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- Previously posted on FAB – April 18, 2013
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Lowlands Correspondent – Gaia Son with Assistant Jamie Van Loon – Van Houten’s Cacao – De Beste – Leiden, NL
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- Coenraad Johannes van Houten & Casparus van Houten Sr. – Wikipedia
Featured Fade: Coca-Cola Sign Uncovered in Chicago in Summer of 2012 – Mike Merritt
© Mike Merritt of www.redship.com – CLICK TO CHECK OUT MIKE’S NEW START-UP
Frank,
Stumbled across your site while on the net and love it!
I’ve attached a photo of a Coca Cola ad that was uncovered this summer when a building was demolished. This was in a row of buildings on the 5400 block of North Clark St. in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood.
Enjoy!
Mike
Thanks Mike and I hope you enjoy the book! Check out Mike’s new start-up business, REDSHIP – a college care package company with a great retro logo and web design.
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Featured Fade – L & H Stern – Smoking Pipes & Holders – DUMBO – Fred King
October 2012 © Fred King
L & H Stern were Ludwig and Hugo Stern. Hugo Stern (1872-?) was in business in Brooklyn in the Cigars and Tobacco business as early as 1899. Ludwig Stern (1877-1942) emigrated from Germany as a young man, worked for a time for the Metropolitan Tobacco Co., then founded L & H Stern in 1911. They were originally located in Manhattan on East 10th St. (Ludwig Stern, president; Hugo Stern, vice-president & secretary; and Benjamin Zeichner, treasurer) and moved to Brooklyn in the area now called DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) around 1920. They manufactured “smoker’s articles,” with a specialty in briar pipes. They remained in business at this location until the mid-1960′s. – Walter Grutchfield
Featured Fade – Sterling National Bank – Fading Ad Underneath – Nick Hirshon
Queens Blvd & 71st © Nick Hirshon
I’m learning from you to snap these signs during their potentially brief time of exposure. Crews recently tore down a row of small businesses along Queens Boulevard between 71st Road and 71st Drive. They exposed the blue ad on the bottom of the photograph. Looks like there’s something beneath it, too, but I couldn’t see it from the street. - Nick Hirshon
