Ghost Sign, Park Slope

Michael Gorodess-Commercial Photographer

Some old signage has been revealed at the Triangle Sports building on Flatbush and 5th Ave. What caught my eye was the sign on the Flatbush Ave. sign. The 1940s tax photo shows that it was for M. Gorodess, Commercial Photographer. 

Michael Gorodess was a commercial photographer working in Brooklyn from the early 1900s until at least 1940. I found him in the 1910, 1920 and 1940 census.

He seems to be most active in the 1920s. I found the below advertisement in numerous editions of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle during that time period.

“For the Business Man” 😆

Searching online I found some of his work:

Photograph of Martha Berry, faculty, and students having Thanksgiving Dinner-November, 1909. Source: Berry College Digital Archives.
Hotel Cawley on Main Street-Somerville, N.J., 1909. Source: Rutgers University Community Repository.
Long Island Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street at the corner of Clinton Street, 1915. Source: Brooklyn Public Library/Center For Brooklyn History.
Caisan East River Tunnel Construction, March 1915. Source: Cowan’s Auctions.
1115 Bedford Street Automobile and Engineering Institute and YMCA, 1930. Source: Brooklyn Public Library/Center For Brooklyn History.