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    ZOMBIE ADVERTISING

    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2021 3 comments

    I had been noticing out of date ads at the Little Neck LIRR station for some time…none had been replaced in over a year, as agencies had ceased buying ad…

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    RENTAL AD, Brooklyn Heights

    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 8, 2021 4 comments

    I was bemused by an article in the NY Times by columnist Lindsay Crouse, about how her life was changed by being unable to run outdoors during the covid pandemic.…

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    BORROWED ADS

    by Kevin Walsh January 20, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 20, 2021 4 comments

    I was digging around in my Facebook photo files and I came up with a cache of photos that were sent by US Naval academician David Silver back in 2012…

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    ROCCO’S FAMOUS CALAMARI, Bay Ridge

    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2020 3 comments

    A relatively new “ghost sign” can be found at 6408 Fort Hamilton Parkway, where there is still a painted ad for Rocco’s Famous Calamari. The Italian eatery was founded by…

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    WEMPLE WINDOW SHADES, Greenwood Heights

    by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2020 3 comments

    I was wandering around in that nebulous area of Brooklyn between the waterfront and Green-Wood Cemetery, between about 24th and 36th Streets. This area had never been identified as part…

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    EDUCATOR CRACKERS

    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 20, 2020 1 comment

    Here’s a look at a Queens grocery store or delicatessen in July 1938. The shelves are chockablock with canned, packaged and bottled goods. You can see packs of Coca-Cola, for…

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    JABEZ BURNS, Hells Kitchen

    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2020 8 comments

    Here’s a placid scene at #605 West 42nd Street in 1940, just west of 11th Avenue in Hells Kitchen. Well into the 1980s, this was a somewhat sketchy part of…

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    CARDINAL REALTY, Crown Heights

    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2020 5 comments

    Doing some late night noodling in Google Street View, I happened upon this ad, painted directly onto the building bricks on St. Johns Place just east of Troy Avenue for…

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    McENERY’S, Midwood

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2020 3 comments

    Forgotten Fan Bill Mangahas passed along this photo taken a few years ago by Jay Bendersky of a painted building ad on Avenue J just east of Coney Island Avenue.…

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    BABEE TENDA, ELMHURST

    by Kevin Walsh February 7, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh February 7, 2020 23 comments

    Here’s a look at what was a Babee-Tenda showroom at 84-14 Queens Boulevard, just west of Broadway, in Elmhurst in 1940. The company made a sort of high-tech high chair…

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    FLETCHER’S CASTORIA, NEW BRIGHTON

    by Kevin Walsh January 4, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 4, 2020 0 comment

    Charles H. Fletcher began selling his Castoria, a mild stomach remedy for children, in 1871, acquiring the patent from its inventor Dr. Samuel Pitcher. The medicine was heavily promoted on ads…

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    3rd AVENUE AD MYSTERIES

    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2019 11 comments

    Staggering around Harlem on a recent Saturday, I gravitated to 3rd Avenue, which I hadn’t invaded recently. Mindful of the fact that 3rd Avenue had an elevated train rumbling over…

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