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Featured Fade – Vintage Sen-Sen Ad – Milwaukee, WI – Pete Anderson

Pete Lit – “For Hoarseness.” Gorgeous, massive ad – six stories tall. 158 N. Broadway, Third Ward, Milwaukee. © Peter Anderson

“For Hoarseness.” Gorgeous, massive ad – six stories tall. 158 N. Broadway, Third Ward, Milwaukee. I actually visited, about ten years ago, the Chicago factory where Sen-Sen was last manufactured. I brought home a sample, but don’t remember trying it – the owners warned me that it had a strange taste. According to Wikipedia (which noted its “frequent use in covering up the odoriferous evidence of perceived vices such as drinking and cigarette smoking”) the product was discontinued in 2013. – Pete Lit, April 30, 2017

Vintage Ad from June 1901 – Judge Magazine – © Getty Images

New Paltz Savings Bank Revisited – Lonny Behar

© Lonny Behar

Reilly Electronics – Bronx, NY – Jaqui O

© Jaqui O

© Jaqui O

Boland’s Flour Mills – Dublin, Ireland – Andrea Newmark

© Andrea Newmark

© Andrea Newmark

cropped © Andrea Newmark

cropped © Andrea Newmark

Plans for the €150 million redevelopment of the historic Boland’s Mill site in Dublin’s docklands, including the construction of a 15-storey apartment block, have been approved by Dublin City Council. The Nama-backed development involves the construction of three new office and residential blocks and the restoration of the five original, but now derelict, mill buildings.

However the reference to the “mill” has been removed from the title of the development which will be called “Boland’s Quay”. The development is one of the first schemes undertaken though the fast-track planning system for the docklands. – Irish Times, Olivia Kelly – July 2015

Lorraine Motel – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Memphis, TN – Estelle Saltiel-Pardo

© Estelle Saltiel-Pardo

National Civil Rights Museum – Memphis TN

Where Dr. King checked into the Lorraine Motel – © Estelle Saltiel-Pardo

Can a man love God and hate his brother? – National Civil Rights Museum – Memphis, TN

© Estelle Saltiel-Pardo

Grand Trunk Railroad – Ticket Office – Montreal, Toronto, Buffalo, Detroit… Lewiston, ME – Marie Anne O’Donnell

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Papa Vicente’s Hardware – J. O’Shaughnessy – Soundview, Bronx NYC

© J. O’Shaughnessy

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Metz Bros. – Omaha’s Favorite Beer – Ft. Calhoun, NE – Vance Bass

© Vance Bass

Saturated by FHJ – © Vance Bass

If My Coaster Could Talk – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE

Saturated by FHJ – © Vance Bass

Thank you Ryan Roenfeld for the correction!

More Shots from Kansas – Vance Bass

Kline’s Milk – Kinsley, KS

© Vance Bass

Cropped © Vance Bass

Welding & Blacksmithing – Kinsley, KS

© Vance Bass

Silver Barn – Ford, KS

© Vance Bass

Chapman’s Meats Kansas – Keats, KS

© Vance Bass

Pepsi-Cola – Wrigley’s Doublemint Chewing Gum – Chiclets – Piedmont Tobacco – Durham, NC – Howard Karp

Roberti & Wittenberg Attorneys – Pepsi-Cola – At Founts or in Bottles © Howard Karp

Hue & Saturation altered, cropped reveals Piedmont (tobacco) © Howard Karp

Grayscale Wrigley’s Piedmont Pentimento © Howard Karp

Vintage Ads (Tobacco) 1910

composite © Howard Karp

Chiclets – Really Delightful – That Dainty Mint Covered Candy Coated Chewing Gum © Howard Karp

© Howard Karp