The Kind You Have Always Bought © Marie Anne O’Donnell
Lewiston Saturday Journal – April 30, 1902 – © Google Books
From 39th Avenue platform in March 1963 – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE © David Pirmann/nycsubways.org
Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms
George Hummel – The Ridgewood Furniture & Carpet House – Bushwick, Brooklyn
1497-1603 – 1900’s telephone numbers © Vincenzo Aiosa
George Hummel, Sr. (1851-1911) an acclaimed furniture & cabinet maker, was the son of stone mason David Hummel, a German immigrant who settled in Cincinnati, OH in 1841 according to Constance Lee Menefee, “with optimism and a trade.” There he started the Hummel Building Company. Menefee further states:
At that time Cincinnati was on the crest of a building and expansion boom….David Hummel died in 1894, leaving the business in the capable hands of his three sons: George, Frank and William. Each had been trained as an apprentice to a stone mason, blacksmith or carpenter and each worked at the stone yard and had supervised construction.¹
According to Digging Cincinnati:
In 1893, George Hummel, Sr. was the first to build his home at 3423 Whitfield Avenue. This home remained in his family until his wife, Ella, passed away in 1947. This home, designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.²
George Hummel House – Cincinnati, OH – Courtesy of Wikipedia
Claireware Pottery by Claire Weissberg – National Packing Box Factory – James H. Dykeman – Union Street, Brooklyn
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Bushwick Paper Box Co. © Frank H. Jump
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543 Union Street – Just by the Union Street Bridge – Claireware Pottery – Handmade porcelain by Claire Weissberg
WABC Music Radio 77 Revisited – Harlem, NYC
Uneeda Biscuit – Bridge Plaza Court & Flatbush Avenue Extension – Brooklyn
© Frank H. Jump
The Perfect Soda Cracker – Uneeda Biscuit – National Biscuit Company (which later became Nabisco).- This sign and countless other remnants from Maine to California was part of their one million dollar outdoor ad campaign of 1905. Check out this sign in the winter without the foliage and see what is revealed with various filters.
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
