It was stocked with "the latest and largest line of dry goods, notions, cloaks, ladies' tailor-made suits, and men's furnishings".

[citation needed] The Globe Store eventually moved to Scranton where it would gain local fame.

[1] The founding families ran the store until 1979, a full decade after it became a division of John Wanamaker; the Globe continued to break sales records into the 1980s.

Carter Hawley Hale became embroiled in a fight to thwart 2 hostile takeover attempts by DeBartolo/Wexner and was forced to sell John Wanamaker and The Globe to Woodward & Lothrop.

The pedestrian bridge was closed off from the Globe and turned into the furniture department of Boscov's, one of the other anchors of the mall.