April 2005 © Gaia Son
September, 2014:
Sunbeam – Texas Best Bread – Flowers Baking Co – El Paso, TX – Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
Little Miss Sunbeam and the Sunbeam brand are owned by Quality Bakers of America, a baking cooperative. Flowers is one of 10 baking companies in the U.S. that franchises the right to market baked foods under the Sunbeam brand. Flowers and Sunbeam have been partners since 1944! – Flowers Foods Website
Another Great J. Michaels Furniture Store Revisited – Downtown Brooklyn – Featured Fade – Vlad Iorsh
Gaia Son in the Ghardaïa Province- Algeria, March 2007
El Goléa – oasis town and commune – capital of El Ménia District, in Ghardaïa Province, Algeria. © Gaia Son
This summer I spent a week with my friends Gaia Son (FAB’s Lowlands Correspondent) and her husband Bob Kovel (artiste extraordinaire) in Amersfoort, NL. One night Gaia showed me some of her photographs and I insisted on her curating some virtual exhibitions for the Fading Ad Blog. This first slideshow is of Son’s trip through the Ghardaïa Province in Algeria- located in The M’Zab Valley (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) in the Sahara Desert and ending in Outoul in the south of Algeria.
Gaia Son with her Touareg Berber guides – photo by Louis Cador
Featured Fade: Chew Virgin Leaf Tobacco Ad – Blood Tonic Pentimento – Fulton Street – Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn – Vlad Iorsh
© Vlad Iorsh
Virgin Leaf tobacco was a trademarked chewing tobacco marketed by McAlpin & Co. Since I have never seen their past ads as claiming to be “for the blood,” I am assuming this is a pentimento – two or more ads superimposed upon one another – of the Virgin Leaf ad with a blood tonic. Would love to climb that fence and get a straight on shot of this right after it rains.
