Ghost Sign-Southwest corner of 6th Avenue and 14th Street. I took this photo about 2 years ago, and did some initial research into these ghost signs, but I gave up after finding very little.
This old faded ad is for Russeks—located at 493-495 Fulton St. at the corner of Bridge Street in the Downtown Brooklyn/Fulton Mall area. Russeks had stores in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and most importantly
This past month I was pleasantly surprised to come across this ad for Pomeroy—I thought I had found all the obvious ghost signs in the Fulton Mall area. The ad is located at 208
The ghost sign for Super B Drugs, located at 275 Canal Street at the corner of Broadway, is now no more. This photo is from October 2018. Checking google street view it shows the
London Character Shoes, established in 1920 in New York, were a chain of men’s shoe stores in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In 1937 they were acquired by the Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Company of Massachusetts.
6th Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets, Manhattan, New York. Weber and Heilbroner were a men’s clothing retailer founded in 1902 by Milton Weber and Louis Heilbroner. The original Weber and Heilbroner stores were