© Frank H. Jump
Midtown NYC
Atlantic Bank of NY – West 35th Street, NYC
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Previous postings:
- Atlantic Bank of NY – Fading Ad Blog
- Atlantic Bank of NY – Wikipedia
Globe Electrotype Company – Robert L. Stillson Color Printing Company – West 38th Street
© Frank H. Jump
Previously posted on Fading Ad Blog:
Other Internet resources:
- Walter Grutchfield’s 14-42 – for a great history of these companies.
- Electrotyping – Wikpedia
Now & Then – Mietek Paluszek (1943) – Mitch Paluszek
Mietek Paluszek in front of Harriet Hubbard ad & Eugenics Publishing Co © Mitch Paluszek
CP Goerz American Optical Co. © Mitch Paluszek
Just want to share a freaky faded ad thing. I went for one of my long walks (it’s my thing) back in March and took a pic from 2nd Avenue and 34th of a faded sign. (I had seen it a million times and thought that now, it deserved a photo.) Later that week, quite by coincidence, I was scanning old family pictures, and I stumbled into a picture of my dad from the rooftop of his tenement flat on 2nd and 34th, proudly wearing his GI fatigues as he was about to go off to war (the big one, WWII). Let’s just say as I looked at my dad’s pic, I almost started to shake, and I went to see the pic I took just that previous weekend. I’m sure you’ll see what I mean.
Mitch
