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Tobaccoania
Tom Keene Cigars – Tom Moore Cigars Pentimento – Furnished Rooms – Spokane, WA
July 2009 © Frank H. Jump
- Tom Moore Cigars – Hot Springs AR – FAB – Sept 2009 & on Flickr!
- Tom Keene Cigars – Ghost Signs Seattle
Lowlands Correspondent: Gaia Son – Miss Blanche Virginia Cigarettes – Leiden, NL – Vilmos Huszar: De Stijl & Dutch Modernism
© Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
Vilmos Huszár (1884–1960) was a Hungarian painter and designer. He lived in The Netherlands, where he was one of the founder members of the art movement De Stijl.
Huszár was born in Budapest, Hungary. He emigrated to The Netherlands in 1905, settling at first in Voorburg. He was influenced by Cubism and Futurism. He met other influential artists including Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, both central figures in establishing the De Stijl movement with Huszár in 1917. Huszár also co-founded the De Stijl magazine and designed the cover for the first issue.
In 1926 he created a complete visual identity for Miss Blanche Virginia cigarettes, which included packaging, advertising, andpoint of sale displays. The concept drew on the imagery associated with the emergent “New Women”, or Flappers. The Flappers were perceived as young, single, urban, and employed, with independent ideas and a certain disdain for authority and social norms. The smoking of cigarettes was closely associated with their newfound independence. –Wikipedia
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Smoke Dry Climate Cigars – Wall Dog, Frank Meinhart – Butte, MT
July 2009 © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
A little research unveiled one Frank Meinhart who not only painted signs but was a well known Montana wildlife artist, even exhibiting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.. Northwest Digital Archives has a comprehensive bio of Frank as well as photos of his various signs. – The Ghost Sign Weekly – Montana’s Fading Ads
- Also on Main Street Butte
M.H. Koski, Inc. – Loans – Chesterfield Cigarettes Ad – Brooklyn Eagle Want Ads “Ask For Miss Turner” – Clinton Hill, Brooklyn – A Brownstowner Find!
© Frank H. Jump
A few weeks ago, the billboard that’s hung on the side of the bodega at Grand and Putnam avenues was taken down to reveal this old painted advertisement for M.H. Koski. As it turns out, the old-school pawn shop use to be headquartered in this very location, according to a Brooklyn Eagle ad from May 24, 1946 promoting “liberal loans on diamonds-jewelry and personal property.” If the shop had only stuck it out until the corner became a hotbed of the drug trade in the 70′s and 80′s it could have really cashed in. GMAP
By Brownstoner | 03/09/2012 12:00 PM
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Brooklyn Eagle - Tom Tryniski's Fulton History dot com
Want Ads - Young Men Single & Free - Brooklyn Eagle - Old Fulton N.Y. Postcards by Tom Tryniski
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Featured Fade – Hit Parade Cigarettes – 7-Up – Koreatown, NYC – M.R. Easton
Old ads uncovered by work on hotel facade, West 32nd Street © M.R. Easton - CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
I thought you might be interested in these small ads for 7-UP and Hit Parade cigarettes uncovered by ongoing work on the La Quinta Hotel facade in Koreatown (17 W. 32nd street). Not too faded (but damaged a bit). A quick bit of web research shows that in 1957 the Hit Parade changed sponsors from Lucky Strike to a brand named for the show. I’m not sure how long it lasted, but most ads and other references on-line are for 1957 and 1958 only. The La Quinta used to be the Aberdeen Hotel, one of the first to allow unaccompanied women to stay there on the same terms as men. – M.R. Easton
Featured Fade – Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco – Port Townsend – Olympic Peninsula, WA – Gloria Loew
© Gloria Loew
I heard you on the Leonard Lopate show, and thought you might enjoy seeing this picture I took on vacation in June 2011 on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. Like you, I find these ads beautiful and interesting.
Best of luck with your work.
Gloria Loew
Best of luck to you and your family Gloria in the New Year!
On Flickr:
Altered in Photoshop by Frank H. Jump © Gloria Loew
Altered in Photoshop by Frank H. Jump © Gloria Loew
Lewis’ Emporium & Hires Root Beer ad
Hires is Good - Good Taste - Altered in Photoshop by Frank H. Jump © Gloria Loew
Altered in Photoshop by Frank H. Jump © Gloria Loew
Cremo 5¢ Cigars – Soho, NYC
© Frank H. Jump
Hue Saturated for detail © Frank H. Jump
Hue Saturation for detail brings out underlying ad © Frank H. Jump
Chronicling America – Library of Congress (PDF)
A long, long time ago this was the largest selling cigar brand in the world, selling over a billion cigars a year… and now it’s back!
These Nicaraguan made Cremos are light, mild, creamy smokes made from Nicaraguan Visos (the mildest tobaccos near the bottom of the plant) and a flavorful Ecuador Sumatra wrapper that has no bite. Frankly this cigar is designed for the guy [or gal!] who smokes a lot of cigars every day – and these guys are gonna be real happy when they get a load of the value prices. You just can’t buy any cigar that’ll leave your mouth as fresh as a Cremo or your wallet as full. Whatta Combination! – JR Cigars
Christopher Gray from the New York Times says:
The Beekman family, Colonial-era merchants, built a riverfront mansion near the foot of East 50th Street in 1764. Many sources say that the patriot-spy Nathan Hale was first arraigned there after his capture by the British in 1776. By the mid-19th century the East River waterfront had fallen far from its resort status, and coal yards, lumber mills and other industries dotted the shoreline, at least where there was good river access.
Perhaps because the Beekman mansion’s grounds were on a high, rocky bluff without good water access, the house remained standing until the 1870’s. But in 1865 the family sold off much of its land around the newly established Beekman Place, including most of the river-facing lots between 49th and 51st Street. To protect the light and air of the brownstone row houses that soon went up at 13-39 Beekman Place, the Beekmans promised to restrict the height of future buildings on their remaining waterfront strip of land, directly below the houses, to no higher than that of Beekman Place itself.
By the turn of the century bigger and bigger factories were crowding the shoreline — among them the huge Cremo cigar factory on the current site of River House at 52nd Street — and the once-genteel private houses were filled with boarders. Still, a clipping from The New York Sun at the Museum of the City of New York, undated but probably from the 1910’s, painted a bucolic picture of the clifftop houses looking down on the rocky shore below: ”Mothers in the neighborhood take their knitting and embroidery every afternoon and bask in the shade. . . . Even Coney Island and Rockaway have nothing on the beach at Beekman Place.”
By this time the Beekman family estate was trying to void the 1865 height restriction on the waterfront strip — with a free hand, it said, it could have wiped out the beach and replaced it with a giant steam plant. In 1920 The New York Times reported on what had been a six-year fight to remove the restrictions, which the row-house owners on Beekman Place had fought strenuously to keep.
The Beekmans’ lawyer, Herbert L. Fordham, said that radical changes in the area should void the restriction because it was ridiculous to hang on to the ”half-forgotten vision of terraces and gardens . . . in the midst of towering steam plants, electric light plants and coal pockets. New York needs its waterfront for business.”
BY 1922 the Beekmans gave up the fight and leased the waterfront strip — 460 feet long, stretching from 49th up to 51st, and including the empty plot on Beekman Place now occupied by 1 Beekman Place.
The lease was acquired by a development group that announced plans for a studio apartment on the Beekman Place frontage, and a one-story garage on the waterfront strip. The studio apartment was not built, but the garage, designed by John J. Dunnigan, later a state senator from the Bronx, did go up. It had simple rubble-stone walls and a curved, wood-truss roof. The garage entrance was at 49th street.
