{"id":12217,"date":"2012-11-11T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=12217"},"modified":"2012-11-11T06:02:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T06:02:52","slug":"a-one-year-anniversary-of-fading-ads-of-new-york-city-history-press-2011-by-frank-jump-the-first-10000-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2012\/11\/11\/a-one-year-anniversary-of-fading-ads-of-new-york-city-history-press-2011-by-frank-jump-the-first-10000-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A One-Year Anniversary of Fading Ads of New York City (History Press, 2011) by Frank Jump – The First 10,000 Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You could blame Robert Moses, which seems to be the fashion, or you could say it\u2019s just the American way, that unique form of active amnesia we seem to have that means forgetting vast swaths of our history, and either painting over or demolishing the rest; either way, huge amounts of our urban landscape have been \u201cmade new\u201d and made over, with much history \u2014 architectural and cultural \u2014 being lost along the way. We can see those faded fingerprints around us still, sometimes in lingering architectural details on the buildings that have survived one renewal or gentrification too many, and other times in the faded, hand-painted signs that cling stubbornly to those same buildings.<\/em><\/p>\n

That brings\u00a0us to\u00a0Fading Ads of New York City, written by Frank Jump, the curator of the long-running Fading Ad website.\u00a0I\u2019ve lost track of how many websites have spawned books in the last few years, and how many of those books I\u2019ve passed up because I couldn\u2019t see myself reading them more than once, regardless of how many times the website in question made me laugh,\u00a0made me think, or gave me goosebumps. With that said, I was very happy to come across\u00a0this book, which takes some of Jump\u2019s best shots and writing, and puts\u00a0the lot of it\u00a0between covers. – Read more @\u00a0<\/em>The First 10000 Reviews \u00a0Fading Ads of New York City by Frank Jump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You could blame Robert Moses, which seems to be the fashion, or you could say it\u2019s just the American way, that unique form of active amnesia we seem to have that means forgetting vast swaths of our history, and either painting over or demolishing the rest; either way, huge amounts of our urban landscape have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2033,643],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fading-ads-of-nyc-the-book","category-ghost-signs-ghost-ads-other-phantoms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-3b3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}