FADING AD BLOG HAS MOVED!
We have changed our domain to fadingad.com/fadingadblog and continue to post daily! Please change your links! Thank you for your continued readership. COMMENTS HAVE BEEN CLOSED. Please visit the new domain for commenting.
Archives
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
Fading Ad-egories
Meta
Blogroll
- Adbusters
- Adult Christianity
- Advertising Lab
- AIDS Treatment & Data
- AlphaInventions
- American Sign Museum
- ArtKraft Strauss Photo Archive
- Bartolomeo Mecánico’s Fading Ads
- Belinda Hogan – Australia
- Billboardom
- Biomes Blog
- Blacklight
- Center for Media Literacy
- Civic Nature
- Colorants History
- Colossal Media
- Condensed Pop
- Dot Earth – NY Times Blog
- Eccentric Roadside
- Education’s Place for Debate
- Equality Matters
- Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches
- Fading Ad Campaign
- Fading Ad Wiki
- Fading AIDS Gallery
- Flores en el ático – Flowers in the attic
- Forgotten NY
- Ghost Sign Waymarking
- Ghost Signs Seattle
- Gonzo Multiverse
- Google Earth
- graffiti archaeology
- Heather Robinson
- Industrial Decay
- Interactive Periodic Table of Elements
- James Lileks
- Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York
- Just Watching – Nederlandse Fotoblog
- Kipnotes Advertising Timeline
- Letterbox – Australian Fading Ads
- Lonely Pictures
- Lost City
- MaliceMax
- Matthew K. Tabor
- Menopausal Stoners
- Michael Klein’s – Notes from the Interior
- Mindfully dot org
- Mural Routes of Canada
- News From Babylon
- NY Times City Room Blog
- Old Newark Web Group
- Out My Window NYC
- Peal Collection, LLC (Bayonne)
- Pete Lit
- Philadelphia Ghost Signage Project
- Pittsburgh Signs
- Portland Building Ads
- Queens Crap
- Racism & National Consciousness News
- realia
- Roadside Galore
- Sam Roberts’ Brick Ads Blog (UK)
- Sandra Walker RI
- Science Fair Central
- St Pete Project Daily Photo
- SuperSense – Bruce M. Hood
- The Gay Recluse
- The Lazy Scholar
- The Virtual Dime Museum
- Thirteen dot org (PBS)
- Tim Connor Pix
- To The Wire
- United For Peace
- Uptown Flavor
- Vanished Ottawa
- Veer: Elements for Creativity
- Villatype
- Vision? Nary!
- visualAIDS
- visualAIDS blog
- visualingual
- Walter Grutchfield's 14to42.net
- Wes Carr’s Whiskey Texas Blog
- WIRED
- Wooster Collective
- WordPress.com
- WordPress.org
Brooklyn Blogs
- A Brooklyn Life
- Bed-Stuy Banana
- Bed-Stuy Blog
- Best View In Brooklyn – Sunset Park
- Big Sky Brooklyn
- Brit In Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Hall of Fame
- Brooklyn Junction
- Brooklyn Optimist
- Brooklynometry
- Clinton Hill Blog
- Destination Red Hook
- Ditmas Park
- Enzo's View
- Erik S. Lieber Photography
- Flatbush Gardener
- Flatbush Pigeon
- Found In Brooklyn
- Fukced in Park Slope
- Gerritsen Beach
- Gowanus Canal Photography
- Gowanus Lounge
- Greenpointers
- I’m Seeing Green
- Kingston Lounge
- McBrooklyn
- Miss Heather’s New York Shitty
- OTBKB
- Pardon Me For Asking
- Rantourage
- Self-Absorbed Boomer
- Sheepshead Bites
- Sidewalk Photography
- Sustainable Flatbush
- The Vacant Beat
- Tim Connor
Blog Stats
- 1,310,573 hits
- vintage mural ads & other signage-
a cross-curricular collaboration
send your fades & raves to:
frankjump [at] fadingad [dot] com Meta
May 2024 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Archives
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
Blogroll
- Adbusters
- Adult Christianity
- Advertising Lab
- AIDS Treatment & Data
- AlphaInventions
- American Sign Museum
- ArtKraft Strauss Photo Archive
- Bartolomeo Mecánico’s Fading Ads
- Belinda Hogan – Australia
- Billboardom
- Biomes Blog
- Blacklight
- Center for Media Literacy
- Civic Nature
- Colorants History
- Colossal Media
- Condensed Pop
- Dot Earth – NY Times Blog
- Eccentric Roadside
- Education’s Place for Debate
- Equality Matters
- Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches
- Fading Ad Campaign
- Fading Ad Wiki
- Fading AIDS Gallery
- Flores en el ático – Flowers in the attic
- Forgotten NY
- Ghost Sign Waymarking
- Ghost Signs Seattle
- Gonzo Multiverse
- Google Earth
- graffiti archaeology
- Heather Robinson
- Industrial Decay
- Interactive Periodic Table of Elements
- James Lileks
- Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York
- Just Watching – Nederlandse Fotoblog
- Kipnotes Advertising Timeline
- Letterbox – Australian Fading Ads
- Lonely Pictures
- Lost City
- MaliceMax
- Matthew K. Tabor
- Menopausal Stoners
- Michael Klein’s – Notes from the Interior
- Mindfully dot org
- Mural Routes of Canada
- News From Babylon
- NY Times City Room Blog
- Old Newark Web Group
- Out My Window NYC
- Peal Collection, LLC (Bayonne)
- Pete Lit
- Philadelphia Ghost Signage Project
- Pittsburgh Signs
- Portland Building Ads
- Queens Crap
- Racism & National Consciousness News
- realia
- Roadside Galore
- Sam Roberts’ Brick Ads Blog (UK)
- Sandra Walker RI
- Science Fair Central
- St Pete Project Daily Photo
- SuperSense – Bruce M. Hood
- The Gay Recluse
- The Lazy Scholar
- The Virtual Dime Museum
- Thirteen dot org (PBS)
- Tim Connor Pix
- To The Wire
- United For Peace
- Uptown Flavor
- Vanished Ottawa
- Veer: Elements for Creativity
- Villatype
- Vision? Nary!
- visualAIDS
- visualAIDS blog
- visualingual
- Walter Grutchfield's 14to42.net
- Wes Carr’s Whiskey Texas Blog
- WIRED
- Wooster Collective
- WordPress.com
- WordPress.org
Brooklyn Blogs
- A Brooklyn Life
- Bed-Stuy Banana
- Bed-Stuy Blog
- Best View In Brooklyn – Sunset Park
- Big Sky Brooklyn
- Brit In Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Hall of Fame
- Brooklyn Junction
- Brooklyn Optimist
- Brooklynometry
- Clinton Hill Blog
- Destination Red Hook
- Ditmas Park
- Enzo's View
- Erik S. Lieber Photography
- Flatbush Gardener
- Flatbush Pigeon
- Found In Brooklyn
- Fukced in Park Slope
- Gerritsen Beach
- Gowanus Canal Photography
- Gowanus Lounge
- Greenpointers
- I’m Seeing Green
- Kingston Lounge
- McBrooklyn
- Miss Heather’s New York Shitty
- OTBKB
- Pardon Me For Asking
- Rantourage
- Self-Absorbed Boomer
- Sheepshead Bites
- Sidewalk Photography
- Sustainable Flatbush
- The Vacant Beat
- Tim Connor
Category Archives: Fletcher’s Castoria
Fletcher’s Castoria – Broadway – Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Posted in Brooklyn, Fletcher's Castoria, Williamsburg
More Old East New York: ENY Terminal Buildings & Images from Our Lady of Loreto
East New York Terminal Buildings (2002)
Our Lady of Loreto – 124 Sackman Street
Yesterday, I was doing a search for Diana Coal Oil since I recently reposted it, and I found my image on the Our Lady of Loreto’s Photo’s of Old East New York page (Dominick Mondelli, Webmaster). Here are some highlights from Donny’s page of old East New York filled with great fading ads and other glimpses of Brooklyn’s past.
Trommer’s Genuine Ale – Fletcher’s Castoria – Astoria, Queens
John F. Trommer’s Evergreen Brewery
[Bushwick Ave at Conway Street, Brooklyn]
The Brooklyn brewery was founded by John F. Trommer, who had emigrated from Germany. He settled first in Maine, then worked in Boston, and finally settled in New York City. After working in a number of breweries, he purchased the recently built plant of Stehlin and Breitkopf in 1896. Know as the Evergreen Brewery, it grew gradually during the next two decades. Trommer died in 1898, but his son, George, continued the business. Somewhat atypically, George Trommer managed to expand business during the 1920s by lending money and giving support to potential owners of hot dog restaurants-which, of course, featured Trommer’s White Label Near Beer. By 1930 he supplied more than 950 such places.
In 1933, a second plant was opened in Orange, New Jersey, and both breweries proved very successful well into the late 1940s. [Furthermore, Trommer’s housed one of Brooklyn’s most popular beer gardens called the Maple Garden.] The New York City strike of 1949 and loss of sales thereafter hurt the company, however, and the New Jersey plant was sold to Rheingold in 1950. In 1951 Trommer announced the sale of the Brooklyn plant to Piel Brothers. George Trommer died on November 16, 1956, at the age of 83.
In Bushwick, the presence of the brewing industry encouraged the dairy industry. Farmers collected spent grain and hops for cow feed. Milk, with close to 4% butterfat, was sold fresh, made into cream, butter, cheese or ice-cream, or thinned for drinking. The milk business supported blacksmiths, wheelrights and feed stores along Flushing Ave. The Bedford section of Brooklyn (now part of Bedford-Stuyvesant) was agricultural until the 1920s, hosting substantial dairy activity. – New York Food Museum (Brooklyn Beer)
Comments Off on Trommer’s Genuine Ale – Fletcher’s Castoria – Astoria, Queens
Posted in Astoria, Breweriana, Breweries, Brewing Companies, Brooklyn, Fletcher's Castoria
Fletcher’s Castoria – Spring Street – Soho, NYC
Comments Off on Fletcher’s Castoria – Spring Street – Soho, NYC
Posted in Fletcher's Castoria, Soho NYC, Vincenzo Aiosa
Weekend Feature Fade – Turkish – Fletcher’s Castoria Pentimento – Dave Cook
Posted in Chinatown, Featured Fade, Fletcher's Castoria
Fletcher’s Castoria/Kessler’s Pentimento – East NY, Brooklyn 2002
© Frank H. Jump
This lush pentimento near Liberty & Logan still bore the faded slogans “Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria” and the non-sequitur “Jesus Never Fails.”
Comments Off on Fletcher’s Castoria/Kessler’s Pentimento – East NY, Brooklyn 2002
Posted in Fletcher's Castoria, Pentimento
Fletcher’s Castoria – Fifth Avenue – Park Slope, Brooklyn 2007
© Frank H. Jump
Comments Off on Fletcher’s Castoria – Fifth Avenue – Park Slope, Brooklyn 2007
Posted in Fletcher's Castoria, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Park Slope Brooklyn
1899 Film of Train Crossing Over Brooklyn Bridge – Fletcher’s Castoria Ad Clearly Seen – Library of Congress
This still was taken from a Library of Congress archival footage of a train crossing the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan. The Fletcher’s Castoria ad on the right is clearly seen in the beginning of the film. Steam billowing from what possibly was the Domino Sugar Refiner is an awesome sight.
Click above to view Quicktime MPG file.
Click above for link to Library of Congress for other file formats. Choose item #14
New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, no. 2 /
Fletcher’s Castoria – Chinatown, NYC – March 1997
By far the most prolific NYC fading ad at one time. For more information about Castoria products, visit the Centaur Company website and the Fading Ad Campaign!
Comments Off on Fletcher’s Castoria – Chinatown, NYC – March 1997
Posted in Chinatown, Fletcher's Castoria, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Laxatives, NYC, Photography
Fletcher’s Castoria – Rediscovering Jamaica… Jamaica, Queens
© Frank H. Jump
Archer Avenue off Sutphin Blvd. Fletcher’s Castoria is one of the most prolific and lasting fading ads in the NYC area. Originally formulated as a childrens’ laxative by the Centaur Company, the slogans often read – “Fletcher’s Castoria – Made Especially for Children.”
Fletcher’s Castoria on Smith – Brooklyn
© Frank H. Jump
Between Douglass & Butler