vintage mural ads & other signage by Frank H. Jump & friends
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
December 1916 – American Pressman – Q: Kindly give us names of manufacturers of numbering machines. A: American Numbering Machine Co. – 200 Shepherd Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.
American Pressman 1916 © Google Books
MEN: 45 or over to work in machine shop; no experinece required; 5-day week; no work Saturdays. American Numbering Machine Co., Atlantic ave., corner Shepherd ave., Brooklyn – Jamaica Long Island Daily 1946 – WANT ADS – Fulton History
’35¢ Per 100 Lbs’ © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Turock Bros. – Phone 640 – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE © Frank H. Jump
CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE © Frank H. Jump
Coal, Ice, Wood – 1301 Main Street – Dickson City – © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
THE DICKSON CITY BOROUGH SCHOOL District solicits sealed bids for the furnishing of Janitors’ Supplies of the Second Class for the School Year 1938 – 37. Lists of supplies can be secured from the Secretary. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. A certified check of 10 per cent of the amount of the bid shall accompany each bid. All bids to be In the hands of the Secretary. John J. Turock. on July 1. 1936. at 7:30 P. M., at which time they shall be opened and read at an Adjourned Regular Meeting of the Board In the Board Room. JOHN J. TUROCK, Secretary, 1301 Main Street, Dickson City, Pa. – June 24, 1936 – The Scranton Republican from Scranton, Pennsylvania · Page 30
© Howie Schechter
The building pictured is located on NW Marshall. “H. J. STOLL & SONS was formed on 1938-01-17 in Oregon by ROBERT F STOLL located at 2320 SE GRAND AVE, PORTLAND, OR, 97214. It is no longer active.” – Business Profiles dot com
© Howie Schechter
Farm Scene – Oregon Feed & Grain Association
H.J. Stoll is a Honorary Lifetime Member of the Oregon Feed & Grain Association.
Back of building – © Howie Schechter
© Willemieke Molenaar
© Willemieke Molenaar
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]
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
CLICK FOR MORE FASCIST REMNANTS IN NORTHERN ITALY © Frank H. Jump
La Patria non si nega ma si conquista – Mussolini A. XIV
Don’t deny your country but conquer it (or conquer for it)
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)
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
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.
© Frank H. Jump
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?”
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Frank Jump in front of my friend David’s Rebel Rebel Records on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village. © Frank H. Jump
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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Thank you,
Jeremiah Moss
Vanishing New York
Lost Melbourne Facebook Group © Gabriele Rigato
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
Old Sign Writing – March 2, 2015 © John Hunter
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