© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
As advertised in Black Enterprise in April 1974 – Google Books
Ad in Black Enterprise
International Air Transport Association logo
Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms
Hotel Turock – Turock Bros. For Coal Hauling – Main Street – Dickson City, PA
’35¢ Per 100 Lbs’ © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Turock Bros. – Phone 640 – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE © Frank H. Jump
CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE © Frank H. Jump
Coal, Ice, Wood – 1301 Main Street – Dickson City – © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
THE DICKSON CITY BOROUGH SCHOOL District solicits sealed bids for the furnishing of Janitors’ Supplies of the Second Class for the School Year 1938 – 37. Lists of supplies can be secured from the Secretary. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. A certified check of 10 per cent of the amount of the bid shall accompany each bid. All bids to be In the hands of the Secretary. John J. Turock. on July 1. 1936. at 7:30 P. M., at which time they shall be opened and read at an Adjourned Regular Meeting of the Board In the Board Room. JOHN J. TUROCK, Secretary, 1301 Main Street, Dickson City, Pa. – June 24, 1936 – The Scranton Republican from Scranton, Pennsylvania · Page 30
H.J. Stoll & Sons Inc. – Feeds & Concentrates – Montgomery Brothers – Portland, OR – Pacific NW Correspondent – Howie Schechter
© Howie Schechter
The building pictured is located on NW Marshall. “H. J. STOLL & SONS was formed on 1938-01-17 in Oregon by ROBERT F STOLL located at 2320 SE GRAND AVE, PORTLAND, OR, 97214. It is no longer active.” – Business Profiles dot com
© Howie Schechter
Farm Scene – Oregon Feed & Grain Association
H.J. Stoll is a Honorary Lifetime Member of the Oregon Feed & Grain Association.
Back of building – © Howie Schechter
Mussolini in Monta – Echoes of Fascism in Italia – Willemieke Molenaar
Monta – Via Maccalle
© Willemieke Molenaar
© Willemieke Molenaar
Hi Frankele,
My friend Willemieke Molenaar showed me these photos she took last summer while on vacation in Piemonte. They were taken in Monta, South East of Torino….The fading ad is a portrait of Benito himself, still there from WW-II times. If you look carefully you can see bullet holes in the wall. Supposedly the portrait is regularly being shot at, I guess to show how people feel about it. Curious what you think about it!
Lfs,
Gaia [Son, Lowlands Correspondent]
Lingotto, Torino – Via Nizza
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
CLICK FOR MORE FASCIST REMNANTS IN NORTHERN ITALY © Frank H. Jump
La Patria non si nega ma si conquista – Mussolini A. XIV
Don’t deny your country but conquer it (or conquer for it)
Lazarus im Schnee – Backyard Scarecrow’s Ode to Spring
Lazarus M. Snow © Frank H. Jump
Mag da draußen Schnee sich türmen,
Mag es hageln, mag es stürmen,
Klirrend an mein Fenster schlagen,
Nimmer will ich mich beklagen!
Denn ich trage in der Brust
Liebchens Bild und Frühlingslust.
Let snow on itself be piled,
Let the howling storm rage wild,
Beating o’er the window-pane,
Never more will I complain,
For within my heart bide warm
Spring-tide joy and sweetheart’s form.
(Translation attributed to Emma Lazarus – with some tweaks by me)
Heinrich Heine (1797 – 1856)
Mortal, sneer not at the devil;
Life’s a short and narrow way,
And perdition everlasting
Is no error of the day.
Mortal, pay thy debts precisely,
Life’s a long and weary way;
And to-morrow thou must borrow,
As thou borrow’dst yesterday.
Emma Lazarus (1849 – 1887)
DeRobertis, Richard Yee’s – What’s Next? SAVE NYC
When I read about DeRobertis closing in Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY in November of last year, I somehow was not surprised. Not because I’m a jinx and I took pics of the interior in May of that year, although – I wouldn’t recommend you letting me take pics of your new home, your wedding or newborn. It’s not because I’ve lived this never-ending Twilight Zone episode of loss in my life that I have seemed to conveniently document through photography – it’s just inevitable.
May 2014 © Frank H. Jump
May 2014 © Frank H. Jump
May 2014 © Frank H. Jump
May 2014 © Frank H. Jump
May 2014 © Frank H. Jump
I frequently pass Richard Yee’s ghost that still lays fallow on Avenue U and think when will this be replaced by at best, a local grocer and at worst, another Rite-Aid. We can use another good Chinese restaurant but that would be wishful thinking.
© Frank H. Jump
And in light of the many closings of businesses that seem to be staples and undying institutions, you have to ask yourself- “What is next?”
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Frank Jump in front of my friend David’s Rebel Rebel Records on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village. © Frank H. Jump
Many stores we frequent in Queens like Rudy’s Cafe in Ridgewood – and in Brooklyn like Three Guys on 65th Street where we buy our fresh produce – are small businesses whose doors remain open because faithful neighborhood consumers keep them alive. If you like a business in your neighborhood and want them to remain there, shop there. That’s why we buy all of our milk and ice-cream and pastries at Lords Bakery at Flatbush Junction, because I don’t want to see them have to close their doors. With the rising rents and pressure from mega-stores popping up almost everywhere and never-ending changing trends – the fate of the small business almost seems inevitable. Even in places that don’t seem to be in flux.
CLICK FOR SAVE NYC PAGE
It is time to take action and to demand action from our city government. Save New York! Join the Save New York Facebook page to start organizing with other New Yorkers today. Use the hashtag #SaveNYC when you tweet.
Thank you,
Jeremiah Moss
Vanishing New York
Mobiloil & Dunlop Tyres from Down Under – Brunswick East, Melbourne, OZ – Gabriele Rigato & John Hunter, Lost Melbourne
Lost Melbourne Facebook Group © Gabriele Rigato
Since I started photographing signs in 1983, I have been impressed that no one ever put graffiti on any of the signs regardless of whether they were on existing buildings, construction sites or demolition areas. The most I had seen was four chalk marks someone had drawn in the ring of a letter “O” to make a face out of it. The graffiti drawn on the Dunlop sign is a very recent exception. The Mobiloil sign is untouched. – John Hunter
Old Sign Writing – March 2, 2015 © John Hunter
Lee’s Save The Baby – More Misbranded Nostrums from Our Not-So-Distant Past
Etsy
I stayed home from work today with a cough and low-grade fever. I called my dad and he remembered when he was young his mom would run to the cabinet for Lee’s Save the Baby. So I was intrigued by his story and decided to investigate this brand. From entries in the 1962 The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Medical Quackery in 20th Century America to medical journals as early as 1918, it is evident how a Federal agency was developed for the protection of the public from cure all brands like Lee’s Save The Baby.
The Pennsylvania Medical Journal, Volume 22 – December 1918
Etsy cropped
The Inside Story of Medicines: A Symposium – edited by Gregory Higby, Elaine Condouris Stroud – 1997
Old Fulton History – Tom Trysnicki
Worthpoint
Yet even as late as 1973, nostalgia for a product wins over efficacy.
Old Fulton History – Tom Trysnicki – Troy NY Times Record – January, 1973
Lee’s Save The Baby was a regional New York State brand that gained popularity as far a Massachusetts. Looking at the ingredients, how much different is it from let’s say a Tiger Balm or Vicks Vaporub except the substitute for lard with petroleum.
