{"id":17521,"date":"2015-08-12T03:25:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T03:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=17521"},"modified":"2015-08-12T03:25:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T03:25:29","slug":"stofhelbergs-havana-seconds-cigars-cincinnati-oh-today-sixteen-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2015\/08\/12\/stofhelbergs-havana-seconds-cigars-cincinnati-oh-today-sixteen-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Stofhelberg&#8217;s Havana Seconds- Cigars &#8211; Cincinnati, OH &#8211; Today &#038; Sixteen Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/cincinnati\/cincinnati-oh-havana-seconds.jpg?resize=580%2C867\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"867\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over-The-Rhine, Cincinnati &#8211; August 9, 2015 \u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I returned to Cincinnati after sixteen years on our cross-country trip we took this summer. Again, I visited my friend and mentor Tod Swormstedt, founder of the <em>American Sign Museum.<\/em> In 1999, the museum was just an idea Tod had and today it is a fully realized dream. I searched for this sign, hoping it was still untouched and it was.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati&#8217;s Over-The-Rhine neighbor surely has changed as it has morphed from a quasi-abandoned and under-served ghetto into a trendy, upscale dining and drinking strip surrounded by squalor. On our trip across this great nation, the stark differences between the &#8220;haves &amp; have-nots&#8221; has never been more evident. Within several blocks of profitable tourist trade are communities,\u00a0both\u00a0African-American and Euro-American poor living side by side in utter poverty, many of whom have been displaced by gentrification. The tension was palpable.<\/p>\n<p>Dominating this scenario are the anachronistic remnants of a former German immigrant commercial district, touting products that were luxury items in their day.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/0321.jpg?resize=380%2C570\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"570\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">June 1999 \u00a9\u00a0Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/032.jpg?resize=380%2C570\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"570\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">June 1999 \u00a9\u00a0Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/cincinnati\/havana-seconds.jpg?resize=580%2C279\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"279\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Search<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/cincinnati\/simon-havana-seconds.jpg?resize=580%2C363\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"363\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">History Museum Canada<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>From what I can read it looks like: &#8220;Stofhelberg&#8217;s Havana Seconds- Cigars&#8221; Possibly Henry Straus was the distributor.<\/em> &#8211; Fading Ad Campaign, June 1999<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I returned to Cincinnati after sixteen years on our cross-country trip we took this summer. 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