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Cooped Up? Feeling Low? Enjoy a Movie Today – 42nd Street – The World’s Greatest Movie Center – Times Square – Bickford’s

From Fading Ads of NYC (History Press, 2011) © Frank H. Jump

On the storefront before this fading ad is a Bickford’s sign. The shot of this fading ad was taken just a few months before the building (which served as the Times Square Visitors Center) collapsed from a water leak on December 30, 1997.

© Frank H. Jump

Times Square Billboard & Pole Parallax

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© Frank H. Jump

1650 Broadway – The Best Known Address in the Entertainment World – Concord Sign Co.

© Frank H. Jump

Courtesy of Glenn Adelson

Unknown Establishment – Lunch Dinner, Wines & Liquor – West 48th Street – Times Square, NYC

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

More Pigeons & Reasons Why We Live Here – Times Square, NYC

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Times Square – formerly Longacre Square

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Longacre Square New York City 1880 “The island plot at corner of 42nd St and Broadway in 1880, now occupied by the ‘Times’ building, after the demolition of the Pabst restaurant and brownstone houses.” Valentine’s Manual of Old New York / No. 7, page 123, Ed. Henry Collins Brown, Pub. Valentine’s Manual Inc. copyright 1922- Wikipedia