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La Taza de Oro Chelsea NYC in business from 1946-2015. We miss visiting this old-school gem for their tostones and rice and beans. Our photo of La Taza de Oro appears in our book STORE FRONT II- A History Preserved along with more text about this amazing #storefront back story.
We are releasing 11x14 inch signed prints of this #storefront for $99 including shipping to anywhere in the continental U.S. Please DM or email us at jandkphoto@att.net to order. Ideal Dinettes was founded in 1953 and specialized in kitchen dinette sets, catering to the many large Italian families living in the neighborhood. Sadly it closed in 2008 as the 2nd generation owners decided to retire and the neighborhood began to gentrify with younger,single people moving into the area. Before the shop closed, the owner called us to ask if we wanted to keep the #neon stainless steel #signage as she knew we were very fond of it, but since the #neonsign was so large (and heavy) and we live in a studio apartment, we could not take it and it ended up in a dumpster. #signgeeks #dailytype #typography #typevstime #dailytype #signcollective #bushwick #everything_signage #ig_signage #type #script #lettering
WEEK 44 – Horn Lake Schnucks Kroger, Set III
Bidding adieu to the pharmacy walk-up window/former garden center and traveling elsewhere in the parking lot for this parting shot of the main façade of this store. The architecture here is nice enough, but again, something is simply off about that paint scheme! :P I personally think the beige behind the Kroger logo should be white like the rest of that area of the storefront so it could all match. The way the shadows fall on the whole area make that beige color seem even darker than it is, in my opinion...
Kroger // 3926 Goodman Road W, Horn Lake, MS 38637
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These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Papaya King was founded in 1932 by Constantine Poulos on the corner of Third Avenue and 86th Street. Constantine “Gus” Poulos created Papaya King after falling in love with a papaya drink while on vacation in Cuba. Gus was a young Greek immigrant who owned a deli in Yorkville and after figuring out how to get fresh fruit to New York City, sold the deli and opened up his fresh tropical juice stand specializing in the creamy orange-colored drink made from the pulp of the papaya fruit. He also added fresh-squeezed strawberry 🍓 shakes and coconut drink mixed with papaya juice to the menu. It wasn’t until he fell in love with and married a young German-American woman, who introduced him to popular German food from the neighborhood, that he decided to also sell frankfurters at his juice stand. We not only love @papayaking hot dogs and papaya drink but also their iconic #neon sign which was installed in the 1960s. The full photo (this was cropped for IG) appears in our book “Store Front II-A History Preserved” among with an interview with the nephew of the founder, Mr. Poulos.
Friday it was rainy and cold in NYC but today it feels more like Spring again so we are highlighting one of the local flower 🌸 and plant 🌱 shops in our neighborhood, East Village Florist. We love how this small shop creatively makes use of the sidewalk in front of their tiny shop to display and draw in customers with vast selection of house plants and flowers.
STORE FRONT II - Fall 2015
"James and Karla Murray have been capturing impeccably accurate photographs of New York City since the 1990s. In the course of their travels throughout the city’s boroughs they’ve also taken great care to document the stories behind the scenery. The Murrays have rendered the out of the way bodegas, candy shops and record stores just as faithfully as the historically important institutions and well known restaurants, bars and cafes. From the Stonewall Inn to the Brownsville Bike Shop and The Pink Pussycat to Smith and Wolensky, the Murrays reveal how New York’s beleaguered mom & pop business stand in sharp contrast to the city’s rapidly evolving corporate facade. The authors’ landmark 2008 book, Store Front, was recently cited in Bookforum’s 20th Anniversary issue as having “...demonstrated the paradoxical power of digital photo editing to alter actual views in order for us to see more clearly what is really there.” James and Karla Murray live in New York City and were awarded the New York Society Library’s prestigious New York City book award in 2012 for their last book, New York Nights." #storefrontII
a photo taken by the ever-talented and equally kind Lau (Flickr name: lauronsky ). All rights, etc. belong to her as I've done nothing but fiddle around with it as she was kind enough to let me have some fun.
Despite its name, this #pizzeria is located in Park Slope, Brooklyn and was opened by a former Joe’s Pizza of Greenwich Village employee. #Pizza maker Victor Zaro worked for the famous Joe’s pizzeria 🍕 for nearly 15 years before opening his own pizzeria in 2004. Pino Pozzuoli Sr. (the owner of Joe’s which has been in business since 1975) was not happy when he found out that Zaro opened his own shop and years later filed a lawsuit when Zaro changed the logo on his #storefront to mirror the one Joe’s has on his Carmine Street Shop. Just recently Judge Cohan ruled that his newer #signage was too similar and that Zaro had to change it but could keep using the name “Joe’s Pizza of the Village” because it had been used for so long and uses “generic” words. The ruling was: “Plaintiff does not have exclusive use over “Famous” or “of the Village”. These are generic enough terms so that plaintiff may not bar defendants from continuing to use that they have employed for over a decade.”
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Our photo was taken in 2010 before Zaro changed his signage to mimic Joe’s Carmine Street location and we wonder if he had only kept this #fontastic sign if all this litigation could have been avoided.
Picture taken 2/4/21
PetPeople, Chagrin Shoe Repair, Chagrin Cleaners & Tailors, "Barber Shop", Paradise Flower Market, Bowl of Pho, T-Mobile, Pie-O-Nine Greens,
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I couldn't fit the whole storefront into a single shot. I at least did find a part of the parking lot where it didn't seem many people parked (so I didn't have cars blocking the storefront), despite being fairly close to the entrance.
This store is listed as being built in 1969. The building originally housed a Kaufmann's department store. In 1986, Kaufmann's moved to a former Gimbels store at the nearby Beaver Valley Mall (that store closed as Macy's in March 2017). After Kaufmann's left this store, the top level was converted to Kmart and the bottom level was converted to Giant Eagle supermarket. Kmart closed in December 2014 and remains empty as of Spring 2017.
Giant Eagle - former Kaufmann's department store - Rochester, Pennsylvania
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Ozark is part of the 'Main Street' imitative n Arkansas. A program setup to rejuvenate the downtown areas of the small and older cities. They have a lot of work to do. On this day, it was raining and overcast. Unfortunately, we don't always get the weather our way.
Two storefronts in North Kolkata - one for mobile phone hardware and software, and another for clothing. Both appear to be happy to be small, and set clientelle.
In honor of Debbie Harry’s 77th birthday today (she was born on July 1, 1945) we are highlighting Globe Slicers on the Bowery where in the early part of their career, three members of the band Blondie including Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, and Gary Valentine lived in a loft space located on one floor of the three-story building at 266 Bowery, above Globe Slicers, which has been in business since 1947. @christein has said that the entire rent for the building was around $300/month. The loft became the band’s unofficial headquarters and where @blondieofficial would also rehearse.
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Globe Slicers specializes in sales and repairs of slicing machines, mixers, meat grinders, scales and saws . When we interviewed the 2nd-generation owner for our book “Store Front II-A History Preserved” (swipe left for 2nd photo of Dan inside the shop) he told us that even though his family owns the building, business has declined greatly due to the poor economy especially since they rely heavily on supplying restaurants and so many restaurants have closed in recent years.
From BioShock Infinite's floating city of Columbia: The Bank of the Prophet.
Here's a whole slew of views for everyone who didn't get to Brickworld Chicago to see it in person. Songbird of course, isn't new. But he has a much more appropriate perch.
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Cheyenne Diner was in business from 1940 until April 2008. The stainless steel and glass-brick clad #diner was forced to close when the owner, Spiros Kasimis, lost his lease in order to make way for a nine-story apartment building. We loved this #vintage diner with its amazing #neon #signage using a unique #font. The photo was taken in 2004 and appears in our book "Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York". We know that many photographers visited this diner because it was located across the street from B&H Photo @bhphoto on Ninth Avenue in Midtown.
This #pizza shop immediately caught our eye because of its #vintage Coca-Cola #privilegesign. This #signage was prevalent in the 1930s and 1940s when the Coca-Cola company would give store owners the sign for free in exchange for the agreement to sell Coca-Cola products. Sadly, many of these privilege signs have disappeared in the face of modernization and conformity.
Sony A6300 + Zeiss Touit 2.8/12
Jincheon, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea
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