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January, 2016:

Central Hotel Building – Batteries – Tires – Tubes & Accessories [Auto] – Dodge City, KS

© Frank H. Jump

Gunsmoke Street © Frank H. Jump

The Central Hotel building was built circa 1930. The two-story brick building is is a fairly plain appearing building. The building originally housed a service station on the first floor. The building had a canted opening allowing the cars to drive through. The second-story housed a hotel. The first story has now been closed off and has two store fronts. The building has ghost signs showing its past.

The building now houses a music store and another business. – Waymarking

John Deere – Dodge City, KS

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Drugs – Spring Lake, NJ – Featured Fade, Kathleen Snow

© Kathleen Snow

W.R. Martin Co. – Machinists – Welding – Steel Fabrication – Louisville, KY

Established 1905 © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Curlee Clothing Co. – St. Louis, MO

© Frank H. Jump

The Curlee Clothing Company, formerly the Corinth Woolen Mills, moved to St. Louis from Corinth, Mississippi, in 1905. In 1913, The Curlee Clothing Company absorbed the Schwab Clothing Company, the oldest corporation of its kind west of the Mississippi….The Curlee Clothing Company collection, 1938, contain materials on the treatment of organized labor by the company…. The collection consists of one letter and three fliers about Curlee Clothing Company’s unfair treatment of organized labor. – Georgia State University Library Digital Collection [digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/1070]

Plate and Window Glass – St. Louis, MO

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Willy Jump Turns Pinup Girl in Her 80th Year – Menorah Rehabilitation & Nursing Facility – #mjhspicture

© Frank H. Jump

Buddy doing his job well © Vincenzo Aiosa

© Frank H. Jump

Willy Jump in Rome, 1962

Amsterdam Photo Booth Memoirs

Iron Company – St. Louis, MO

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Grocery & General Store – East Market, Louisville KY

© Frank H. Jump

Worthmore Chili & Soups – Cincinnati, OH

© Frank H. Jump

Worthmore