© Frank H. Jump
Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms
Fading Ad Blog does NY Daily News: Queens Edition- Tuesday, August 25, 2010
Fading away on brick buildings throughout Queens, ‘ghost signs’ advertise the businesses and product BY NICHOLAS HIRSHON
Fading away on brick buildings throughout Queens, “ghost signs” advertise the businesses and products of yesteryear – a form of commercial art that preserves history with a vintage touch.
But the unique signs, some of which date to the 1930s, often go unnoticed by locals and tourists because the borough does not promote its own old-fashioned flair.
“They help paint the landscape you live in,” said Frank Jump, a Queens-bred blogger who photographs ghost signs. “We’re urban-dwellers. There’s not a lot of beauty in cities. It brings you back.”
To call attention to the classic ads, Jump is pushing Borough Hall to create a trail linking them with brochures or podcasts.
Jeanne Noonan for NY Daily News taking the shots for this article © Frank H. Jump
Read more:
- NY Daily News – Tuesday, August 24, 2010
- PHOTO GALLERY – NY Daily News
- Advocates of ghost sign trail in Queens garnering kudos from experts; BY NICHOLAS HIRSHON – Tuesday, August 24th 2010, 4:00 AM
- If these walls could talk: Photographer preserves fading glory of the city’s painted building ads BY JIM MELANSON – Saturday, December 16th 2000, 2:15AM
Art? Treatments or Picture & Frames? – Variety of Stores Over Time – Mouldings, Pictures & Mirrors – Kuluta Buddhist Centre – Limestone Cremation Services – Kingston, Ontario
© Frank H. Jump
Upper left - Art? in stylized letters. The newer block letters look like a proprietor's name with the last name being Wright. © Frank H. Jump
The three central vertical signs between the windows having writing going sideways. Look at the same three panels turned 90º CW below. The newer block lettering shows CAPS clearly in the center panel. © Frank H. Jump
Mouldings, Pictures & Mirrors © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
In the spirit of variety stores, this location has sold a variety of items over time.
Hemmerdinger Estate Corp – Atlas Terminals – Glendale, Queens
May 2006 © Frank H. Jump
Previously posted on Fading Ad Campaign website:
- Budweiser- The King in Queens & Hemmerdinger Estate Corp. Atlas Terminals –
off Cooper Avenue, near railroad on 80th Street overpass. Glendale, Queens – May 2006
Other Internet resources:
- Forgotten NY – Glendale by Christina Wilkinson
- PRAIRIE GRASS FURNITURE COMPANY and ATLAS TERMINALS by Arthur John Huneke
Albracht Business Services – Rituals Cosmetics – Wijde Kapelsteeg – Kalverstraat – Amsterdam, NL
First Floor, Business Administration, Office Furniture, Office Machines, Bookkeeping ? or Carbon Copy Accounting - August 1998 © Frank H. Jump
Rituals Cosmetics - July 2010 © Frank H. Jump
Internet resources:
- Albracht – Originally posted on Fading Ad Website in 1999
- Rituals Cosmetics Website
Unité, Indivisibilité de La Républic — Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité Ou La Morte — le quatorze juillet — Happy Bastille Day – Vive la France – Paris, France
34 Rue de Seine – 6éme arrondissement de Paris – © Frank H. Jump
34 Rue de Seine – 6éme arrondissement de Paris – © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Wikipedia – CLICK FOR LINK
Unity, Indivisibility of the Republic – Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death – Life Magazine – Google Images
Internet resources:
- Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité – Wikipedia
- Google Images – Life Magazine – Illustration of the French Revolutionary
- Guidelines for American Tourists
- Bastille Day – le quatorze juillet -Wikipedia
