Photography
Pintchik Paints – Rediscovering Jamaica, Jamaica Queens
© Frank H. Jump
Pintchik Paints and Mary’s Idle Hour Pizza. Check out Kevin Walsh’s Forgotten-NY Queens Fading Ads.
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Get Shorpy – The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog
My buddy Julian Seery Gude, great great grandson of advertising pioneer OJ Gude, turned me on to this blog. Great vintage photos. Above are Vincenzo, 15 years old, and brother Angelo, 11 years old, baking bread for their father at 174 Salem Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. February 1, 1917
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Fletcher's Castoria – Rediscovering Jamaica… Jamaica, Queens
© Frank H. Jump
Archer Avenue off Sutphin Blvd. Fletcher’s Castoria is one of the most prolific and lasting fading ads in the NYC area. Originally formulated as a childrens’ laxative by the Centaur Company, the slogans often read – “Fletcher’s Castoria – Made Especially for Children.”
Ebony Oil Corp. – Merrick Blvd. – Jamaica, Queens
© Frank H. Jump
As I continue posting images from my Rediscovering Jamaica, Jamaica Queens series- which was prompted by the urging my friend Thurman Mathis from my Queens College days in an effort to document the area before urban redevelopment erases all traces of Jamaica’s past- I found this article in the October 21, 1991 edition of the New York Times by Alan S. Oser entitled Perspectives: The Planner in Jamaica; Carrying the Torch for Downtown Growth , which foreshadows today’s continuing urban development. Notice the references to the Ebony Oil Corp.
