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The Alki Rainier Beer Palimpsest – Seattle, WA

© Frank H. Jump

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Vintage Seattle - CLICK FOR LINK

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Featured Fade – Tower’s Warehouses Inc. – U.S. Bonded – Dale Hopson & Carole Seif – Taken from the newly extended High Line – NYC

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Civil Service Book Shop – 89 Worth Street – NYC

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The Civil Service Bookshop at 89 Worth Street in Lower Manhattan has an old yellow sign that says “Civil Service Test Books” and “Latest Paperbacks.” So what’s the deal, I needled the owner, Roslyn Rosenfeld, you need the test books to get the job, and then the paperbacks to read, on the job? “Don’t be a wise guy, I’ve had a hard day,” Ms. Rosenfeld snapped on Wednesday. “I’m really not in the mood.” – COREY KILGANNONNY TIMES – She Sells the Books on the Civil Service – February 5, 2009,

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Featured Fade – Cinzano Liquor Ad – Near Vercelli, Italia – Diego D’Alba

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Blankets – Raincoats – Manhattan Avenue & Green Street – Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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...Gain Work © Vincenzo Aiosa

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C. Raine Co – Sheet Metal Stamping – Ice Cream Cans – Makers of Confectioners Tinware – Degraw Street – Gowanus, Brooklyn

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