{"id":7247,"date":"2010-10-26T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=7247"},"modified":"2010-10-26T00:35:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T00:35:13","slug":"h-k-electric-co-astoria-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2010\/10\/26\/h-k-electric-co-astoria-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"H.K Electric Co. &#8211; Astoria, Queens &#8211; Guest Fade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/guests\/sanders-HKsignCU-small.jpg?resize=570%2C428\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"428\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DEfender 5  telephone exchange \u00a9 David Sanders<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/guests\/sanders-HKsign-small.jpg?resize=570%2C428\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"428\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 David Sanders<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px} --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Hi Frank, this may be on your blog someplace already, both your blog and the forgotten NY sites are quite extensive and I could not find this one. It is on the side of a large apartment building in Astoria NY, I think the address is 31-28 31st Street. I have passed this rusty sign many times but never stopped to read it until today. It says &#8220;This building is adequately wired by H.K. Electric Co. More Buildings Rewired In Queens By H. K. Electric Co. Than Any Other Electric Company.&#8221; There is also an old phone number with a DE exchange prefix&#8230;definitely 1960s and before.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dave Sanders, NYC<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey Dave- Thanks again for a wonderful catch! According to the website below, this is the DEfender telephone exchange.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phone.net46.net\/nyc\/latealphnumer.html\" target=\"_blank\">NYC Telephone Exchanges After December 1930<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Frank, this may be on your blog someplace already, both your blog and the forgotten NY sites are quite extensive and I could not find this one. It is on the side of a large apartment building in Astoria NY, I think the address is 31-28 31st Street. I have passed this rusty sign [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,690,1135,1262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astoria","category-guest-contributor","category-old-telephone-exchanges","category-queens"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-1ST","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247","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=7247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}