following the purchase by macy's in 2006, "usa today" ran an article about the regional chains merging into macy's which featured memories from pittsburgh residents about the store and the clock: "as girls in their best dresses and mary jane shoes, they rode streetcars downtown to the 11-story kaufmann's department store here. jean wenner, 81, and her friends grew up on kaufmann's, meeting under the store's ornate clock, lunching at the tic toc restaurant and bringing their own children to the secret santa."