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April, 2010:

Friezes & Lions & Gas – Oh My! – West 38th & 39th Streets – Midtown, NYC

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Paraco Gas & Oil © Frank H. Jump

Furniture ? – West 231st Street Station – Broadway, Bronx

© Frank H. Jump

Dempsey's Liquor Store – Mail Pouch Tobacco – Waterloo, NY – Featured Fade

© Isaac Hattem

Between Seneca & Cayuga Lakes in the Finger Lake region of New York State is the town of Waterloo, named after the Belgian town where Napoleon didn’t have such a good day in 1815. My buddy Isaac, who I met in Yellowstone last summer, was traveling from Ithaca to Buffalo and shot this for me, almost incredulously.

Elsewhere on the Internet:

Annoying Place (in Dutch) – Verveelen Place, Bronx

© Frank H. Jump

The verb to annoy is verveelen in Dutch (pronounced “fer-fail`-en”). When passing the Robert’s Books & Stationery / Kornblau-Goldblum Supply Co signs on the Major Deegan Expressway, I never thought I’d be rediscovering another odd Dutch street name. Brooklyn has its Varkens Hoek (Hog’s Corner) and Paerdegats (Horse’s Hole) street names and the Bronx has its Annoying Place.  But in all reality, this street probably got its name from a Dutchman with the surname, ver Veelen. Read the genealogical study of this family name by John Blythe Dobson for the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record – April, 2002.

Kornblau-Goldblum Supply Co Inc — Robert's Books & Stationery — Verveelen Place, Bronx

Apartment & House Supplies - Paint © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Kellobe Machine Co. – Cypress Hills, Brooklyn

Jamaica Avenue & New Jersey Avenue near the entrance to the Jackie Robinson © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

I’ve shot this sign over the past twelve years and never took a long exposure at night.

Elsewhere on the Internet:

Kentucky Club Pipe Tobacco – Brodheadsville, PA

© Frank H. Jump

Previously posted on Fading Ad Campaign website.

Black Success Barber Shop – Pennsylvania Avenue – East NY, Brooklyn

© Frank H. Jump

Gowanus Pylons – Third Street Bridge – Brooklyn

Looking North © Frank H. Jump

Looking North © Frank H. Jump

Looking South © Frank H. Jump

Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most – Flatbush Forsythia & Magnolia – Ella Fitzgerald & Charlie Chaplin

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Screaming yellow bloom
Harbinger of warmer days
And steamy short nights