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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-31

  • Senator Ruben Diaz, National Organization For Marriage Protest Gay Marriage In New York (PHOTOS) http://huff.to/ohwYZN via @huffingtonpost #
  • @CancerSlam Rectal cancer (+HIV) survivor here. Big pain in the ass, but it is behind me now. #
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  • Madness in Norway // Is only the beginning // Broom across Europe #haiku #
  • Assimilation // Of American Muslims // Keeps a kettle cold #haiku #
  • Places like Holland // A tempest in a teapot // Gogh's simmering rage #haiku #
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  • Portraits From the New York City Marriage Bureau – Audio & Photos – NYTimes.com http://tumblr.com/xe73qil2ud #
  • You are more likely // To see men embracing here // Than anywhere else #haiku #
  • My husband pulls up // With Carmina Burana // Blasting from his van #haiku #inthehood #intheghetto #
  • Hear rolling thunder // Rumbling all around the mount // Still bright and sunny #haiku #thunderstorms #poconos #

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Mount Morris Baths – Steam & Turkish – Madison Avenue & 125th Street – Harlem, NYC

April 1997 © Frank H. Jump

July 2011 © Frank H. Jump

Mount Morris Baths – Steam & Turkish
Harlem, NYC-
taken April, 1997 – July, 2011

This image was originally part of a collection I call Urban EdiGlyphs- which was also featured at the THE FADING AD GALLERY in Brooklyn in 2004.

This establishment had been around since the late 1800s and gay since the 30s. It had been frequented chiefly by African-American men. When gay bath houses were systematically closed during the 80s by the NYC Dept of Health – in their hasty response to the AIDS crisis, this one was overlooked. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

Mt. Morris had remained open until 2003, when it was closed by the NYC Buildings Department for structural problems. It had come to my attention that since its closing, the “gay press” had not made the same uproar as they had over the closing of the Wall Street Sauna in 2004. It was one of few establishments in that area that distributed safe-sex information and paraphernalia. It will be sorely missed.

Remember- the AIDS crisis is not over!

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Russeks – Fulton Street Mall – Downtown Brooklyn

© Frank H. Jump

Russeks started out specializing in furs, but the Brooklyn branch and its Fifth Avenue counterpart soon became known for their women’s collections. These ads appeared in The New York Times pre-World War II. – Ephemeral NY

Pomeroy Truss Co – Livingston Street – March 1999

March 1999 © Frank H. Jump

1880 Proceedings of the Medical Society of the County of Kings

The Pennsylvania medical journal, Volume 9, Issue 2 By Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania - 1905

The Eclectic Review 1915 Volume XVIII

Unknown date and publication prior to 1941

The Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine - July 1941

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White Star – New England Distributing & Warehouse Corp. – Charlestown, MA – Barbara Snow

© B. Snow

Previously posted on FAB:

May 30th, 2008

Independence Day Featured Fade – Gallup & Stanbury Building – Denver CO – Elaine Calenda

1445 Larimer Street - Indecipherable ad may say Irving Home Cooking © Elaine Calenda

Photoshopped by Frank H. Jump© Elaine Calenda

Behind the Gallup & Stanbury building - © Elaine Calenda

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