Here are three more old phone exchanges from store signs and the side of a building. First up is this number for Bernard Charles Real Estate on Greenwich and Charles Streets. The typeface looks very 1940s.
On Thompson Street is Frank’s. Gotta love a hand-painted sign.
Finally, Sixth Avenue’s unofficial welcome-to-the-Village sign. Where have you gone, Emil Talamini? An obituary from the New York Times in 1970 describes him as “a real estate broker and investor long active in the Greenwich Village area.” RIP.
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February 24, 2013 at 12:58 am |
[…] ad underneath it that went up first, though the older ad is still unintelligible. According to Ephemeral New York, Talamini passed away in […]
April 19, 2020 at 9:57 pm |
[…] ad underneath it that went up first, though the older ad is still unintelligible. According to Ephemeral New York, Talamini passed away in 1970. His name is still here, a full 50 years later. Note the old […]