube, with over 520 million views.[4]
Live performances[edit]
"Californication" is the band's third most performed song and has been performed at almost every show since 1999.[1]
In popular culture[edit]
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The song was featured in the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005). In 2009, Brazilian singer Barbara Mendes made a bossa nova cover of this song in the album Rock Bossa.[5]
The song is available as downloadable content for the video game Rock Band 3. In August 2016, the first episode of Hard Knocks used the song during a scene of the Los Angeles Rams first practice in Irvine, California since 1994. Jared Goff asked about where does the sun lie down at the end of the day referring to a lyric from the song ("The sun may rise in the East/At least it settled in a finer location").
Formats and track listings[edit]
CD single 1 9362 44907 2
"Californication" – 5:21
"I Could Have Lied" (Live) – 4:26
"End of Show Brisbane" (Live) – 8:11
CD single 2 9362 44908 2
"Californication" – 5:21
"I Could Have Lied" (Live) – 4:26
"End of Show State College" (Live) – 9:27
EP 9362 44872 2
"Californication" – 5:21
"End of Show Brisbane" (Live) – 8:11
"I Could Have Lied" (Live) – 4:26
"End of Show State College" (Live) – 9:27
Personnel[edit]
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anthony Kiedis – lead vocals
John Frusciante – electric guitar, backing vocals, organ
Flea – bass
Chad Smith – drums
Charts and certifications[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (2000)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[6]
44
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[7]
6
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[8]
9
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[9]
59
Canada Rock/Alternative (RPM)[10]
1
Germany (Official German Charts)[11]
63
Ireland (IRMA)[12]
24
Italy (FIMI)[13]
19
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[14]
41
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[15]
8
Poland (Polish Airplay Top 100)[16]
1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[17]
37
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[18]
16
US Billboard Hot 100[19]
69
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[20]
37
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[21]
28
US Latin Pop Songs (Billboard)[22]
33
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[23]
1
US Alternative Songs (Billboard)[24]
1
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Italy (FIMI)[25]
Platinum 50,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[26]
Platinum 600,000^
United States (RIAA)[27]
Gold 500,000^
^shipments figures based on certification alone
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Red Hot Chili Peppers Tour Statistics". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
Jump up ^ Songfacts (2016). "Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers". Retrieved 18 June 2016.
Jump up ^ Video on YouTube.
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Jump up ^ "Download Rock Bossa by Various Artists". eMusic. 2009-11-20. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
Jump up ^ "Australian-charts.com – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Ultratop.be – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication" (in Dutch). Ultratip. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Ultratop.be – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication" (in French). Ultratip. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 7101." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Top RPM Rock/Alternative Tracks: Issue 9937." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Chart Track: Week 37, 2000". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
Jump up ^ "Italiancharts.com – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication". Top Digital Download. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Charts.nz – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Listy bestsellerów, wyróżnienia :: Związek Producentów Audio-Video". Polish Airplay Top 100. Retrieved January 19, 2014.
Jump up ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication". Singles Top 100. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Red Hot Chili Peppers: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Red Hot Chili Peppers Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Red Hot Chili Peppers Chart History (Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Red Hot Chili Peppers Chart History (Adult Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
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Jump up ^ "Red Hot Chili Peppers Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Red Hot Chili Peppers Chart History (Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Italian single certifications – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
Jump up ^ "British single certifications – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved April 5, 2018. Select singles in the Format field. Select Platinum in the Certification field. Type Californication in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
Jump up ^ "American single certifications – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved January 9, 2015. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH.
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