© Frank H. Jump
Old Logo may become new logo © Frank H. Jump
The Model “T” Ford logo was changed last year by the ACGNY, which was founded in 1960. Apparently, it may change back after a revamped website and logo.
Brooklyn
Labor Day Weekend Guest Fades – Maurice Ice Cream – Avenue H Station, Brooklyn – Valerie Landriscina
© Valerie Landriscina
Hi Frank,
This is at the Avenue H station on the Q line. The building is on the southbound side of the station. It’s the east-facing wall of 1504 Avenue H building. The MTA removed the corrugated steel partitions during the on-going rehabilitation project. I’m hoping they don’t repaint the wall when they replace the siding. But in case they do, I thought you should add it to the files.
I haven’t been able to find any more information on Maurice’s Ice Cream aside from this: http://www.harringtonhousebedandbreakfast.com/History/ I’m assuming it’s the same company. I would love to know more about it and what the entire ad was for.
Have a good Labor Day weekend.
Best,
Valerie
Ebinger Baking Co – Flatbush – Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Albemarle Road - Flatbush, Brooklyn - iPhone shot with Hipstamatic app - © Frank H. Jump
18th Avenue, Bensonhurst - © Frank H. Jump
Ebinger Baking Company, with a chain of stores across the boro, was founded in 1898 by George and Catherine Ebinger. Famous for their cakes and pies, and especially their Blackout Cake, they closed in bankruptcy on August 26, 1972.
There have been attempts to revive the bakery brand under that name, but none, so far, have been successful.
Named for wartime blackouts, their famous and beloved chocolate-pudding-filled Blackout Cake was a chocolate layer cake filled and frosted with dark fudge and dusted with chocolate cake crumbs that was so popular that other bakeries in the borough, like SeaLane, produced inferior knock-offs.
Other Ebinger favorites were a butter cream cake decorated with three small pistachio nuts in the center of the top and Chocolate hard-icing cake with a hard, bittersweet chocolate icing.
Supposedly the Ebinger family has all their original recipes under lock and key and is uninterested in releasing them, but facsimile recipes pop up once in a while. Here is a recipe for Blackout Cake from Cooks Country TV that gets very good reviews, if you’d like to try making it yourself (registration is required to see the recipe, but it’s free).
There is another version published in the Best of America’s Test Kitchen 2008 cookbook (see below for a link to it on Amazon.com).
Speaking of bakeries, another Brooklyn institution is Entenmann’s Bakery, founded by William Entenmann who came to Brooklyn from Germany in 1898. Today, the Entenmann’s brand is on over 100 different kinds of baked goods. Entenmann’s is now owned by Bimbo Bakeries USA, the American subsidiary of a gigantic Mexican/Multi-national food production corporation, which also owns brands such as Thomas’ (english muffins), Arnold (bread) and Boboli (pizza crusts). – Brooklyn dot com
Other Ebinger postings on the Internet:
- 18th Avenue – Forgotten NY
- Brooklyn dot com – What ever happened to Ebinger’s Bakery?
Edwin B. Stimpson Co – Eyelet & Grommet Factory – Wallabout, Brooklyn Waterfront
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
In 1852, the Edwin B. Stimpson Company opened a 1,500 square foot factory in Lower Manhattan at what would be, 31 years hence, the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Now, more than 150 years later, Stimpson produces the largest variety of standard and special eyelets of any single company in the world from two facilities totaling over 550,000 square feet. Our Bayport, New York and Pompano Beach, Florida plants are furnished with the most advanced, state-of-the-art, high-speed automated equipment available. – Stimpson Co Facilities
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