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The Smith Company – Wilkes-Barre City Schools 189 – Hazle & Blackman – NEPA

Nov 7th, 2012
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Wholesale Only – Distributors of Draperies & Upholstery

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

Featured Fade – Birra Itala Pilsen – Via Angarano, Bassano del Grappa (VI) – Diego D’Alba

Nov 6th, 2012
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Bassano del Grappa – Vicenza © Diego D’Alba

Birra Itala Pilsen

[Founded] in 1890, Padua Beer Cappellari recognized in 1916 by Rag. Henry Olivieri. In 1919, after the merger of Cappellari beer with beer Maura, a second factory in Padua, and [with] the input of the partner Giovanni Battista Fridge, the name was changed to Birra Itala Pilsen… History of Italian Beer

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Super Collection – Italian Beer Part Three

“Birra Itala Pilsen,” a vintage advertising poster by Leonetto Cappiello c. 1920 – CLICK FOR LARGE IMAGE

Leonetto Cappiello (9. April 1875 in Livorno, Italy – 2. February 1942 in Cannes, France) was an Italian poster artdesigner who lived in Paris. He is now often called ‘the father of modern advertising’ because of his innovation in poster design. The early advertising poster was characterized by a painterly quality as evidenced by early poster artists Jules Chéret, Alfred Choubrac and Hugo D’Alesi. Cappiello, like other young artists, worked in way that was almost the opposite of his predecessors. He was the first poster artist to use bold figures popping out of black backgrounds, a startling contrast to the posters early norm. – Wikipedia

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Germania Fire Insurance Company Bowery Building – Barber Shop Manufacturing Equipment – Pyramid Sign Co – 357 Bowery

Nov 5th, 2012
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© Frank H. Jump

GERMANIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY BOWERY BUILDING, 357 Bowery, Manhattan
Built 1870; architect, Carl Pfeiffer; builder, Marc Eidlitz

© Frank H. Jump

Designed by a prominent German-American architect and built in 1870, the Germania Fire Insurance Company Bowery Building recalls the time when the Bowery was a major thoroughfare of America’s leading German-American neighborhood. Known as Kleindeutschland, this neighborhood was home to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers of German descent, and was “in fullest bloom” when this building opened.

The Germania Fire Insurance Company was founded in 1859, counting many prominent German-born New Yorkers among its executives and directors; the firm was prospering when it constructed this building to house its Kleindeutschland office, although it moved this office farther up the Bowery after little more than a decade. The building housed tenants from the time of its opening, and by 1880, its residents included Irish, German, and Chinese immigrants. Between 1900 and 1920, industrial tenants displaced its residents, and in 1929, the building was purchased by members of two families who manufactured barber-shop and beauty-parlor equipment in the building into the early 1970s. Residents started returning by the mid-1970s, and today, the building is entirely residential. – NYC Landmark  Preservations Committee 

Barber Shop © Frank H. Jump

Pyramid Sign Co. © Frank H. Jump

Pyramid Sign Co. © Frank H. Jump

Featured Fade – Darling Shop – Ladies Childrens Apparel – Rochester, NY – Larry Tenenbaum

Nov 2nd, 2012
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© Larry Tenenbaum

Frank –

My daughter Allison and I recently joined you for the Open House New York walking tour of the fading ads of Tribeca, and we had a great time (despite the rainy weather). I don’t know if your interest extends all the way to Rochester, but I was there last week, and saw the attached fading ad from my hotel room in the Hyatt Regency. It appears to say “Darling Shop Ladies Childrens Apparel.” It’s near the corner of Main and Stone Streets in the middle of downtown Rochester.

Allison and I now regularly send each other pictures of fading ads that we happen upon. Thanks for helping to spark an interest that we can enjoy together.

Larry Tenenbaum – October 29, 2012

Thank you Larry! I’m glad you had a good time. Thank you for the pic. Give my regards to Allison and looking forward to your next pic! Best, Frank

Produits Familex – Montréal, QC – CA

Oct 25th, 2012
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© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

ON SALE Familex Culinary Secrets Cookbook, c1944 – Etsy

Courtesy of Fulton History

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Antique Art Deco Belladonna Medicine Tin Box FAMILEX Montreal Co – Butter Yellow French Apothecary Pharmacy Decor Collectible – Etsy – CLICK

Familex Perfume circa 1938 – Museum of Perfume – CLICK

Courtesy of ANTIQUE QUÉBEC MEDICINE BOTTLES- Inhalant Rhumo-Vap Familex – The Familex Products Co, Montreal. – CLICK

Metal Box – Familex Thymol Throat Pastilles Gorge – Montréal
Walking Baie-Saint-Paul © Andre Vandal

Liquid Soap – Bethlehem, PA

Oct 19th, 2012
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© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Groceries, Liquors & Segars – West Broadway – TriBeCa, NYC

Oct 10th, 2012
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© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

Thanks to Vincenzo’s eagle eye, this was the find of the weekend! I love the element of discovery even when you thought you have examined every square foot of NYC.

Fading Ads of TriBeCa Tour – OHNY – A Big Wet Success

Oct 9th, 2012
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From Fading Ads of Tribeca Walking Tour OHNY © Vincenzo Aiosa

Beautiful & dubious – From Fading Ads of NYC © Frank H. Jump

From Fading Ads of Tribeca Walking Tour OHNY © Vincenzo Aiosa

Hey- There want a table for 150! © Vincenzo Aiosa

Groceries, Liquor, Segars © Vincenzo Aiosa

From Fading Ads of Tribeca Walking Tour OHNY © Vincenzo Aiosa

From Fading Ads of Tribeca Walking Tour OHNY © Vincenzo Aiosa

From Fading Ads of Tribeca Walking Tour OHNY © Vincenzo Aiosa

© Frank H. Jump

From Fading Ads of Tribeca Walking Tour OHNY © Vincenzo Aiosa

Instagram © Frank H. Jump

From Fading Ads of Tribeca Walking Tour OHNY © Vincenzo Aiosa

Staple Street © Frank H. Jump

Staple Street © Frank H. Jump

New York Hospital – Staple Street – From Fading Ads of Tribeca Walking Tour OHNY © Frank H. Jump

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-10-07

Oct 7th, 2012
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Ghost Sign Stories: Photographer Frank Jump Is Haunted By New York’s ‘Fading Ads’ By Kim Velsey – New York Observer

Oct 6th, 2012
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The Omega Oil sign, on Frederick Douglas and 145th, that started it all. (Courtesy Frank Jump)

For more than 20 years photographer Frank Jump has been documenting New York’s fading ads. Slowly vanishing signs of yesteryear, the building ads are ephemera that has stubbornly persisted in our constantly changing urban landscape, in defiance of development, decay and all the other challenges conspiring against them. The most common term for such remnants is ghost signs, but Mr. Jump prefers fading ads. “I never felt comfortable with the word ghost,” he says. “I don’t really believe in ghosts.”

While some may see such remnants of the past as manifestations of loss, Mr. Jump sees them metaphors for survival. “Like myself, many of these ads have long outlived their expected lifespan,” he explained in a recent interview. In 1986, at the age of 26, Mr. Jump was diagnosed with HIV and told that he had a few good years left. Despite the discouraging prognosis, a decade later he was finishing his long-postponed college degree when he saw a massive, faded sign for Omega Oil at 145th Street and Frederick Douglas Boulevard. – CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

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