{"id":19144,"date":"2017-12-30T05:29:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T05:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=19144"},"modified":"2017-12-30T05:29:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T05:29:57","slug":"bickfords-under-the-visitor-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2017\/12\/30\/bickfords-under-the-visitor-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Bickford&#8217;s Under The Visitor Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/019-42nd-street-movie-ctr-sm.gif?resize=580%2C629\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"629\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Fading Ads of NYC (History Press, 2011) \u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<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\/2017\/cooped-up-crop.gif?resize=580%2C1160\" width=\"580\" height=\"1160\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cooped Up? Cropped &#8211; Bickford&#8217;s (April 1997) \u00a9\u00a0Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/019-42nd-street-movie-ctr-crop-bickford.gif?resize=580%2C1298\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"1298\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cooped up? Feeling low? Enjoy A Movie Today. 42nd Street. The World&#8217;s Greatest Movie Center.<\/p>\n<p>And underneath you can see &#8220;Bickford&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Little nifties from the fifties,<br \/>\nInnocent and sweet.<br \/>\nSexy ladies from the eighties,<br \/>\nWho are indiscrete oh!<br \/>\n\u2014Al Dubin, \u201c42nd Street\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Selwyn Office Building was scheduled to be demolished in the spring of 1998. It was being used as a visitors\u2019 center until it suddenly collapsed on December 30, 1997. &#8211; Fading Ads of NYC, 2011<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the storefront before this fading ad is a Bickford&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooped up? Feeling low? Enjoy A Movie Today. 42nd Street. The World&#8217;s Greatest Movie Center. And underneath you can see &#8220;Bickford&#8217;s.&#8221; Little nifties from the fifties, Innocent and sweet. Sexy ladies from the eighties, Who are indiscrete oh! \u2014Al Dubin, \u201c42nd Street\u201d The former Selwyn Office Building was scheduled to be demolished in the spring [&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":[643],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghost-signs-ghost-ads-other-phantoms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-4YM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144","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=19144"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19152,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions\/19152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}