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November, 2011:

Iconoclastic Williamsburg Mural – One Must Grasp One’s Icons to Clasm One’s Icons

Nov 21st, 2011
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Ancient ad ‘reins’ over Times Square By SUSANNAH CAHALAN – NY POST

Nov 20th, 2011
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The oldest still-standing advertisement in New York City — there for more than a century — is hidden in, of all places, Times Square.

“J.A. Keal’s Carriage Manufactory Repairing” — at 47th and Broadway — was painted on the side of a brick building in 1874, back when horses galloped through Gotham.

The billboard, now hidden at the southwest corner of Broadway that has Roxy Delicatessen on its ground floor, is featured in Brooklyn elementary-school teacher Frank Jump’s new book, “Fading Ads of New York City” (The History Press), out this week.

Jump photographed the “ghost sign,” as many of the old ads are called, when it was briefly exposed in 1998.

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WHOA! Survivors of a simpler time, these ads in Times Square (pictured) and 19th-century customers who depended on horses for transportation.

 

An adjacent building at 1567 Broadway was torn down before a new building was erected and connected to the towering W Hotel that currently stands behind it.

The city’s oldest still-visible ad is in Chelsea, the book says. Painted in white on a red-brick building at 109 W. 17th St. around 1900, the ad sells “Carriages, Coupes and Hansoms.”

Jump, who teaches at PS 119 Amersfort School, has documented 5,000 ads since 1997. Only a third are still standing.

These two survivors have been lucky to make it into the 21st century, as neither building is landmarked, city officials said. – scahalan@nypost.com 

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-20

Nov 20th, 2011
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Desert AIDS Project – Cactus Pears – Palm Springs, CA

Nov 19th, 2011
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Stay Negative Campaign – Abstinence Sucks – Use Condoms – Los Angeles, CA

Nov 18th, 2011
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Sonny Bono Doll – Palm Springs What Nots Shop

Nov 17th, 2011
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Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians – Palm Springs, CA

Nov 16th, 2011
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Ancestors of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians settled in the Palm Springs area centuries ago and developed complex communities in the Palm, Murray, Andreas, Tahquitz, Snow Creek and Chino Canyons. Mirroring the migration stories of the Cahuilla, archaeological research has proven that humans have occupied the Tahquitz Canyon area for at least 2,000 years.

The Cahuilla and most other Tribes of the area belong to the Shoshonean division of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic family. Tribes in this group range from the Aztecs of Mexico to the Hopi, Papago and Pima of Arizona, the Ute of Colorado and other nearby regional Tribes, including the Serrano, Cupeño and Gabrielino. The Cahuilla people lived in villages, and several villages together made up a larger political and territorial unit called a tribelet, or sib. Each sib was divided into lineages, which consisted of both nuclear and extended families. Cahuilla society was also divided into two groups, or moieties, known as Wildcat and Coyote.

The Cahuilla Indian name for the Palm Springs area was Sec-he (boiling water); the Spanish in turn named it Agua Caliente (hot water). Later came the name “Palm Springs” in reference to both the native Washingtonia filifera palm tree and the Agua Caliente Hot Spring. The hot spring waters provided the Cahuilla with clean water, a place for bathing, and a connection point with a spiritual underworld populated by nukatem, or ancient sacred beings. The hot spring’s waters were also utilized for healing purposes, as they are even today. – Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians – A Sovereign Tribal Government

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Stop The Pig Mural – by JAYA – A Women’s Artists Collective Citywide Murals – Venice, CA

Nov 15th, 2011
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In March 1974, Judy Baca of the City Wide Mural Project approached Jaya (Sanskrit for non-violent Revolution/peace/victory), an active, uppity Women Artists Collective, to create a mural about the Venice Canals community and its struggle to survive the intrusion of profiteers. Open public tedious meetings and hearings for this mural were held over a period of fifteen months. This included gathering permission from the building owner, the community and their input for the mural visuals. Jaya member, Emily Winters, volunteered to facilitate their ideas into actual design. – By Emily Winters and maryjane – Free Venice Beachhead

Arizona Saddle Blanket Co. Mural – Tombstone, AZ

Nov 14th, 2011
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Venice TV Repair Shop – Venice, CA

Nov 13th, 2011
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