March, 2015:

Mussolini in Monta – Echoes of Fascism in Italia – Willemieke Molenaar

Mar 23rd, 2015

Monta – Via Maccalle

Hi Frankele,

My friend Willemieke Molenaar showed me these photos she took last summer while on vacation in Piemonte. They were taken in Monta, South East of Torino….The fading ad is a portrait of Benito himself, still there from WW-II times. If you look carefully you can see bullet holes in the wall. Supposedly the portrait is regularly being shot at, I guess to show how people feel about it. Curious what you think about it!

Lfs,

Gaia [Son, Lowlands Correspondent]

Lingotto, Torino – Via Nizza

Mussolini Quote in Torino Italy - © Frank H. Jump

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La Patria non si nega ma si conquista – Mussolini A. XIV
Don’t deny your country but conquer it (or conquer for it)

First Trans-Pacific Airmail Flight of Pan Am’s China Clipper – 80th Anniversary

Mar 22nd, 2015

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Today my Dad and I had lunch for my birthday and he gave me a birthday bag of goodies. Here are two of the items. He used to work for Pan Am so he still has some memorabilia laying around.

The China Clipper (NC14716) was the first of three Martin M-130 four-engine flying boats built for Pan American Airways and was used to inaugurate the first commercial transpacific air service from San Francisco to Manila in November, 1935. Built at a cost of $417,000 by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, Maryland, it was delivered to Pan Am on October 9, 1935.

Cover flown on the “China Clipper” on the first commercial transpacific flight from Alameda, CA, to Manila, PI (FAM 14) November 22–29, 1935 On November 22, 1935 it took off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean. – Wikipedia

Cover flown on the “China Clipper” on the first commercial transpacific flight from Alameda, CA, to Manila, PI (FAM 14) November 22–29, 1935 – Wikipedia

In my birthday gift bag my dad gave me, there was also this unused Pan Am matchbook.

Lion Match Co. — Located in Chicago, IL, known in later years as Lion Corporation of America. It originally started business in 1917, in Brooklyn, NY, and began using the Safety First footer wording in 1922. Today, this company produces a general advertising specialty line. It ceased primary matchcover production in 1995, but still produces advertising specialities. – Matchbook Covers dot com

Lazarus im Schnee – Backyard Scarecrow’s Ode to Spring

Mar 21st, 2015

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Lazarus M. Snow © Frank H. Jump

Mag da draußen Schnee sich türmen,
Mag es hageln, mag es stürmen,
Klirrend an mein Fenster schlagen,
Nimmer will ich mich beklagen!
Denn ich trage in der Brust
Liebchens Bild und Frühlingslust.

Let snow on itself be piled,
Let the howling storm rage wild,
Beating o’er the window-pane,
Never more will I complain,
For within my heart bide warm
Spring-tide joy and sweetheart’s form.
(Translation attributed to Emma Lazarus – with some tweaks by me)

Heinrich Heine (1797 – 1856)

Mortal, sneer not at the devil;
Life’s a short and narrow way,
And perdition everlasting
Is no error of the day.

Mortal, pay thy debts precisely,
Life’s a long and weary way;
And to-morrow thou must borrow,
As thou borrow’dst yesterday.

Emma Lazarus (1849 – 1887)

Mr Jump – Editors’ Choice #IwantRESIDUALpay

Mar 21st, 2015

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iPhone Screenshot of Apple Apps revolving banner ads for apps

Amersfort Park – Winter Storm Ultima – La Tormenta de Invierno Ultima – Hoping It Really Is The Last

Mar 20th, 2015

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La última tormenta de invierno
The last winter storm
Ushers in Spring
Crocus heads sticking up
Through a thick white blanket
Of slush
Forsythia fortunate she didn’t
Show off her early lemon blush

This Year’s Vernal Equinox May Be a Slushy Mess – Happy Spring Solstice

Mar 20th, 2015

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March Equinox in New York, New York, U.S.A. is on
Friday, March 20, 2015 at 6:45 PM EDT…

…and as much as I may wish it to look like the beginning of last Spring…

Amersfort Park from Avenue I – March 5, 2015 © Frank H. Jump

…it may just wind up looking like this.

Scandinavia gets to see a total solar eclipse, we get to drive home in snow. Happy Spring Solstice.

DeRobertis, Richard Yee’s – What’s Next? SAVE NYC

Mar 19th, 2015

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When I read about DeRobertis closing in Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY in November of last year, I somehow was not surprised. Not because I’m a jinx and I took pics of the interior in May of that year, although – I wouldn’t recommend you letting me take pics of your new home, your wedding or newborn. It’s not because I’ve lived this never-ending Twilight Zone episode of loss in my life that I have seemed to conveniently document through photography – it’s just inevitable.

May 2014 © Frank H. Jump

May 2014 © Frank H. Jump

May 2014 © Frank H. Jump

May 2014 © Frank H. Jump

I frequently pass Richard Yee’s ghost that still lays fallow on Avenue U and think when will this be replaced by at best, a local grocer and at worst, another Rite-Aid. We can use another good Chinese restaurant but that would be wishful thinking.

And in light of the many closings of businesses that seem to be staples and undying institutions, you have to ask yourself- “What is next?”

Many stores we frequent in Queens like Rudy’s Cafe in Ridgewood – and in Brooklyn like Three Guys on 65th Street where we buy our fresh produce – are small businesses whose doors remain open because faithful neighborhood consumers keep them alive. If you like a business in your neighborhood and want them to remain there, shop there. That’s why we buy all of our milk and ice-cream and pastries at Lords Bakery at Flatbush Junction, because I don’t want to see them have to close their doors. With the rising rents and pressure from mega-stores popping up almost everywhere and never-ending changing trends – the fate of the small business almost seems inevitable. Even in places that don’t seem to be in flux.

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It is time to take action and to demand action from our city government. Save New York! Join the Save New York Facebook page to start organizing with other New Yorkers today. Use the hashtag #‎SaveNYC when you tweet.

Thank you,
Jeremiah Moss
Vanishing New York

County Line Barbeque in Austin on the Lake Neon – Austin, TX – Jordan Jacobs

Mar 18th, 2015

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Inside My Birthday Bloom – Orange Red Tulip

Mar 17th, 2015

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Mobiloil & Dunlop Tyres from Down Under – Brunswick East, Melbourne, OZ – Gabriele Rigato & John Hunter, Lost Melbourne

Mar 16th, 2015

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Since I started photographing signs in 1983, I have been impressed that no one ever put graffiti on any of the signs regardless of whether they were on existing buildings, construction sites or demolition areas. The most I had seen was four chalk marks someone had drawn in the ring of a letter “O” to make a face out of it. The graffiti drawn on the Dunlop sign is a very recent exception. The Mobiloil sign is untouched. – John Hunter