© Gaia Son
Barbe Leturgez – Sieges , Tentures, Ameublement – Seats, Curtains & Furniture – Arras, FR – Gaia Son
Meet the ghost-sign hunters | Cities | The Guardian | Melbourne – Nick Gadd
The Omega Oil sign in New York. Often these adverts are hidden for decades by buildings, billboards or trees – reappearing briefly during a construction project, before they are destroyed forever. Photograph: Frank Jump
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Hygrade’s All Beef Hot Dogs – Sixth Avenue – Greenwich Village, NYC – Happy Halloween
© Frank H. Jump
I remember when the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade was a fun little community event full of drag queens and local school children and their families. After 1984, it seemed to get out of control. Haven’t been to it in years. Tell me, how are they lately. Is it safe for a local drag performer?
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V.H. Lang Trophies Co. Inc. – Rochester, NY
222 South Avenue © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Across the street from the Capron Lofts is the old V.H. Lang Trophies building. The trophy shop closed its doors last month (May) as the owners sought retirement, and it has been rumored that the building was recently sold to an unknown investor. Can you imagine lofts or retail space in this tired-looking historic structure? Will you be the change maker in this city to make that happen? – Signs of life: the next “HOT” Neighborhood? URBAN PERSPECTIVE || therochesteriat.com/signs-of-life/ JUNE 20, 2014 BY JASON SCHWINGLE
Catholic Courier, 1992
Brasserie Wielemans-Ceuppens – Brouwerij Wielemans Ceuppens – Brewery – Brussel, BE – Lowlands Correspondent, Gaia Son
Former brewery is now the Contemporary Art Center in Brussels © Gaia Son
Spread over a century, from 1880 to 1980, the history of Wielemans-Ceuppens…merges with that of the beer industry in Belgium: exponential growth, constant adaptation to modern technology and demand market purchase of competing breweries followed by absorption by a larger, decline and closure. In 1978 the brewery was taken over by Stella Artois. The business was phased out from 1980 and on September 29, 1988 the last Wieleman Beer was brewed. The Centre was opened in 2007 in the old [Deco] building for contemporary art, after restoration and renovation works were started in 2005. – Wikipedia
Prosper Wielemans opened the Café Métropole to sell his beer. Prosper then decided to build a hotel: the Hotel Métropole, designed by Alban Chambon. © Wikipedia Commons
