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March, 2014:

Featured Fade: Gruhn Guitars – Fine Selection of Used & New Instruments – Nashville, TN – Alison Fraser

We Pay Top Dollar For Used Guitars, Banjoes & Mandolins – FX by FHJ with Snapseed © Alison Fraser

(Thank you David Drake)

WW Grainger Billboard – Canal Street NYC – 1998

Fading Ads of NYC (History Press, 2011) – Special Effects by Snapseed – © Frank H. Jump

Hotel Bonta-Narragansett – UWS – NYC

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

The Hotel Narragansett opened ca. 1902 at this location on Broadway between 93rd and 94th Streets. 1913-14 advertisements in the New York Herald referred to the Hotel as the Bonta-Narragansett (Arthur Knox Bonta, 1861?-1919, proprietor): “Handsomely Furnished Suites of One or More Rooms, with Bath.”  – Walter Grutchfield

Arthur Knox Bonta – 8 AUG 1860 – 25 DEC 1919 – Three Systems

Fall River Line Journal, Volumes 34-35 – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – Google Books

American Almond Products Co. –

Nut Processing Specialists since 1924 © Frank H. Jump

Turn Left – [We] Specialize In… – Astoria Blvd – East Elmhurst, Queens

© Frank H. Jump

Krug’s Bread – Astoria Blvd – Corona, Queens

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Courtesy of Fulton History

Flour Ad – West Philadelphia, PA

Best Bread © Vincenzo Aiosa

Laughing Cow – Appliance Store Palimpsest – Sayyida Zaynab Square, Cairo – Uptown Correspondent, Iman R. Abdulfattah

© Iman R. Abdulfattah

A nice palimpsest for you: La vache qui rit/Laughing Cow trademark is at the top; and an ad for a company that specializes in household appliances, where you can pay in cash or by installments, is at the bottom. – Iman R. Abdulfattah

Pepsi – Abbasiyya, Cairo – Uptown Correspondent, Iman R. Abdulfattah

© Iman R. Abdulfattah

© Iman R. Abdulfattah

BIC Ballpoint Pens & Razors – Cairo, Egypt – Uptown Correspondent, Iman R. Abdulfattah

Corniche al-Nil Street, Maspero, Cairo © Iman R. Abdulfattah

Elsewhere on FAB – Featured Fade – BIC Ballpoint Pens & Razors – Cairo, Egypt – Alexandria D’Onofrio – July 28, 2012