Frank Jump @ Fading Ads of NYC on WFUV’s Cityscape | 90.7 with George Bodarky – Saturday, February 18th @ 7:30AM

Feb 14th, 2012

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7:30 AM on Cityscape with George Bodarky

New York City’s saturated with advertisements. They’re on buses, in the subways, atop taxis, and along highways. But, it’s not the newest Calvin Klein ad that catches the attention of acclaimed photographer and urban documentarian Frank Jump. He likes to document so-called ghost signs in the city. These ads from a bygone era are visible, but often overlooked — and for Jump, they’re also a metaphor for his own long survival with HIV. Several of Jump’s photographs are included in a new book called Fading Ads of New York City (History Press). Jump is our guest on this week’s Cityscape.

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Featured Fade – Lindsay Laboratories – Nevins & Schermerhorn Streets – Downtown Brooklyn – Bennett Cohen

Feb 13th, 2012

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Elsewhere on the Internet:

More old ads that are fading fast – Ephemeral NY – March 4, 2009

Posted in: Chemists, Downtown Brooklyn, Featured Fade, Laboratories.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-12

Feb 12th, 2012

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Featured Fades – Lipton’s – A Place to Shop for Women & Children & Bloomfield’s Best Hatter & Haberdasher – Fischer’s Men’s Shop at the Centre – Bloomfield, NJ – James Curran, 2010

Feb 12th, 2012

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Bloomfield, NJ 2010 © James Curran

BLOOMFIELD — A rare glimpse of Depression-era Bloomfield is on display just steps away from the town center, where two old-time advertisements painted on the brick side of a Washington Street building have been unveiled after being covered up since the 1930s.

Now the advertisements, and the wall they’re painted on at the corner of the corner of Washington Street and Lackawanna Place across from the train station, are slated to be razed too, as part of the town’s redevelopment plan.

The ads for Lipton’s department store and Fischer’s, a men’s clothing and hat shop, are relics of a bygone era in Bloomfield and evoke a certain nostalgia among some of the town’s older residents, said Jean Kuras, president of the Bloomfield Historical Society. – Aliza Appelbaum – The Star-Ledger

Lipton’s – A Place to Shop for Women & Children

13 Broad Street at the Centre © James Curran

Courtesy of Bloomfield History dot org

Bloomfield’s Best Hatter & Haberdasher – Fischer’s Men’s Shop at the Centre

Stetson Hats - Manhattan Shirts © James Curran

Courtesy of Bloomfield History dot org

Elsewhere on the Internet:

John Lee’s Photostream – Flickr
Bloomfield History dot org
Bloomfield redevelopment reveals glimpse of Depression-era town – Sunday, November 07, 2010 – The Star-Ledger

Posted in: Bloomfield NJ, Children's Clothing, Featured Fade, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Haberdashery, Men's Apparel, Millinery, Women's Apparel.

Brighton Beach Garage Ad – Neptune Avenue – Brooklyn

Feb 11th, 2012

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Spare Times for Feb. 10-16 By THOMAS GAFFNEY – NYTIMES – Frank Jump @ Brooklyn Historical Society – February 15th

Feb 10th, 2012

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Around Town
Published: February 9, 2012

A sortable calendar of noteworthy cultural events in the New York region, selected by Times critics.

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Brooklyn Historical Society: ‘Fading Ads of Brooklyn’ (Wednesday, February 15) Vintage advertisements that were put on brick walls around the city decades ago are still in plain sight, and some have survived for almost a century. The photographer Frank Jump will discuss the phenomenon of the fading ads and his endeavor to document them. At 7 p.m., 128 Pierrepont Street, near Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights, (718) 222-4111, brooklynhistory.org; $10, or $8 for members.

From the book Fading Ads of NYC - History Press © Frank H. Jump

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Featured Fade – Mail Pouch Tobacco – Beacon, NY – David Silver

Feb 10th, 2012

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This is on East Main Street, just beyond the railroad crossing, and across Fishkill Creek. – David Silver

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Save The Vitagraph Smokestack! – Midwood, Brooklyn

Feb 9th, 2012

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I first heard about the Vitagraph smokestack from Kevin Walsh in the late 90s. For some reason I though it was only visible from the subway and I never got around to photographing it. With prodding from a new NY history friend (TYVI), I decided to go check out the smokestack for myself and I’m so glad I did. From the looks of the top of the stack, it is about to crumble. There are missing bricks near the top. Underneath, there is a parking lot for a religious high school. I wouldn’t park under this crumbling relic.

If there was a case for the urgent need for historic preservation here in Brooklyn, this is the smoking gun. This remnant of the nascent motion picture industry before it moved out West is worth preserving. What do you think?

Midwood Blog

Other Vitagraph Co. Smokestack documentation:

The film business’s Brooklyn birth – Midwood Blog
Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn – Avenue M – Movie Capital of the World? – Subway dot com.ru
Midwood, Brooklyn – Wikipedia
Vitagraph Studios – Wikipedia
Vitagraph Smokestack – Forgotten-NY