{"id":19115,"date":"2017-12-16T23:51:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T23:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=19115"},"modified":"2017-12-16T23:51:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T23:51:17","slug":"featured-fade-fletchers-castoria-ad-revealing-itself-park-slope-brooklyn-one-more-folded-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2017\/12\/16\/featured-fade-fletchers-castoria-ad-revealing-itself-park-slope-brooklyn-one-more-folded-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Fade &#8211; Fletcher&#8217;s Castoria Ad Revealing Itself &#8211; Park Slope, Brooklyn &#8211; One More Folded Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/guests\/kate-castoria-slope-cropped.jpg?resize=580%2C580\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 One More Folded Sunset dot com<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hi Frank,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You&#8217;ve probably seen this one. It&#8217;s been slowly revealing itself over the last several years, but it&#8217;s still hard to read. Pretty sure it&#8217;s ASTORIA at the bottom, so maybe it&#8217;s for the Astoria Savings Bank (there used to be one nearby on Fifth Avenue)? And you can see &#8220;&#8230; you have bought&#8221; at the top. There&#8217;s also some writing farther along the building but it&#8217;s impossible to decipher. No help from the 80&#8217;s tax photos &#8211; they only show the front of the building.This is at 12th Street &amp; Sixth Avenue in Park Slope.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great find! It&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?s=castoria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fletcher&#8217;s Castoria ad<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2008\/02\/18\/1899-film-of-train-crossing-over-brooklyn-bridge-fletchers-castoria-ad-clearly-seen-library-of-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brooklyn Bridge in 1899<\/a>, this ad is clearly visible. Thanks for sharing this with FAB!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Frank, You&#8217;ve probably seen this one. It&#8217;s been slowly revealing itself over the last several years, but it&#8217;s still hard to read. Pretty sure it&#8217;s ASTORIA at the bottom, so maybe it&#8217;s for the Astoria Savings Bank (there used to be one nearby on Fifth Avenue)? And you can see &#8220;&#8230; you have bought&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[532,562,1158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-fade","category-fletchers-castoria","category-park-slope-brooklyn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-4Yj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19115","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19117,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19115\/revisions\/19117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}