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National Cold Storage – Brooklyn Bridge Park – Lawns Closed
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Harvey Shapiro 1966, Wesleyan Poetry
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Can’t help feeling they’ve torn down the wrong building. The Watchtower Building is a Brooklyn waterfront eyesore.
Other postings:
- Bluejake – The National Cold Storage
- DUMBO-NYC
- View from a Temporary Park – National Cold Storage Co & Waterfalls – Brooklyn Bridge Park – Fading Ad Blog – August 29, 2008
- National Cold Storage – 66 Furman Street – Fading Ad Blog – March 17, 2008
- Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy – Pier 1
Navel Lint Industry Booming Across Southern States – Bankrolls Teabagger Movement
Courtesy of Flickr via Wikipedia
According to The National Cotton Council of America, the U.S. cotton industry has suffered severe economic setbacks from lowered prices arising from increased global production of the natural fiber. Climate change and the unpredictable inclement weather nationwide has also affected the wildly vacillating production of pounds of cotton per acre, making for unstable pricing per bale from year to year. Additionally, the removal of quotas has created a highly competitive global market. Sustainability must also be considered when it takes over 700 gallons of water to produce one cotton T-shirt alone. Perhaps we are witnessing the unravelling of a historically contentious and ecologically unsound crop.
Ironically, we are also witnessing the rise of a grassroots cottage industry that seems to be booming where the cotton industry first took foothold in the U.S. during the early days of slavery – navel lint-wear. Fueled by rising unemployment and discontent with the current administration in the White House, white Southerners are gathering their rosebuds and collecting their belly button lint for a resilient recycled thread. The accumulation of the fluffy fibers from the navels of couch potatoes from Maryland to Texas are being collected and reworked into a cost-effective and ecologically friendly cloth. Since dead skin cells or collagen are also included in the mix of belly button lint, a curiously stronger thread – not unlike a 50-50 polyester thread – is being produced for pennies a bale. Some reports claim that highly hirsute southern males are able to produce over 6 mg of lint hourly. Gossypium aside, this booming industry may be providing the funds that bank-roll the Teabagger Movement nationwide. Contemplate that!
Put Some Polka Dots On It - blogspot
New technologies for extracting navel lint also increases capital for the booming industry.
Gossypium hirsutum – Wikipedia
Hukon Mfg – Cincinnati, OH – visualingual
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Visualingual – news+inspiration from a design studio in Cincinnati – was just featured at Etsy [your place to buy and sell] and mentioned the Fading Ad Blog as one of their favorite sites. Here is a taste of what’s on the tip of Visualingual’s tongue. Thanks for the mention!
Player's Navy Cut – East Houston Street, NYC
© Vincenzo Aiosa
Filter Cigarettes © Vincenzo Aiosa
Player's Navy Cut cigarette package - Flickr
- John Player & Sons – Wikipedia
Featured Synagogue – Adath Jeshurun of Jassy – 58 Rivington Street – Happy Pesach!
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© Vincenzo Aiosa
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© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
- Tom Fletcher’s New York Architecture – First Warsaw Congregation First Warsaw Congregation (Former Congregation Adath Jeshurun)
- Fading Into History – Allen Salkin – Wired New York Forum – October 2002
77 WABC – Harlem, NYC — Cousin Brucie & Dan Ingram – Long Island Boys – The 1965 & 1977 Blackouts – Campbell Soup – Alison Steele, The Nightbird
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- WABC 77AM – Wikipedia
Bruce Morrow (born Bruce Meyerowitz on October 13, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American radio personality, known to many New York metropolitan area listeners as Cousin Brucie. – Wikipedia
Daniel Trombley “Dan” Ingram (born September 7, 1934 in Oceanside, New York) is an American Top 40 radio disc jockey with a forty-year career on radio stations such as WABC and WCBS-FM in New York. – Wikipedia
November 9, 1965 Northeastern Seaboard Blackout – Wikipedia
Area affected by the 1965 Northeast Blackout – Wikipedia (click for larger image)
It’s funny where my searches will take me when I put together a blog posting. In researching WABC’s theme song on YouTube, I found two great clips (both recently deleted) of two of my favorite DJs of my youth Bruce Morrow and Dan Ingram. The one with Ingram featured the moment the 1965 Blackout began in NYC. I remember I was watching I Love Lucy on our two-toned green Zenith black and white TV when the lights began to flicker.
1957 RCA two-toned green Portable TV
It was late autumn and the sun was already going down. My mom Willy was on the phone with her friend Barbara who lived a few doors down in our Laurelton Queens garden apartment. Then the TV tube gave one last gasp and the screen shrank into a glowing dot as the lights went out. Before I knew it, Barbara and her three kids – Dawn (my first girlfriend) – and her fraternal twin brothers David and Lester, crying from down the block – were in our apartment. I was hungry. I found a flashlight and got some candles and our camping stove. I lit some candles and started to make some Campbell’s Tomato Soup. I was five years old. I have since always done well in emergencies.
Campbell Soup Co. envelope – Brass Dragon
Campbell Soup postage meter slogan – Brass Dragon
Campbell Soup Company envelope – Brass Dragon
After the 1960s, I became a fan of the WNEW DJs since I was by the early 70’s an AOR (Album Oriented Rock) listener and we had moved to Howard Beach to escape the oppressive “bussing” experiment implemented to racially integrate NYC schools. Jonathan Schwartz, Vince Scelsa & Alison Steele were my favs. I remember calling Alison Steele regularly to request Yessongs. She got to know my voice after a while. “Hey Frank,” The Nightbird would say with her breathy, smoky voice – “Wanna here something from Yes?” “And here is Heart of the Sunrise for Frankie in Howard Beach.” I was listening to Alison Steele during the 1977 Blackout. She had just announced that Yes’ Going for the One album was going on sale with an early NY release when the lights went out.
Going For The One – Yes – 1977
It was the day before Bastille Day, hot and sticky. I worked a 48 hour shift at JFK that day and the following day I drove to Sam Goody in Green Acres to buy the album. I drove there in record time on South Conduit without any traffic lights. I miss you Nightbird.
Alison Steele – The Nightbird – 1937-1995
Alison Steele (born Ceil Loman on January 26, 1937; died September 27, 1995) was a pioneering American disc jockey in Manhattan at what would become the archetypal progressive rock radio station in the United States, WNEW-FM. She was commonly known as “The Nightbird“. She also became a writer, television producer, correspondent, and an entrepreneur. – Wikipedia
