© Frank H. Jump
Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms
Gatske de Wit – de Jong – Flower & Plant Retailer
My great-grandmother’s flower & plant retailing license issued in 1939 © Frank H. Jump
Valid until 1956 © Frank H. Jump
Taken after WWII in front of my great grandmother’s home and flower & plant store – © Frank H. Jump
Flowers & Plants © Frank H. Jump
Born February 21, 1882 in Leeuwarden, Friesland – Died of TB in Amsterdam in the Winter of 1960 – Bronnen Uit Amsterdam – CLICK HERE FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE & PHOTO LINK
Libbys Foods – Various Print & Outdoor Ads
Libbys Melrose Pate – Cosmopolitan Magazine – May 1904
The company was founded as Libby, McNeill & Libby in Chicago, Illinois, by Archibald McNeill and the brothers Arthur and Charles Libby. The business began with a canned meat product, beef in brine, or corned beef. It became well-known when it began to package the meat in a trapezoid-shaped can starting in 1875. – Wikipedia
© Wikipedia Commons
Libby’s Melrose Paté – Ebay
Duke University Digital Libraries
Non-fatting Libby’s – Quenches between meal hunger – Duke University – Street Scene cropped
Sunset Magazine – April 1904 – Vol. XII
Duke University Digital Libraries
Duke University Digital Libraries
Duke University Digital Libraries
How to Make Good Things to Eat- Gesine (Knubel) Lemcke – Libby, McNeill & Libby – CLICK FOR LINK
Mmm mmm good! Oops! Wrong slogan – Libby’s Magazine – How to Make Good Things to Eat
Spring 2014 Fading Ads of TriBeCa Walking Tour!
What a great day for a fading ads walking tour! Thanks Liz and the DC UrbanExplorers gang! Please share your images! And thanks to Secretary of State John Kerry and the Secret Service for the surprise appearance!
34th Street, 4th Street & Stanton Street – For Spaces 717 East 8th Street – Second Avenue – East Harlem, NYC
© Frenzo
© Frenzo
The address 717 E 8th Street no longer exists. Damon Campagna said back in December 3, 2012 in a comment on Ephemeral NY’s posting of this fading ad that “Stanton is part of what used to be called the monument district; it’s possible this is an ad for a headstone company.”
Chandler-Ebel Music Co. – Chandler Piano Co – Livingston Street, Brooklyn
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences – September 14, 1918 – Google Books
Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences – September 14, 1918 – Google Books
Chandler Piano Co./Chandler-Ebel Music Co., 222 Livingston St., (Telephone: Piano – Main 159; Music – Main 2146)
Bloomingdales – All Cars Transfer to Bloomingdale’s – Chas. H. Fletcher’s – Fletcher’s Castoria – Second Avenue – East Harlem, NYC
© Frenzo
© Frank H. Jump
© Frenzo
According to Michael J. Lisicky in his book Gimbels Has It (History Press, 2011), Bloomingdale’s was regarded as “the uptown Macy’s” until the 1950s. The well-known slogan “All Cars Transfer to Bloomingdale’s” appealed to a wide range of customers who also shopped at Gimbels and Macy’s. Founded in 1872 by Joseph and Lyman Bloomingdale, the “everything to everybody” store started becoming more upscale in 1955 when it started buying higher end fashion items to service the chic clientele of its neighborhood.
