Obesity is a serious health concern in the United States. Obesity is described as a health condition in which one is severely overweight, and is divided into three categories: severe obesity, morbid obesity and super obesity.
The new Philadelphia store opened in 1911. When John Wanamaker died in 1922, his son Rodman was named sole inheritor of the retail business. Upon Rodman's death in 1928, the businesses were put into a trust, with family members as the beneficiaries. The Wanamaker trust sold the New York store in 1954.
The Stardust opened on June 2, 1958 with 1,065 rooms (worlds largest hotel), a 16,500 square foot casino (largest in Nevada) a huge neon sign as its facade (worlds largest electric sign) 216 feet long and 37 feet high, the sign contained over six miles of wiring, 7,100 feet of neon tubing and 11,000 lamps.