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Fading Ad Spotting on the Highline by Estelle Saltiel – Starring Noah Pardo & Adina Jick (& Burnham’s Beef Wine Chowder)

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Look Ma! A fading ad! Quick take our picture with it!

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Burnham’s Beef Wine Chowder

© Estelle Saltiel

Let’s send it to Uncle Frank!

Burnham’s in New York began as E. S. Burnham Co. Manufacturers Grocers’ Specialties at 120 Gansevoort St. around 1894, and moved to 53-61 Gansevoort in 1897. They were located here until 1929. Their products were groceries, produce, and druggist sundries. Apparently the sundries included medicinal tonics and extracts, as well as clam bouillon. – Walter Grutchfield

Sun Chun Mei 1 – Chinese Restaurant – Closed Over Six Years – West Village, NYC

June 2015 © Frank H. Jump

I remembering coming to eat at Sung Chun Mei 1 after ACT UP meetings in the late 80s. Enzo and I would go there on occasion when in the Village. We happened upon it again after the LGBT Pride NYC and it looked so perpetually closed. I could remember the last time we were there. Pork and string beans in a brown sauce. Pan fried dumplings. Cold noodle with sesame sauce. Eggplant with garlic sauce. I found this article that mentions it called No Longer Driving the Culture, is the Village Now “a Geography of Nowhere?” in the Washington Square Park Blog where Catherine says:

I knew Sung Chun Mei, the restaurant referenced in the article as closed and sitting shuttered for six years (picture above), well. It was a vibrant thriving business, a Chinese restaurant I considered my “go to” place to order dinner often. It is hard for me to even think of it as closed.

Jeremiah Moss references Sung Chun Mei more recently on September 28th in his Vanishing NY Blog. Living in Brooklyn, working in Brooklyn – I am so out of touch with Manhattan anymore. So much is changing in Flatbush, I find it hard to keep up with the changes and harder still to keep up with what isn’t changing beyond my immediate horizon.

#MrRobot – West 10th Street- Greenwich Village, NYC

© Frank H. Jump

Kopper’s Chocolate Revisited – Clarkson Street – West Village, NYC – Sion Fullana

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Other FAB postings of Kopper’s Chocolate.

 

Frank H. Jump – West Side Highway, NYC – 1977

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Meier & Oelhaf Co. Inc. – Marine Repair – Christopher Street – West Village, NYC

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Other postings:

Gansevoort Market Wheatpastes – Greenwich Village, NYC

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The City of New York Department of Sanitation – West Side Hwy

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Featured Fade – Photojournalist Matteo Brogi – Seventh Avenue Walldogs – Latest Marc Jacobs Ad

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January 27th 2009 © Matteo Brogi

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February 3rd 2009 © Matteo Brogi

© Matteo Brogi

February 3rd 2009 © Matteo Brogi

Matteo Brogi – Photojournalist

Comments taken from another posting about this one to lawman2:

They were painting the sign that you see in the later shots. I have this wall several times on the blog. Marc Jacobs seems to have the exclusive on this wall. Brooklyn has Monk parrots too! Other Marc Jacobs & Barney’s signs. This sign was just across the street from this sign (Jefferson Theatre) and taken from the roof of the building with the Barney’s signs.

Hub Station – 73 Morton Street – West Village, NYC

Hub Station - 73 Morton
© Frank H. Jump