Composite shot – © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms
Uneeda Biscuit – Moglia’s Ice Cream – Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum – Morristown, NJ
Morris Street across from the train station © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
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Morris Street across from the train station © Frank H. Jump
Moglia’s – The Ice Cream That’s Different – © Frank H. Jump
After Every Meal…Wrigley’s Spearmint Chewing Gum – The Flavor Lasts © Frank H. Jump
Duke University Digital Libraries – Atlantic City circa 1925
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Duke University Photo Credits
The Notorious B.I.G. Mural – Queens Graffiti – August 2010 – Gaia Son
August 2010 © Gaia Son
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), better known by his stage names The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie or Biggie Smalls, was an American rapper. – Wikipedia
Had he not been killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, Biggie would have been 42. Another great shot of this mural can be seen on Not A Queens Photo Blog [http://bit.ly/Z2X0Gq].
Den Haag Repaint – P. v. Osselen Automobielen Garage – Verhuur en reparatie van rijwielen en automobielen – Lowlands Correspondent, Gaia Son
Telephoon N° 661© Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
Verhuur en reparatie van rijwielen en automobielen – Rent and repair of bicycles (archaic) and automobiles © Gaia Son
I appreciate the efforts to restore these ads but I wish they would just leave them alone. Many are not nearly as aesthetically pleasing than the original fade (i.e. Philips, Harlingen NL).
Jacobs Garage – Dr. Jim’s Lofts – 3450 SE Alder – Portland, OR – Pacific NW Correspondent, Howie Schechter
© Howie Schechter
Notes from an Early Assistance Appointment held in 2012 (EA 12-120164) identified the building being constructed in 1919 as a warehouse and/or garage, with a 1961 variance (VZ 38-61) allowing the building to be occupied as a nonconforming printing plant and warehouse. – City of Portland, Oregon – Bureau of Development Services – Land Use Services – April 5, 2013
Blueprints from the proposal to convert the existing nonconforming warehouse structure on the site to four dwelling units. – City of Portland http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bds/article/442832
According to the developer, Dr. Jim:
The Dr. Jim’s Lofts imaginatively adapted a turn-of-the-century Standard Dairy building into four single-family lofts ranging from an airy 2-bedroom to a cavernous 4-bedroom. CHANGING PORTLAND 3000FT AT A TIME.
Koffie Rombouts – Antwerpen, BE – Lowlands Correspondent, Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
ANTWERP (Belgium). Bogie motor car type 7000 (1908-1975). With publicity of “Koffie Rombouts”. Postcard of VETRAMU/AMUTRA No. 39. Photo E. Keutgens. – The Traveler’s Drawer
© Gaia Son
Alles begint in Antwerpen, waar Frans Rombouts op een dag besluit een brandtrommel te huren om zijn eigen koffie te branden. – It all began in Antwerp, where Frans Rombouts decided one day to rent a coffee roasting drum to roast his own coffee. – Rombouts Website History
© Gaia Son
Gaia Son in the Ghardaïa Province- Algeria, March 2007
El Goléa – oasis town and commune – capital of El Ménia District, in Ghardaïa Province, Algeria. © Gaia Son
This summer I spent a week with my friends Gaia Son (FAB’s Lowlands Correspondent) and her husband Bob Kovel (artiste extraordinaire) in Amersfoort, NL. One night Gaia showed me some of her photographs and I insisted on her curating some virtual exhibitions for the Fading Ad Blog. This first slideshow is of Son’s trip through the Ghardaïa Province in Algeria- located in The M’Zab Valley (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) in the Sahara Desert and ending in Outoul in the south of Algeria.
Gaia Son with her Touareg Berber guides – photo by Louis Cador
