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OZ Correspondent – Nicole Wilson – Oxol Fluid Beef Co & Grandas (Cigar?) Pentimento – Montréal, QC

Sep 5th, 2013

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Dominion Medical Monthly & Ontario Medical Journal – January – December 1901 – Google Books

The Russell by Frills (1889)

This is a stretch but I am making a leap of faith that the GRANDAS on this pentimento is associated with the Montreal resident Jose Granda – cigar maker – immigrant from Spain. Below is the obituary of his daughter Mary Cook.

Obituary

COOK, Mary (nee Granda) August 10th, 1924 – October 13th, 2012

Passed away at Father Dowd Memorial Home at the age of eighty-eight after a courageous battle with Alzheimer’s. Mary’s late father, Jose Granda, and his brothers were among the first immigrants from Spain to settle in Montreal in 1900 as founding partners in Jose Granda Cigars Ltd on St-Laurent Boulevard. She was predeceased by her brothers Pepe, Adolpho, Armando, Domingo and John, and by her sisters Feliz, Blanca, Luz and Paulina.

Beloved wife of Mr. Douglas James Cook and devoted mother to Linda (Bill Dalziel), Eric (Kathleen Casey) and Nina (Peter Walker). Loving Tita to Ryan, Kristin, Michael, Morgan, Andrew, Stuart, Michael, Maria, Evan and Casey. She will be greatly missed by her great-granddaughter Maya, her nieces and nephews as well as many other relatives and friends.

Family will receive condolences at Kane and Fetterly Funeral Home (5301, Decarie Boulevard (corner Isabella), Montreal, H3W 3C4) on Friday, November 2nd from 2 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. A memorial mass will be celebrated at St-Ignatius Parish (4455 West Broadway, Montreal) on Saturday, November 3rd at 10:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations to Alzheimer Society would be appreciated.

Published in The Gazette on October 24, 2012

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Selling Smoke – How Canadian cigar boxes pitched their wares – 1883 – 1935 – Civilization dot ca

Posted in: Cigars, Medical Preparations, Montréal Canada, Nicole Wilson, Obituary, OZ Correspondent, Pentimento, Snake Oil.

Queens Correspondent – Marie Anne O’Donnell – Fletcher’s Castoria Ad Remnant – The Kind You Have Always Bought – 39th Avenue – Astoria, Queens

Sep 4th, 2013

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The Kind You Have Always Bought © Marie Anne O’Donnell

Lewiston Saturday Journal – April 30, 1902 – © Google Books

From 39th Avenue platform in March 1963 – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE © David Pirmann/nycsubways.org

Posted in: Astoria, Fletcher's Castoria, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Marie Anne O'Donnell, Queens, Queens Correspondent.

Featured Fade – Bronx Furniture Warehouse Outlet – Bronx – David Silver

Sep 3rd, 2013

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East 152nd Street off of Melrose Avenue – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – © David Silver

Posted in: Bronx, David Silver, Featured Fade, Furniture, Mack Signs.

Uptown Correspondent – Iman R. Abdulfattah – Chilcote Tap – Cleveland, OH

Sep 2nd, 2013

by Frank.

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The Chilcote Company, doing business as Tap Packaging Solutions, manufactures paper packaging and presentation products. The company offers confectioner packaging products, including a range of stock and customizable candy boxes; and photographic packaging products, such as albums, mounts, folders, frames, presentation boxes, proofing systems, and more for traditional and digital photos. It also provides specialty packaging products, including folding cartons and set up boxes; informational packaging, such as binders, certificate holders, plastic presentation pages, book covers, binders, and presentation folders; and entertainment packaging products, food containers, and more. The company serves retail stores, advertising agencies, marketing companies, confectioners, government agencies, and others. It sells its online and through a network of distributors to customers in the United States, Canada, and Hawaii. The company was founded in 1906 and is based in Cleveland, Ohio with manufacturing facilities in Cleveland, Ohio; and San Antonio, Texas. – Inside View

Posted in: Cleveland OH, Iman R. Abdulfattah, Packaging, Uptown Correspondent.

Featured Fade – David Silver – A&P Parking Sign – Near Old Ebbets Field – Crown Heights

Sep 1st, 2013

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The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE © David Silver

Posted in: A&P Supermarkets, Crown Heights, David Silver, Featured Fade, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms.

Karl Ehmer Pork Store – Ridgewood, Queens

Aug 31st, 2013

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Posted in: Pork Stores, Queens, Ridgewood.

George Hummel – The Ridgewood Furniture & Carpet House – Bushwick, Brooklyn

Aug 30th, 2013

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1497-1603 – 1900’s telephone numbers © Vincenzo Aiosa

George Hummel, Sr. (1851-1911) an acclaimed furniture & cabinet maker, was the son of stone mason David Hummel, a German immigrant who settled in Cincinnati, OH in 1841 according to Constance Lee Menefee, “with optimism and a trade.” There he started the Hummel Building Company. Menefee further states:

At that time Cincinnati was on the crest of a building and expansion boom….David Hummel died in 1894, leaving the business in the capable hands of his three sons: George, Frank and William. Each had been trained as an apprentice to a stone mason, blacksmith or carpenter and each worked at the stone yard and had supervised construction.¹

According to Digging Cincinnati:

In 1893, George Hummel, Sr. was the first to build his home at 3423 Whitfield Avenue. This home remained in his family until his wife, Ella, passed away in 1947. This home, designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.²