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Mobil Oils – For Correct Automobile… Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn

Mobil Oils, Flatbush Avenue - Brooklyn
© Frank H. Jump

Early Mobil Oils ad campaign.

Mobil Oils - Flatbush Avenue & Mobil Gas by Chris Adams, Lonely Pictures
© Chris Adams, Lonely Pictures

Ice Cream Truck – Avenue K, Brooklyn

AJ's Ice Cream Truck, Avenue K - Brooklyn
© Frank H. Jump

Dot Earth – Nine Billion People. One Planet – NY Times Blog

Dot Earth. Climate Change and Sustainability

Dot Earth – Climate Change & Sustainability – The melting Arctic icecap, as seen from a NASA satellite in September 2007. (AFP/Getty Images)Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. — Carl Sagan, “Pale Blue Dot” speech, 1996

John Kelly Channels Joni in Provincetown – Boston Globe

John Kelly Channels Joni

Wes Carr Finds the Ghosts of Modesto CA – Pepsi-Cola

Modesto CA - Wes Carr - Pepsi-Cola

Wes Carr Watches Fort Worth Fading – Owl Cigars, Coffee, Tea

Ft Worth Fading Ads, Wes Carr

Bob Kisken @ Railway Express Agency – Green Bay, WI

Railway Express Agency, Bob Kisken

Railway Express Agency, Bob Kisken
© Bob Kisken

These are on the old RR station in Green Bay. It is now a brew pub. Good food. One has been repainted- one hasn’t. Cheers, Bob

Coghlin's Furniture Inc. – Worcester, MA

Coghlin's Furniture - Worcester, MA
© Frank H. Jump

Main Street

William Donovan @ visualAIDS blog

Wiliam Donovan
© William Donovan

William Donovan, an amazing visual artist & teacher whose work we had exhibited at our Fading AIDS Gallery in its heyday, is also a member of the visualAIDS archive. Here is a bio from this site:

William Donovan is a visual artist who lives and works in New York. He utilizes life experiences as well as current social and political issues to create art. Donovan holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in Fine Arts, as well as an AAS in Fashion Illustration from the Fashion Institute of Technology, where he currently teaches. He has studied at The Arts Students League, The Philadelphia Institute of the Arts and the Parsons School of Art.

Macey Sign Company – Worcester, MA

Macey Sign Company established 1910
© Frank H. Jump

After an Internet search, I found a phone number and address for Macey Sign Co. (38 Mason Street, Worcester, MA 01610), a family run business since 1910. The Cotter’s Leather Goods sign was one of the first they were commissioned to paint according to the owner.