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Dreater Coal & Lumber – Carbondale, PA
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© Frank H. Jump
126 Years Ago Today: Conyngham, Wilkes-Barre coal mine explosion kills twelve workers.
- Historical Coal Mine Disasters in the Anthracite Region – US Department of Labor
Carney’s Drugs – Fell Township – Carbondale, PA
Stella d’Oro Restaurant – E. Paul Sayegh Law Offices – Kingsbridge, Bronx NYC
Broadway & W237th Street © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Fudge-filled cookies and crunchy breadsticks. Stella D’oro, Italian for star of gold, instantly conjures images of baked goods in the minds of people throughout the country. For the Kingsbridge factory’s nearby neighbors, its distinctive scripted logo can also trigger memories of batting for the Stella D’oro Little League team, eating in the Stella D’oro restaurant or coming home from school and being carried away by the aroma of the cookies being made.
The company that began in 1930 is likely to end its nearly 80 year run in Kingsbridge when the factory is shut down in October. To its neighbors and the family that can claim the famous fragrance as its legacy, the decades have been about more than just cookies.
Joseph Kresevich, an Italian immigrant, and his wife, Angela Kresevich, opened up their first factory on Bailey Avenue around 1930 (there’s actually no family consensus on the company’s official beginning, though its trucks have that year emblazoned across them).
The Kresevichs moved the plant to its current location on West 237th Street and Broadway around 1950 and also opened up a red-checkered-tablecloth restaurant on the site within the decade. – Riverdale Press
- That’s the way the cookies crumble in Kingbridge – Riverdale Press, 7/23/09
- Stella D’oro – Eating in Translation – May 2, 2010
People on Streets – Under Pressure
Washington, DC – July, 2012 © Frank H. Jump
Chicago, IL – April, 2009 © Vincenzo Aiosa
Montréal, QB – August 2010 © Frank H. Jump
Washington, DC – July, 2012 © Frank H. Jump
- Homelessness – Category – Fading Ad Blog
This is our last dance…
Champlain Building – 37 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL
Originally called the Powers Building – Entire floors – Offices & Shops – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
© Vincenzo Aiosa
Holabird & Roche have the distinction of designing two buildings in Chicago that eventually bore the same name, the Champlain… [In 1902] the building was built by a consortium of investors on a piece of property that already had a building standing on it. The architectural firm was so good at what they did that their 13-story tower opened for occupancy in December of 1902, just 8 months after demolition had begun on the old building… In 1938 after the Powers name change, the building underwent a “modernization” which stripped the first two floors of their original facades… By 1988 the School of the Art Institute itself was outgrowing their studio building at the museum and purchased the nearby Champlain for additional class and office space. – Design Slinger
- Champlain Building (1902) Holabird & Roche, architects– Design Slinger
- A Landmark Dispute – Why The Art Institute Supports Preservation-usually – September 05, 1993 By Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune Architecture Critic.
Lyon & Healy – Everything Known In Music – Washburn – Chicago, IL
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
From Hubert Pleijsier’s book, Washburn Prewar Instrument Styles: Guitars, Mandolins, Banjos and Ukuleles 1883-1940:
© Hubert Pleijsier – Google Books
She She Boutique Owner Murdered – Flatbush Avenue
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Brooklyn store owner’s murder officially linked to previous killings.
Rahmatolla Vahidipour, 78, was shot dead with a .22 caliber, the same type of weapon used to kill two other men this summer. Police suspect the same person may have murdered all three men. – NY Daily News
