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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-11

Mar 11th, 2012
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Rubinstein & Klein Fine Furniture – Open Sunday – Boro Park, Brooklyn

Mar 10th, 2012
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© Frank H. Jump

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Posted in: Boro Park, Brooklyn, Furniture.

Tiny purple shock / Saffron announcement of Spring / Always amazes #Haiku Perennial Flatbush Crocus Moment – The Junction

Mar 9th, 2012
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© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Tiny purple shock / Saffron announcement of Spring / Always amazes  #Haiku

Posted in: Crocus, Flatbush Junction, Haiku, Horticulture.

Looka, Looka, Looka – Daytime Coney Island Neons – 2003–2005

Mar 8th, 2012
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© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Posted in: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Waterfront, Coney Island, Derelict Neon, Neons.

Featured Fade – Firestone Tires – Kew Gardens, Queens – Nick Hirshon

Mar 7th, 2012
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© Nick Hirshon

Posted in: Featured Fade, Guest Contributor, Kew Gardens, Nick Hirshon, Queens, Tires.

VAVA Voom! SAVE THE DATE – May 14, 2012

Mar 6th, 2012
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For more info, contact Amy Sadao at asadao@visualAIDS.org or visit VAVA Voom

Posted in: AIDS Education, Visual AIDS.

Souveniers – Coney Island Boardwalk – July 2003

Mar 6th, 2012
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© Frank H. Jump

Posted in: Brooklyn Waterfront, Coney Island.

Buildings’ Fading Ads Come With Lingering Tales | New York City | United States | Epoch Times

Mar 5th, 2012
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A fading ad for Reckitt's Blue, a blue substance once used in laundry to tint whites slightly blue, which was seen as more white-looking than whites with a yellowish tint. The ad is on a building on Washington Avenue between Pacific and Dean streets in Brooklyn. (Frank Jump)

A fading ad for Reckitt's Blue, a blue substance once used in laundry to tint whites slightly blue, which was seen as more white-looking than whites with a yellowish tint. The ad is on a building on Washington Avenue between Pacific and Dean streets in Brooklyn. (Frank Jump)

NEW YORK—Famed photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975) saw the beauty in New York City’s “ghost ads.” The once brilliantly colored paintings advertising all sorts of obsolete wares—like a fig and syrup children’s laxative—now fading into the cityscape.

Evans shot some of the fading murals of his day, and a new generation of artists now captures the fading works, often delving into the stories behind them.

Brooklyn photographer Frank Jump began documenting what he calls the city’s “fading ads” after he learned in 1986 that he was HIV positive.

“I was documenting something that never expected to live so long, and I didn’t expect to live so long,” said Jump, who has compiled his work into a book titled “Fading Ads of New York City.” – READ MORE

by Tara MacIsaac

New York Editor
Editorial Department
The Epoch Times

Buildings’ Fading Ads Come With Lingering Tales | New York City | United States | Epoch Times.

Posted in: Fading Ads of NYC - the book.

Cyclone Rollercoaster – Coney Island, Brooklyn – July 2003

Mar 5th, 2012
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Two digital images spliced © Frank H. Jump

Missing the Coney Island of my yoot.

Posted in: Brooklyn, Coney Island, Cyclone Rollercoast.

Saks Fifth Avenue – Midtown, NYC

Mar 4th, 2012
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© Frank H. Jump

Saks Fifth Avenue is the successor of a business founded by Andrew Saks in 1867 and incorporated in New York in 1902 as Saks & Company. Andrew died in 1912 and in 1923 Saks & Co. merged with Gimbel Brothers, Inc., operating as a separate autonomous subsidiary. On September 15, 1924, Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel opened Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. – Wikipedia

We always shopped at Gimbels.

 

Posted in: Department Stores.

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