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© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
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Central Hotel Building – Batteries – Tires – Tubes & Accessories [Auto] – Dodge City, KS
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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
Firestone Then and Now – Bedford Avenue & Empire Blvd – Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Fay S. Lincoln – 1926 – NYPL – As featured on Brownstoner
Fay Sturtevant Lincoln, known professionally as F. S. Lincoln, was an architectural photographer active from the 1930s to the 1950s in New York City, Long Island, New York State, and with commissions in Charleston, South Carolina, and Williamsburg, Virginia. – Penn State University Libraries
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Vincenzo and I have passed by this corner countless times while driving up Bedford Avenue from end to end. Today we had to stop and look at it with new eyes of wonder. We both have known about Bedford Avenue’s history with automobile dealers since Brooklyn transitioned from a horse-town to an automobile town. Other remnants like the Studebaker showroom building and the Avenue D Oldsmobile derelict neon are stunning examples of this past. In researching the building, I found a Brownstoner article from November 2011 that features the topmost image from F.S. Lincoln. Now, since I’ve posted this, the odds are this building will disappear within a year. I’m bad luck. I don’t recommend hiring me for taking pics of your new home, wedding or newborn. This has been my personal Twilight Zone saga since I’ve started documenting fading ads. Not all of the images I’ve shot are gone thankfully.
