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January, 2014:

Reflections on The Boston Store, Chicago – Featured Fade, Peter Anderson

© Peter Anderson

The dry goods emporium began life on this site in 1873 when Charles Netcher opened the Boston in a small 5-story building. The story goes that he was so dedicated to seeing the enterprise become a success that he spent his nights sleeping on showcase counter tops in order to spend as much time in the store as possible. His dedication paid off, and in 1891 after marrying ladies undergarment buyer Mollie Alpiner, the pair began acquiring property surrounding the store. Not wanting to show his hand and overpay, Netcher used third parties and pseudonyms to buy, or lease for 99 year terms, the half block fronting State Street and running west along Madison Street to Dearborn.Designs Linger 

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Not to be confused with The Boston Store of Erie, Pennsylvania.

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Peter Anderson works in the financial sector but writes fiction, “to ease the crushing monotony of corporate life.” Anderson lives and writes in Joliet, Illinois and his novel Wheatyard was published by Kuboa Press in 2013.

Bisleri Ferro-China – Remy Martin Cognac – Sherif Street, Downtown Cairo, Egypt – Iman R. Abdulfattah, Uptown Correspondent

Sherif Street, Downtown Cairo © Iman R. Abdulfattah

A friend directed me to this cognac ad… The obscured word on the bottom left should read “Remi”, or something like that. – I.R. Abdulfattah

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Ferro-china is a liqueur usually consumed as a liquore nero and digestive tonic, but is often used as an aperitif . It was invented and patented in the last decade of the nineteenth century by entrepreneur and Garibaldi freedom fighter Signor Felice Bisleri (1881) . – Wikipedia – Italy

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The Bisleri’s, originally a family of industrialists, have produced this very famous Italian tonic since 1881. It is essentially an aperitif in a herb flavoured, fortified wine base. Its producers recommend its as a blood tonic. Each 30 ml shot contains 5 mg of Iron [from Ammonium Iron (lll) Citrate] and when taken at any time of day, but preferably before a meal, will help maintain normal blood. Ferro China also makes a pleasant drink when mixed with mineral water.

One member of the Bisleri family, Franco Bordoni-Bisleri (born 1913), was a famous Italian flying ace. The badge on the Ferro-China bottles was a lion so this was the image painted on most of his aircraft alongside the word “Robur” meaning “strength” in Latin. No doubt his fame helped to popularise the brand. 21% Alc./Vol. – Vintage Direct

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“…the fierce urgency of now.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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CLICK HERE FOR TRANSCRIPT OF REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.’s I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH

Bonded Warehouse – West Side Highway – Serpent Graffiti – Featured Fade, Barbara Snow

© Barbara Snow

Will The Real Santini Bros Moving & Storage Company Please Stand Up! – S. Santini – Mayflower – Moving & Storage – Bronx, NY – Fabio Aiosa

4770 White Plains Road – Bronx © Fabio Aiosa

Hue & Saturation by FHJ – © Fabio Aiosa

NOT CONNECTED WITH ANY OTHER SANTINI – Courtesy of Our Old Neighborhood Postcards – CLICK FOR LINK

Much like the “Ray’s Pizza Original” claims, and other pizza rivalries in Brooklyn & Manhattan – The Santini Brothers Saga is similar – they are the Original Ray’s Pizza of moving and storage. In the October 10th, 1942 edition of The New Yorker magazine, in  THE TALK OF THE TOWN section, an article  entitled Chaos – By Gardner Botsford & Russell Maloney  – the Santini Bros conundrum was humourously addressed.

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According to Shorpy,

Fleet truck [above] of Santini Brothers Storage and Warehouse (not to be confused with any other Santinis). The “square” at W 170th St & Jerome Ave in the Bronx was dedicated to the brothers in 1981. The seven brothers were Pasquale, Pietro, Paride, Rinaldo, August Godfrey and Martin who started the business in 1905. Rinaldo was the last to die in 1980.

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Broadloom Carpets Revisited – Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn

© Vincenzo Aiosa

Tang – Aswan, Egypt – Uptown Correspondent, Iman R. Abdulfattah

© Iman R. Abdulfattah

© Iman R. Abdulfattah

 

Does Anybody Still Eat Chow Mein? Crown Heights, Brooklyn

© Frank H. Jump

Society Smokes Cigars – Revisited – Hell’s Kitchen, NYC

© Frank H. Jump

Luster, Fought & Co – Pharmaceutical Merchandisers – Athens, OH – Midwest Correspondent, Nick Hirshon

Ohio University campus, on Factory Street just off West Union Street. © Nick Hirshon

The Athena – Ohio University Yearbook 1931 – Athens OH – Ohio University Libraries – CLICK FOR PDF

Advertisement in The Athena (1931) page 323 – Ohio University Libraries

NY Central Lines Industrial Directory & Shippers Guide © Google Books – CLICK FOR LINK

National Institute of Health Archives – CLICK FOR PDF

Here is an example of how the establishment of the FDA impacted the “snake oils” industry.

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