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WW Grainger Billboard – Canal Street NYC – 1998

Fading Ads of NYC (History Press, 2011) – Special Effects by Snapseed – © Frank H. Jump

Hotel Bonta-Narragansett – UWS – NYC

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

The Hotel Narragansett opened ca. 1902 at this location on Broadway between 93rd and 94th Streets. 1913-14 advertisements in the New York Herald referred to the Hotel as the Bonta-Narragansett (Arthur Knox Bonta, 1861?-1919, proprietor): “Handsomely Furnished Suites of One or More Rooms, with Bath.”  – Walter Grutchfield

Arthur Knox Bonta – 8 AUG 1860 – 25 DEC 1919 – Three Systems

Fall River Line Journal, Volumes 34-35 – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – Google Books

American Almond Products Co. –

Nut Processing Specialists since 1924 © Frank H. Jump

Turn Left – [We] Specialize In… – Astoria Blvd – East Elmhurst, Queens

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Krug’s Bread – Astoria Blvd – Corona, Queens

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Courtesy of Fulton History

Flour Ad – West Philadelphia, PA

Best Bread © Vincenzo Aiosa

Laughing Cow – Appliance Store Palimpsest – Sayyida Zaynab Square, Cairo – Uptown Correspondent, Iman R. Abdulfattah

© Iman R. Abdulfattah

A nice palimpsest for you: La vache qui rit/Laughing Cow trademark is at the top; and an ad for a company that specializes in household appliances, where you can pay in cash or by installments, is at the bottom. – Iman R. Abdulfattah

Pepsi – Abbasiyya, Cairo – Uptown Correspondent, Iman R. Abdulfattah

© Iman R. Abdulfattah

© Iman R. Abdulfattah

BIC Ballpoint Pens & Razors – Cairo, Egypt – Uptown Correspondent, Iman R. Abdulfattah

Corniche al-Nil Street, Maspero, Cairo © Iman R. Abdulfattah

Elsewhere on FAB – Featured Fade – BIC Ballpoint Pens & Razors – Cairo, Egypt – Alexandria D’Onofrio – July 28, 2012

Eastern Farmworkers Association – National Labor Federation – Syracuse, NY

© Vincenzo Aiosa

The organization grew out of the Eastern Farm Workers Association in Suffolk County, New York, founded in 1972 by Gino Perente and others. Perente had worked at the New York office of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee in 1971 or 1972 and, according to Dolores Huerta, “…created a lot of problems for the union, attacking us in the press. Then he went off and formed his own group….NATLFED operates about thirty offices, called entities around the US, with concentrations in California and the Northeast. The Eastern Farm Workers Association (now in Bellport, New York and Syracuse, New York) and California Homemakers Association (in Sacramento, California) were founded in the early seventies, and were followed by Eastern Service Workers Association, Western Service Workers Association, the Commemoration Committee for the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, Western Massachusetts Labor Action in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Western Farm Workers Association in Stockton, California, Yuba City, California, and Hillsboro, Oregon, Friends of Seasonal and Service Workers in Portland, Oregon and Northwest Seasonal Workers Association in Medford, Oregon.”Wikipedia