{"id":3239,"date":"2009-02-09T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2009-02-09T00:00:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T00:00:52","slug":"feature-fade-gowns-wraps-lexington-avenue-valerie-landriscina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2009\/02\/09\/feature-fade-gowns-wraps-lexington-avenue-valerie-landriscina\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Fade &#8211; Gowns &amp; Wraps &#8211; Lexington Avenue &#8211; Valerie Landriscina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/lexington_gowns_wraps.jpg?resize=500%2C667\" alt=\"\u00a9 Valerie Landriscina\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Valerie Landriscina<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/franks_river_gowns_wraps.jpg?resize=500%2C1000\" alt=\"Altered in Photoshop\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Altered in Photoshop<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/lexington-avenue01.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\u00a9 Valerie Landriscina\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lexington &amp; 65th Street \u00a9 Valerie Landriscina<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/lexington-avenue02.jpg?resize=500%2C318\" alt=\"Google Maps\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Maps<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#888888;\"><em>Hi Frank-<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><em>Saw your blog recently for the first time and took this picture on Friday.\u00a0 It may not qualify as a good picture because of the angle. Maybe someone else can visit it.\u00a0 I also attached a comparative view of pre-demolition. I can&#8217;t imagine how old the sign is.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><em>Best,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><em>-Valerie Landriscina<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Dear Valerie-<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The only way to tell the age of this ad is from finding out when the building that was demolished was originally built &#8211; first obscuring this image. My guess would be 1890-1900. The images are great. Would like to take a trip uptown and get some shots before it gets covered again. Thanks so much and glad you enjoy the blog. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Frank<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Valerie Landriscina is a 26-year old graduate student studying architecture at Pratt Institute.\u00a0 A Brooklyn native, Landriscina currently works at Rand Engineering in Chelsea.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Frank- Saw your blog recently for the first time and took this picture on Friday.\u00a0 It may not qualify as a good picture because of the angle. Maybe someone else can visit it.\u00a0 I also attached a comparative view of pre-demolition. I can&#8217;t imagine how old the sign is. Best, -Valerie Landriscina Dear Valerie- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[532,666,888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-fade","category-gowns-wraps","category-lexington-avenue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-Qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","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=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}