Vintage Coca-Cola ad
© Nick Hirshon
January 1928 - Vintage Coca-Cola calendar ad
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Featured Fade – Hit Parade Cigarettes – 7-Up – Koreatown, NYC – M.R. Easton
Old ads uncovered by work on hotel facade, West 32nd Street © M.R. Easton - CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
I thought you might be interested in these small ads for 7-UP and Hit Parade cigarettes uncovered by ongoing work on the La Quinta Hotel facade in Koreatown (17 W. 32nd street). Not too faded (but damaged a bit). A quick bit of web research shows that in 1957 the Hit Parade changed sponsors from Lucky Strike to a brand named for the show. I’m not sure how long it lasted, but most ads and other references on-line are for 1957 and 1958 only. The La Quinta used to be the Aberdeen Hotel, one of the first to allow unaccompanied women to stay there on the same terms as men. – M.R. Easton
Sonn Bros. Company Whiskies – Tribeca, NYC
© Frank H. Jump
This advertisement for the Sonn Brothers, Import & Export Co. appeared in the journal, Commercial America, vol. 19, Philadelphia, July, 1922, p. 22. The ad says “Founded 1873.” Actually, the first entry I found for Sonn Brothers in New York city directories was an 1875 entry reading, “Sonn Brothers, fish, 119 Warren.” The brothers were Henry Sonn and Hyman Sonn, both living at 547 2nd St. Shortly after this, in Goulding’s New York City Directory, 1876-77, the Sonn brothers were grocers, located at 181 Reade St., and then in Trow, 1878, they were grocers located at 83 North Moore St. – Walter Grutchfield (read more about this at his website)
Featured Fade – Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco – Port Townsend – Olympic Peninsula, WA – Gloria Loew
© Gloria Loew
I heard you on the Leonard Lopate show, and thought you might enjoy seeing this picture I took on vacation in June 2011 on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. Like you, I find these ads beautiful and interesting.
Best of luck with your work.
Gloria Loew
Best of luck to you and your family Gloria in the New Year!
On Flickr:
Altered in Photoshop by Frank H. Jump © Gloria Loew
Altered in Photoshop by Frank H. Jump © Gloria Loew
Lewis’ Emporium & Hires Root Beer ad
Hires is Good - Good Taste - Altered in Photoshop by Frank H. Jump © Gloria Loew
Altered in Photoshop by Frank H. Jump © Gloria Loew
Electric Ferry Company, Inc. – Weehawken Exit of Lincoln Tunnel – Weehawken, NJ
Weehawken History dot org - CLICK FOR PDF
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
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Weehawken now has some forty industries. From the heart of New York City there is fast and easy transportation to Weehawken. The West Shore ferries connect with the upper and lower sections of New York City, the Electric Ferries with the 23rd Street section and the Lincoln Tunnel affords a four-minute crossing to Weehawken from New York, via rapid interstate bus service. The West Shore Railroad has passenger and freight service to Weehawken and the Erie R.R. has a terminal in the southern section of the Township. – John G Meister, Mayor of Weehawken (1941)
The original West 23rd Street – Weehawken route came to an unusual end in July 1943, seventeen years after its opening. By this time, the Port of New York Authority had opened the first tube of the Lincoln Tunnel, the Hudson River’s third vehicular crossing out of New York City, and while Electric Ferries had been able to hold its market despite the earlier opening of the George Washington Bridge, the tunnel proved a bit too much... Over & back: the history of ferryboats in New York Harbor – Brian J. Cudahy
Other resources:
- Over & back: the history of ferryboats in New York Harbor – Brian J. Cudahy – Google Books
- The Hudson through the years – Arthur G. Adams – Google Books
