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Abacus Federal Savings Bank – Chinatown, NYC

© Frank H. Jump

Abacus Federal Savings Bank (國寶銀行) is a Chinese American bank in the United States founded in December, 1984 by a group of business leaders from the Chinese community in New York City. The founders’ original purpose was to provide banking services to immigrants and local residents of lower Manhattan. As the Chinese immigrant population grew in the 1980s and 1990s, the Bank retained its original mission, but expanded its size and scope. It now has 6 branches covering New York , New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Besides the traditional banking services, it also offers insurance and securities through its subsidiaries. Abacus is federally chartered. Its mortgage and other services extend to all states in the United States. – Wikipedia

Fish in the Gutter – Chinatown, NYC

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Northeastern National Bank Overpass Has Been Painted Black – William Scranton former Governor of PA

April 2011 © Frank H. Jump

William Warren Scranton was Governor of PA from 1963 – 1967. Although Scranton was originally from Madison, Connecticut, it was by chance he was born there at his family’s vacation home.  Much of  Scranton’s political and business careers centered in  Scranton, Pennsylvania for which his ancestors were the founders and patriarchs. Scranton was president of Northeastern National Bank & Trust Company as well as serving on the boards of directors of  high profile American corporations such as A&P, IBM, The New York Times, Pan American Airways, and the H.J. Heinz Company.Scranton also had affiliation with the Trilateral Commission and was asked to chair the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest after the Kent State shootings in 1970.¹

Paper Makers Supplies – Grand Street – Soho, NYC

© Frank H. Jump

 

© Frank H. Jump

Sears, Roebuck & Co – Featured Fade – Madrid, NM – Jessie J. Hernandez

© Jessie J. Hernandez

© Jessie J. Hernandez

© Jessie J. Hernandez

© Jessie J. Hernandez

© Jessie J. Hernandez

© Jessie J. Hernandez

© Jessie J. Hernandez

Gold Medal Flour – Featured Fade – Oneonta, NY – Ruth Kirsch Silva

© Ruth Kirsch Silva

Wm. & Margaret Stage Launch “The Painted Ad Blog.”

BUY THE BOOK! © Wm. Stage

Wm. Stage, author of Ghost Signs: Brick Wall Signs in America [1989], has launched his blog The Painted Ad with his daughter Margaret. I met Mr. Stage in St. Louis back in 1999 while crossing the U.S. on a photo-expedition. Over the years we have maintained correspondence and he was kind enough to write an introduction to my upcoming book The Fading Ads of NYC (History Press) 2011. Check out Wm & Margaret’s blog and buy the book!

Flatbush Cat Burglar Survives the Storm Under a Hydrangea

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Wall of Lobster – Chinatown, NYC

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

A tangle of claws // Stone pinchers rubberband shut // A death pile waiting #haiku

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