The Wanamaker Light Show and Dickens Village will continue to be part of families' holiday traditions in Philadelphia this year, despite the closure of Macy's flagship location in Center City earlier this year.

Owen Timoney's been part of the Wanamaker Light Show installation for years.

"Trying to figure out if there is any piece on this, out of the thousand pieces, that I haven't literally touched," Timoney said.

There were concerns about the future of the free light show and Dickens Village after Macy's pulled out of the Wanamaker Building in March, but the Philadelphia Visitors Center, Peco, Power Pay, Wanamaker Building owner TF Cornerstone and other organizations fought to save the Delaware Valley holiday tradition.

"We began this very scrappy effort to plan and fundra

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