1930's Basketball Ellis Gimbel Award Pendant Pin Medal Charm Sterling Silver

Ellis A. Gimbel son of Adam Gimbel, founder of what became the Gimbel Bros. department store chain. 

Ellis Gimbel initiated the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1920 – the year women won the right to vote – by leading a caravan of 50 store employees in 15 cars through Center City. The parade grew over the next 65 years to include Santa Claus climbing up a firetruck ladder to a window of the Gimbels store on Market Street, signaling the start of the Christmas buying season.

Ellis Gimbel also created "the Gimbel Fund," which recognized distinguished women contributors to society with the Gimbel Award. Recipients included Eleanor Roosevelt, Pearl S. Buck, Amelia Earhart, and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Ellis Gimbel had a soft spot for youngsters, annually providing circus tickets for 10,000 needy, handicapped, blind, or orphaned children for many years.

The Ellis A. Gimbel Charitable Trust underwrote organizations and institutions that provided entertainment for underprivileged children.

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