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October, 2012:

Downtown Denver Wheatpaste – Walnut Street Alleyway & 26th Street – Denver, CO

© Frank H. Jump

Open House New York: A Decade of Showcasing New York’s Secret Spaces – Observer

It’s that time of year again when New York flings open its too-often locked and double barred doors for the 10th annual Open House New York (OHNY) weekend. The event promises unprecedented access to the cities myriad of architectural, cultural and historical gems. From the spectacular—The Grand Masons Lodge, which is participating with the event again this year at its historic 23rd street location—to the austere—the Brooklyn Army Terminal, an imposing 5 million square-foot site of criss-crossed steel and exposed concrete—to the just plain obscure and whimsical—come explore the lost streams of New York, which can be observed, using a flashlight, through the ventilation holes of old manhole covers, but normally that’s about it.

It’s a wonderland, this city.

Likewise, the Fading Ads of New York City tour offers a chance to stop and remember the New York that once was. The tour is directed by the remarkable Frank Jump, a documentarian and historian of these commercial artifacts for more than twenty years now, whose breadth of knowledge on the topic is unsurpassed.

Open House New York

Puritan Pie Co – Champa Street – Five Points – Denver, CO

© Frank H. Jump

Ebay

© Frank H. Jump

The Snowden Apartments were diagonally across the intersection of 26th and Champa from the Puritan Pie Company. Some of Neal’s older brothers made moonshine in the apartment; they felt that the smell of the baking pies covered that of the mash! – Denver Beat Tour

Fading Ads of Chelsea/Flatiron Tour this Weekend! – Philip Morris – America’s Finest Cigarette – cough

Instagram © Frank H. Jump

From The Fading Ads of New York CIty – History Press, November 2011 © Frank H. Jump

Showtime Two – Unisex Salon – Allentown, PA

© Frank H. Jump

P & P Mill – Allentown, PA

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

P & P Mills was a former 1904 silk ribbon mill , now renovated and rezoned as a residential loft apartment building.