July 2009 © Frank H. Jump
Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms
10th annual Open House New York – PLANET CHOCKO – art/music/movies/beyond – October 9th, 2012 by Mr. C
On Saturday, I was able to attend 3 open house NY events. The 1st was a walk through Chelsea to rediscover old NYC and the fading ads that silently adorn to the buildings as people passby without ever noticing them. The handpainted signs/ads that cling onto these old buildings tell a great story on the history of our city! Photographer, author, and NYC Historian – Frank Jump led the talks and walks with much enthusiasm & knowledge! Checkout Frank’s book & blog called ‘Fading Ads of New York City‘. He seems to have a great passion in unearthing the New York of yesteryear by discovering and examining old signs and the businesses they were representing.
————————————————————————————————————————-
PLANET CHOCKO – 10th annual Open House New York.
F.H. Boehling Co. Feeds & Seeds – Richmond, VA
South 18th & East Cary Streets © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Boehling Family History
The Boehling family history in the United States is relatively short. The first Boehling born in America was Herman Heinrich Anton Boehling in 1850, in Richmond, Virginia. His father, Herman Heinrich Boehling and second wife, Maria Elizabeth Gerling immigrated to America from Alfhausen, Germany. Young Herman married Mary Gertrude Holzgrefe. They had 7 children, the youngest of whom was John Joseph Boehling, whose line this page traces. – Blair Museum & Historical Society
Joe Boehling 1914 Cracker Jack Baseball Card – Blair Museum & Historical Society
1917 Collins-McCarthy Candy Co. Baseball card of Joe Boehling – Blair Museum & Historical Society
Albers Rolled Oats – Frederick Hotel – Spokane, WA – July 2009 – History of Oregon – Bernard Albers
© Frank H. Jump
Look For The Miner – © Frank H. Jump
Google Books
Elsewhere on the Internet:
- Flickr – November 2012 – Close-up – Army Arch
- Guy Myers – Zenfolio – 2012
- Dr. Ken Jones – 2010
C.D. Kenny Co. – Teas, Coffees, Sugars – East Main Street – Tobacco Row – Shockoe Bottom – Richmond, VA
January 2009 © Frank H. Jump
Cornelius Kenny left Ireland in 1849 during the famine as he could not collect rent from his starving tenants. He had been a prosperous farmer in Clare, living at Milford house near Milford. With him came his wife Ellen Sampson and his young family including his son Cornelius David Kenny the founder of C.D.Kenny. They moved to Rochester, Monroe County New York where they had cousins already established. In 1872 Cornelius D Kenny moved to Baltimore Maryland with his wife Clare Semmes Doyle Kenny and their daughters. He set up a highly successful business, a chain of 60 coffee shops all over the Southern states and also in Pennsylvania and Ohio and also a wholesale tea and coffee importers. He died in 1902 and received an obit in the New York Times. – Margaret Gallery (cousin of Kenny).
The C.D. Kenny Co. was founded by Rochester, N.Y., native C.D. Kenny, who arrived in Baltimore in 1872 and opened a coffee, tea and sugar store at Lexington and Greene streets. He later expanded the business to other local outlets and eventually to Washington, D.C., Richmond, Va., and most of the southern states as well as Pennsylvania and Ohio. – Baltimore Sun
UPDATED ON JULY 18, 2013
