vintage mural ads & other signage by Frank H. Jump & friends
This former livery stable has since been painted bright green. © Vincenzo Aiosa
Port Richmond Avenue & Church © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Google Books
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
This stables may not be associated with the mentioned biography of W.H. Johnson, but it provides an accurate snapshot of the family livery stables business in Port Richmond in the mid-19th-century.
© Frank H. Jump
Previously posted earlier this week in TriBeCa, the Seal of New York City is pictured here on our school which was built in 1901. According to Wikipedia:
The seal of the city of New York, adopted in an earlier form in 1686, bears the legend SIGILLUM CIVITATIS NOVI EBORACI which means simply “The Seal of the City of New York”: Eboracum was the Roman name for York, the titular seat of James II as Duke of York.
In both decorative wall plaques, the bald eagle is looking to the “sinister” side where a Lenape Indian stands. The seal represented in the Wikipedia article shows the eagle looking towards the “dexter” figure, a mariner colonist who holds a plummet in his right hand.
© Wikipedia Commons
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
NYC Seal © Frank H. Jump
Grutchfield mentions this building having ” a “vintage” sign that is carved in stone….on West Broadway between Beach and Franklin streets.” According to a gentleman on last week’s Fading Ads of TriBeCa Walking Tour, this was done in a time when there was so much pollution, the building and sign could be power-washed.
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Collage © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
American Thread Company, 260 West Broadway at Beach St., New York, 2005
In 1901 the New York Times (16 May 1901, p. 12) reported the prospective sale of the Wool Exchange Building at West Broadway and Beach Street. The American Thread Company “or interests closely associated with it” was mentioned as the prospective purchaser. The American Thread Company was already a tenant of three floors in the building, which was described as “an eleven-story structure at the northwest corner of West Broadway and Beach Street, 75.5 by 96.3, extending around on St. John’s Lane at the rear, where it has a frontage of 141.8 feet. It was put up about 1895, primarily to afford suitable quarters for the Wool Exchange and for the now defunct Tradesmen’s National Bank… The banking room is now occupied by the recently organized Varick Bank. The Wool Club has elaborately fitted up rooms on one of the upper floors, and part of the street floor is occupied as a Post Office sub-station.” – Walter Grutchfield
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