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October 19th, 2007:

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Pintchik Paints – Rediscovering Jamaica, Jamaica Queens





© Frank H. Jump

Pintchik Paints and Mary’s Idle Hour Pizza. Check out Kevin Walsh’s Forgotten-NY Queens Fading Ads.

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Get Shorpy – The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog


My buddy Julian Seery Gude, great great grandson of advertising pioneer OJ Gude, turned me on to this blog. Great vintage photos. Above are Vincenzo, 15 years old, and brother Angelo, 11 years old, baking bread for their father at 174 Salem Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. February 1, 1917

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Fletcher's Castoria – Rediscovering Jamaica… Jamaica, Queens

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump

Archer Avenue off Sutphin Blvd. Fletcher’s Castoria is one of the most prolific and lasting fading ads in the NYC area. Originally formulated as a childrens’ laxative by the Centaur Company, the slogans often read – “Fletcher’s Castoria – Made Especially for Children.”