PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Hundreds of people showed up to Rittenhouse Square on Sunday, during "Pierre Standard Time" to honor the memory of the radio icon Pierre Robert, including those who worked most closely with him at WMMR.

"The outpouring of everything since he passed has been really, really overwhelming. We knew he was larger than life but I don't think we really had - everybody lived with it as a constant in their lives and when it goes away, it all comes to the surface for everybody," Chuck Damico, the program director for Robert's show, said.

It's fitting that the celebration of life for Robert was held in Rittenhouse Square. Not only where the original WMMR studios was on 19th and Walnut, but also Robert's favorite spot in the city.

One of his final posts on social media was a

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