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Featured Fade – F. Weber – Manufacturers of Artists Colors – Philadephia, PA – Triborough

Feb 15th, 2012
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Frank Jump @ Fading Ads of NYC on WFUV’s Cityscape | 90.7 with George Bodarky – Saturday, February 18th @ 7:30AM

Feb 14th, 2012
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7:30 AM on Cityscape with George Bodarky

New York City’s saturated with advertisements. They’re on buses, in the subways, atop taxis, and along highways. But, it’s not the newest Calvin Klein ad that catches the attention of acclaimed photographer and urban documentarian Frank Jump. He likes to document so-called ghost signs in the city. These ads from a bygone era are visible, but often overlooked — and for Jump, they’re also a metaphor for his own long survival with HIV. Several of Jump’s photographs are included in a new book called Fading Ads of New York City (History Press). Jump is our guest on this week’s Cityscape.

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Feb 12th, 2012
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Featured Fades – Lipton’s – A Place to Shop for Women & Children & Bloomfield’s Best Hatter & Haberdasher – Fischer’s Men’s Shop at the Centre – Bloomfield, NJ – James Curran, 2010

Feb 12th, 2012
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Bloomfield, NJ 2010 © James Curran

BLOOMFIELD — A rare glimpse of Depression-era Bloomfield is on display just steps away from the town center, where two old-time advertisements painted on the brick side of a Washington Street building have been unveiled after being covered up since the 1930s.

Now the advertisements, and the wall they’re painted on at the corner of the corner of Washington Street and Lackawanna Place across from the train station, are slated to be razed too, as part of the town’s redevelopment plan.

The ads for Lipton’s department store and Fischer’s, a men’s clothing and hat shop, are relics of a bygone era in Bloomfield and evoke a certain nostalgia among some of the town’s older residents, said Jean Kuras, president of the Bloomfield Historical Society. – Aliza Appelbaum – The Star-Ledger

 Lipton’s – A Place to Shop for Women & Children

13 Broad Street at the Centre © James Curran

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Bloomfield’s Best Hatter & Haberdasher – Fischer’s Men’s Shop at the Centre

Stetson Hats - Manhattan Shirts © James Curran

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Spare Times for Feb. 10-16 By THOMAS GAFFNEY – NYTIMES – Frank Jump @ Brooklyn Historical Society – February 15th

Feb 10th, 2012
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     Brooklyn Historical Society: ‘Fading Ads of Brooklyn’ (Wednesday, February 15) Vintage advertisements that were put on brick walls around the city decades ago are still in plain sight, and some have survived for almost a century. The photographer Frank Jump will discuss the phenomenon of the fading ads and his endeavor to document them. At 7 p.m., 128 Pierrepont Street, near Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights, (718) 222-4111, brooklynhistory.org; $10, or $8 for members.

From the book Fading Ads of NYC - History Press © Frank H. Jump

Featured Fade – Mail Pouch Tobacco – Beacon, NY – David Silver

Feb 10th, 2012
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© David Silver

This is on East Main Street, just beyond the railroad crossing, and across Fishkill Creek. – David Silver

Eat H-O & Quaker Oats Ad — NYPL Digital Gallery – Brooklyn Terminal @ Brooklyn Bridge

Feb 6th, 2012
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54 Fulton Street before 1908. Image source: Buffalo 1908, published by the Buffalo Evening News.

Edward Elsworth was the son of a very successful New York City man of the same name. With his family money, Edward ventured into his own entreprenurial waters in 1890 when he purchased Hornby’s Oats from the estate of Alexaner Hornby in Craigville, NY. Only Hornby had perfected the formula for quick-cooking oats, and Elsworth picked a winner because breakfast cereals were beginning to soar in popularity. He moved the entire factory to Lockport, Illinois, close to the source of grain and to Great Lakes shipping. He named his rolled oats product Paw-Nee and it sold very well in the Midwest.

In 1893, the New Yorker looked to Buffalo to expand his production. In his mid-30s by this time, he was tall with graying hair and was considered ‘colorful.’ At 54 Fulton Street, he constructed a wood-framed food mill, a feed mill, and an elevator. Between 1896 and 1908 he added a brick-framed elevator, and appended the buildings for use as storage, laboratory, and offices. [These original buildings survived until 1987 when destroyed by fire.] – Read more@ Western NY Heritage Press

National Magazine, October 1905 - Public Domain - Obtained through Wikipedia Commons

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Feb 5th, 2012
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Jan 29th, 2012
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Campbell’s Monarch Flour – Pool & Billards Parlor – Queen Street E – Leslieville – Toronto, CA

Jan 28th, 2012
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Pool & Billiards Parlor - Up Stairs © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

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