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April, 2014:

Adamba Imports – Founded in 1985 – Lorimer Street – Greenpoint, Brooklyn

© Vincenzo Aiosa

Greenwich Fixture Co., Inc. – Store Interiors – Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Dobbin Street © Vincenzo Aiosa

Featured Fade – Saddle Horses For Sale – Del’Osso Farms, Lathrop CA – Ilene Browning

© Ilene Browning

© Ilene Browning

Back in 2009, Enzo and I were on our cross-country tour in our RV and we passed this at about 60 miles an hour and could not figure out how to turn around and get it. My high school buddy Ilene said she lived around there and would snap it for me. It’s only been five years, but it was worth the wait. Thank you Ilene!

Del’Osso farms has the worlds largest corn maze at halloween and site of the Mud Run. – Ilene Browning

Royal Lace Paper Works, Inc – Lorimer Street – Greenpoint, Brooklyn

© Vincenzo Aiosa

LIFE Magazine – October 10, 1955 – Google Books

© Vincenzo Aiosa

Life Magazine – April 26, 1954 – Google Books – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE

eBay

© Vincenzo Aiosa

 Available in many gay, colorful and completely new patterns [that] never fades, never curls.

Gruhn Guitars Revisited – Nashville, TN – August 2009

© Frank H. Jump

After posting Alison Fraser’s feature at the end of March, I decided to dig in my archive of our cross-country RV trip and look what I found. I knew it looked familiar!

American-National Bag & Burlap Co – Rap-Id-Wrap – Tubing & Burlap Co – Bergen Street – Crown Heights, Brooklyn 1998

© Frank H. Jump

White Castle – East Ward Missionary – Bronx – Queens Correspondent, Marie Anne O’Donnell

Animation by FHJ – © Marie Anne O’Donnell

Entranceway Stairs Kick Back Tiles – Gryphon & Butterfly – Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint

860 Manhattan Avenue just south of Milton on west side. © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Maggi Billboard – Olympic Electric – Sayyidah Zaynab Square, Cairo – Uptown Correspondent, Iman R. Abdulfattah

© Iman R. Abdulfattah

© Iman R. Abdulfattah

© Iman R. Abdulfattah

IMAN: My final contribution from Cairo: the ads are rather dull (both the typography and companies advertised), but the high concentration of ads in this area is visually interesting and says a lot about cityscape.

FAB: Just got your upload. So, the Maggi ad is self-explanatory. What does the other one say? I see “olympics” or is that a car logo?

IMAN: The ad on the right is for an appliance company called Olympic Electric, but it is also a palimpsest as the black text is an ad for an advertising company called Diana.

A&P Supermarket – Calyer & Lorimer – Greenpoint, Brooklyn

© Frank H. Jump

Hue and saturation © Frank H. Jump

Formerly posted in Fading Ads of Greenpoint Walking Tour 2013 © Frank H. Jump