Originally known as West’s Theater, for its owner Ed West, a Trinidad, Colorado businessman, this theater was designed by local Trinidad architects I.H. & W.M. Rapp (brothers to C.W. and George Rapp) along with a member of the firm, A.C. Hendrickson, construction began on February 17, 1907. On March 16, 2008, it marked 100 years since it opened. Excepting for brief periods for renovation through the years, it has the distinction of being Colorado’s oldest and largest extant theatre that has never closed. – Cinema Treasures
Cigars
West Theatre – Hausman Drug Co. – M&O Cigars – Fox Theatre – Trinidad, CO
Stofhelberg’s Havana Seconds- Cigars – Cincinnati, OH – Today & Sixteen Years Ago
I returned to Cincinnati after sixteen years on our cross-country trip we took this summer. Again, I visited my friend and mentor Tod Swormstedt, founder of the American Sign Museum. In 1999, the museum was just an idea Tod had and today it is a fully realized dream. I searched for this sign, hoping it was still untouched and it was.
Cincinnati’s Over-The-Rhine neighbor surely has changed as it has morphed from a quasi-abandoned and under-served ghetto into a trendy, upscale dining and drinking strip surrounded by squalor. On our trip across this great nation, the stark differences between the “haves & have-nots” has never been more evident. Within several blocks of profitable tourist trade are communities, both African-American and Euro-American poor living side by side in utter poverty, many of whom have been displaced by gentrification. The tension was palpable.
Dominating this scenario are the anachronistic remnants of a former German immigrant commercial district, touting products that were luxury items in their day.
From what I can read it looks like: “Stofhelberg’s Havana Seconds- Cigars” Possibly Henry Straus was the distributor. – Fading Ad Campaign, June 1999
S.G. Wall – Druggists – Sundries… Main Avenue – Durango, CO
The Newman Block, of course. At 801 Main Ave., it was built in 1892 by Charles Newman, who made his fortune first through pharmacies he owned with his brothers-in-law in Silverton, Alamosa, Animas City and Chama, New Mexico, and later by locating the Swansea Mine in Rico. His drugstore in Durango went on to become S.G. Wall Druggist, the current site of Olde Tymer’s Café. Newman also represented our region in the Colorado Senate. – Durango Herald – Ann Butler, June 17, 2014
Parodi Cigar Factory – Emilio Parodi – East Sixth Street – East Village, NYC
Also see:
- History’s Mysteries: Ghost Sign on East 6th Street By Andito – November 21, 2011 – Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
Rocky’s News – Magazines – Syracuse, NY
Rocky’s News and Cigar on North Salina Street in Syracuse is the self-proclaimed “#1 Cigar Store in Upstate New York.” Established in 1985, Rocky’s currently sells a variety of snacks, non-alcoholic drinks, necessities, magazines, lottery tickets, cigarettes, lighters, cutters, ashtrays, humidors, pipes, pipe tobacco, and cigars. They even boast an online retail store where you can peruse their wide selection of products in the comfort of your home. – Peter Work, Examiner dot com – February 24, 2010