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Quaker Oats – Sandra Walker, RI – Watercolourist

This is the photograph © Sandra Walker, RI

This is the photograph © Sandra Walker, RI

© Sandra Walker, RI

This is the watercolor © Sandra Walker, RI

Previously posted April 17, 2007

I Am For Men – Denver CO – Sandra Walker, RI

© Sandra Walker, RI

© Sandra Walker, RI

Macy*s on Fourteenth – West 14th b/w 5th & 6th Avenues – NYC

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

February 1997 © Frank H. Jump

West 148th Street & Frederick Douglass Boulevard (taken March 1997). Originally posted @ Fading Ad Campaign Website © Frank H. Jump

See Kevin Walsh’s Forgotten-NY for more in-depth historical context of Macy*s early ventures.

Auto Hardware – Eighth Avenue & W56th Street

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Missing Mr. Peanut in Wilkes-Barre, PA

Before the Wrecking Ball © Frank H. Jump

Before the Wrecking Ball © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Keeps Colors From Fading – Lafayette & East 9th Street – Just North of St. Marks, NYC

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Previous postings

Philadelphia Fades – Kristi Siegel Capone

© Kristi Siegel Capone

TJ Cobourn Grocery - Camac Food Market © Kristi Siegel Capone

© Kristi Siegel Capone

© Kristi Siegel Capone

© Kristi Siegel Capone

© Kristi Siegel Capone

© Kristi Siegel Capone

Cunningham Building © Kristi Siegel Capone

© Kristi Siegel Capone

McDonalds, Market Street © Kristi Siegel Capone

Kristi Siegel Capone lives in Saint Petersberg FL and enjoys traveling and a good glass of wine. Welcome Kristi to the Fading Ad Blog National Correspondents’ Pool and leave her a comment!

Kristi Siegel Capone

Kristi Siegel Capone

Other Cobourn Grocery shots.

The Albra Metal Foundry – Aiosa & Grutchfield – Long Island City, Queens

Albra - © Vincenzo Aiosa

Albra - © Vincenzo Aiosa

© Walter Grutchfield

© Walter Grutchfield

Sunday's Feature Fades – Bob Kisken Out Midwest

Cheyenne, WY

© Bob Kisken

© Bob Kisken

Casper, WY

© Bob Kisken

© Bob Kisken

© Bob Kisken

© Bob Kisken

Bruce’s Crossing, MI

© Bob Kisken

© Bob Kisken

Denver, CO

© Bob Kisken

© Bob Kisken

© Bob Kisken

© Bob Kisken

© Bob Kisken

© Bob Kisken

Huron, SD

© Bob Kisken

© Bob Kisken

Lacrosse, WI

© Bob Kisken

© Bob Kisken

Mayflower Ice Cream – Long Island City

© Vincenzo Aiosa

November 20, 2008 © Vincenzo Aiosa

October 12, 2008 © Frank H. Jump

October 12, 2008 © Frank H. Jump

October 12, 2008 © Frank H. Jump

October 12, 2008 © Frank H. Jump

October 12, 2008 © Frank H. Jump

October 12, 2008 © Frank H. Jump