THIS painted ad for Kaufman Office Stores on Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway is considerably faded, but still recognizable, from when I first spotted it at the Dawn of Forgotten NY in 1998. By now, Staples has pretty much cornered the market on the dwindling office supplies biz. When I first moved to Little Neck in 2007, a Staples occupied the building adjacent to the Scobee Diner and across Little Neck Parkway from an OTB betting parlor, and by now all three are gone.
Of chief interest for history buffs on this ad is the presence of two old-style phone exchanges, FA 7-1132 and LO 5-6252. FA stood for FAirbanks while LO could be LOcust, LOgan, or LOwell (Help me out here in Comments).
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7/24/24