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Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms

Unknown Electrical Supply – East New York Blvd, Crown Heights, Brooklyn

© Frank H. Jump

Across Lincoln Terrace Park © Frank H. Jump

Indecipherable Fading Ad – Flatbush Avenue Extension – Manhattan Bridge Entrance

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Indecipherable Fading Ad – Center Street – Soho, NYC

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

My guess is this is a cigarette or cigar ad, although my tweaking with Photoshop hasn’t revealed anything substantial. Still searching the historical photo archives for an earlier shot.

Gold Medal Flour – Williamsburg, Brooklyn – Eston Lee Taylor

© Eston Lee Taylor

Behind Broadway off Bedford under the Williamsburg Bridge © Eston Lee Taylor

Society Smoke…Cigar! Wall Sign Revisited – Theatre District, NYC

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Other Society Smoke Cigar postings before & during adjacent buildings demolition.

Reckitt’s Blue In Hiding – 622 Washington Avenue – Brooklyn

Prospect Heights - © Frank H. Jump

Prospect Heights – © Frank H. Jump

Between this lovely late 19th-century Brooklyn building and this horrific modern architectural eyesore – an ultramarine gem is patiently waiting to be unobscured once again.

© Frank H. Jump 1997

© Frank H. Jump 1997

Other Reckitt’s postings.

Fletcher's Castoria – Double Feature – Weehawken, NJ

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

Other Fletcher’s postings

See the Fletcher’s Fading Ad Campaign webpage!

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Calabro Real Estate – Graffiti – Nostrand Avenue – Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn

© Frank H. Jump

BE-9 telephone exchange © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Clearly visible is the BEachview telephone exchange.

More on phone exchanges:

Barefoots & Jackson Furniture Co – Wilmington, NC

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Flickr

Flickr

Colgas Varnish – Market Street – Wilmington, NC

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump