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A Stroll Down Nostrand – Bedford-Stuyvesant

Graffiti Reward
Graffiti Reward

Nostrand Garage
Nostrand Garage

Nostrand Garage

Nostrand Barber & Cops on the Beat
Nostrand Barber

Nostrand Firemen’s Memorial
Firemen's Memorial

Firemen's Memorial

Gold Medal Flour
Gold Medal Flour

McCarty’s Billiard Parlor
Nostrand Billiards

Nostrand Billiards
© Frank H. Jump

Van Brunt Stores – Bonded & Free Warehouse – No. 9 – Red Hook Pier

Number 9

Van Brunt Warehouses

Number 9
© Frank H. Jump

Le Comte Sunset – Red Hook, Brooklyn

Le Comte - Red Hook
© Frank H. Jump

Other Le Comte postings.

Bendix Home Laundry – Bedford Avenue – Bed-Stuy 1997 – 2005

Bendix Home Laundry - Bed-Stuy
© Frank H. Jump

Bendix Home Laundry - Bed-Stuy
PHOTO BY CHRIS GLANCY taken on February 17, 2005 for an issue of SWINDLEMAGAZINE QUARTERLY.

Other Bendix postings:

Red Hook Bakery – West 9th Street – Red Hook, Brooklyn

Red Hook Bakery

Red Hook Bakery

Red Hook Bakery
© Frank H. Jump

Simoniz on the West Side Highway – S&E Motor Hire Corp.

Simoniz - West Side Highway
© Frank H. Jump

Other Simoniz postings:

Ghost Signs Finds Fading Ad Gallery Interview on YouTube – Frank Jump & Vincenzo Aiosa – Brooklyn Gay Pride – June 2006

Thanks to Sam Roberts at UK Ghost Signs, an interview by Randolfe Wicker from 2006 – back when we had a physical gallery on Myrtle (now closed) – has been discovered on YouTube.

Middendorf & Rohrs – Little West 12th Street & Hudson – West Village, NYC

Little West 12th Street
© Frank H. Jump

Just in from Flatbush Pigeon – Peaks Mason Mints – Brooklyn Heights

Peaks Mason Mints - Flatbush Pigeon
© Flatbush Pigeon

Dear Mr. Hotshot,
I know you have amassed a huge collection of beautifully composed photographs of most (if not all) faded ads in Brooklyn and beyond. However, I can’t help being visually struck by these relics and instantly thinking of you. So, a hotshot like you probably already has snapped this one but if not, here ya go. (Taken somewhere around Fulton and Hicks).
Cheers,
Erin, The Pige

Thanks for thinking of me Erin!

Constitution Wharf – Charlestown, MA

Restaurant Supplies

Restaurant Supplies - Constitution Wharf
© Frank H. Jump