@ Mc Donough Street © Vincenzo Aiosa
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Broadway Sleep Mart – Furniture Manufacturing – Bushwick, Brooklyn
Saturated & Grayscaled – Split & Stacked © Frenzo
This sign looks pre-1950s © Vincenzo Aiosa
Above the lower left window you can see the word ‘furniture’ in turn-of-the-century fonts © Vincenzo Aiosa
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Vincenzo took the shots above on Park Avenue just south of Broadway with his iPhone. So this is my theory. From the look of the fonts and the weathering, the signs written on the brick between the windows are clearly very early 20th-century (c.1910). My guess is the sign for Broadway Sleep Mart can be anywhere from 1930’s to 1940’s. I’m going to assume that the proprietors conducted their business at the Park Avenue location for several decades and then outgrew their space and moved up the street on Broadway. The public records above show the address at 835 Broadway with an incorporation of 1956 – up the street a bit in a larger space, now a laundromat. Vincenzo also points out that the Park Avenue location may have been maintained as a warehouse. I’m also inferring from these records that in 1962, they changed the name of the store.
Seal of New York City – P.S. 119 Amersfort School – Flatlands, Brooklyn
© Frank H. Jump
Previously posted earlier this week in TriBeCa, the Seal of New York City is pictured here on our school which was built in 1901. According to Wikipedia:
The seal of the city of New York, adopted in an earlier form in 1686, bears the legend SIGILLUM CIVITATIS NOVI EBORACI which means simply “The Seal of the City of New York”: Eboracum was the Roman name for York, the titular seat of James II as Duke of York.
In both decorative wall plaques, the bald eagle is looking to the “sinister” side where a Lenape Indian stands. The seal represented in the Wikipedia article shows the eagle looking towards the “dexter” figure, a mariner colonist who holds a plummet in his right hand.
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Canned Salmon & Tuna – Whitney Fidalgo Seafoods – Samuel Rubinstein – Williamsburg, Brooklyn
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Samuel Rubinstein, 1917-2007 In 1946, Rubinstein bought the Fidalgo Island Packing Company and renamed his company. He took it public in 1969.¹ In 1977, Rubinstein sold 99% to Kyokuyo Ltd. a Japanese corporation. Plants were located at Anchorage, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Naknek, Petersburg, Port Graham, Uyak and others.²
- Sam Rubinstein, 1917-2007: He shaped and supported city’s arts – Seattle PI – February 1, 2007
- BUSINESS PEOPLE; Former Owner Returns To Whitney-Fidalgo Sam Rubinstein, who sold his Seattle fish processing company to the Japanese a decade ago, had expected to spend much of this winter golfing and playing tennis. – NY Times, Feb 13, 1984
- Digital Collections of Carnegie Mellon University
