© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Paraco Gas & Oil © Frank H. Jump
April, 2010:
Dempsey's Liquor Store – Mail Pouch Tobacco – Waterloo, NY – Featured Fade
© Isaac Hattem
Between Seneca & Cayuga Lakes in the Finger Lake region of New York State is the town of Waterloo, named after the Belgian town where Napoleon didn’t have such a good day in 1815. My buddy Isaac, who I met in Yellowstone last summer, was traveling from Ithaca to Buffalo and shot this for me, almost incredulously.
Elsewhere on the Internet:
Annoying Place (in Dutch) – Verveelen Place, Bronx
© Frank H. Jump
The verb to annoy is verveelen in Dutch (pronounced “fer-fail`-en”). When passing the Robert’s Books & Stationery / Kornblau-Goldblum Supply Co signs on the Major Deegan Expressway, I never thought I’d be rediscovering another odd Dutch street name. Brooklyn has its Varkens Hoek (Hog’s Corner) and Paerdegats (Horse’s Hole) street names and the Bronx has its Annoying Place. But in all reality, this street probably got its name from a Dutchman with the surname, ver Veelen. Read the genealogical study of this family name by John Blythe Dobson for the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record – April, 2002.
Kellobe Machine Co. – Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
Jamaica Avenue & New Jersey Avenue near the entrance to the Jackie Robinson © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
I’ve shot this sign over the past twelve years and never took a long exposure at night.
Elsewhere on the Internet:
- Forgotten-NY – Preserve (Photos by Gary Fonville) – Jamaica Avenue
