© Jaqui O’Shaughnessy
© Ebay
© Google Books
© Google Books
© Google Books
Bickford’s Under The Visitor Center
From Fading Ads of NYC (History Press, 2011) © Frank H. Jump
Cooped Up? Cropped – Bickford’s (April 1997) © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Cooped up? Feeling low? Enjoy A Movie Today. 42nd Street. The World’s Greatest Movie Center.
And underneath you can see “Bickford’s.”
Little nifties from the fifties,
Innocent and sweet.
Sexy ladies from the eighties,
Who are indiscrete oh!
—Al Dubin, “42nd Street”The former Selwyn Office Building was scheduled to be demolished in the spring of 1998. It was being used as a visitors’ center until it suddenly collapsed on December 30, 1997. – Fading Ads of NYC, 2011
On the storefront before this fading ad is a Bickford’s sign. The shot of this fading ad was taken just a few months before the building (which served as the Times Square Visitors Center) collapsed from a water leak that December.
Day & Meyer Murray & Young Corp Revisited – A Decade Ago
from Day & Meyer Murray & Young Corp website
© Frank H. Jump
Day & Meyer Murray & Young Corp., 1166 2nd Ave. at 61st St. (1987) © Walter Grutchfield
REPOSTED FROM DEC 5, 2007
Fading Ad Campaign: The Chrome Age – and the future of the Fading Ad Blog
prototype book cover prior to 2011 History Press publication © Frank H. Jump
This was the first design I worked on before getting the publishing deal with the History Press, now bought by Arcadia Press. For the first nine years of the Fading Ad Blog, I posted obsessively daily and enjoyed a large following of over 500 visitors a day. The past year has been a rough one personally and I have posted more sporadically. I am also contemplating the future of blogging in general.
As this year draws to an end, I am self-reflective and open to suggestions from my audience and collaborators. The social media explosion has certainly impacted blogging and I have enjoyed my forays into Instagram and Twitter. But where do we go from here in an era of uncertainty where the Internet is about to undergo an overhaul by service providers with the end of Net Neutrality. So please feel free to express your opinions about the future of blogging, this blog and how you would like to see this project transform in the coming year. Thank you for all of your support and contributions from all of my guest featured contributors and followers. Happy New Year and keep looking up!
Sincerely yours,
Frank H. Jump
Featured Fade – Fletcher’s Castoria Ad Revealing Itself – Park Slope, Brooklyn – One More Folded Sunset
© One More Folded Sunset dot com
Hi Frank,
You’ve probably seen this one. It’s been slowly revealing itself over the last several years, but it’s still hard to read. Pretty sure it’s ASTORIA at the bottom, so maybe it’s for the Astoria Savings Bank (there used to be one nearby on Fifth Avenue)? And you can see “… you have bought” at the top. There’s also some writing farther along the building but it’s impossible to decipher. No help from the 80’s tax photos – they only show the front of the building.This is at 12th Street & Sixth Avenue in Park Slope.
Great find! It’s a Fletcher’s Castoria ad revealing itself, probably the most prolific ad in the NYC area. These ads were everywhere. In a Thomas Edison film of a subway train trip over the Brooklyn Bridge in 1899, this ad is clearly visible. Thanks for sharing this with FAB!
