A couple of blue-and-white mid-century ads appear one on top of the other off Lexington Avenue in Murray Hill. They’re strangely (yet nicely) preserved, probably because a neighboring building covered them up for decades.
Doehler Metal Furniture owned the building these ads appear on, on 32nd Street. Based on a look through online newspaper archives, they seem to have had a lot of contracts with the army during World War II. 
Manning-Bowman had a showroom on the seventh floor. The Connecticut-based electronics firm made things like waffle irons and coffee makers.
Tags: building ads, Doehler Metal Furniture Company, faded ads on buildings, Lexington and 32nd Street, Manning Bowman, McGraw Edison, old ads, Park and 32nd Street
May 25, 2009 at 3:08 am |
Great shots!
May 25, 2009 at 3:16 am |
Thanks! I should direct readers to http://fadingad.wordpress.com for all things building-ad related.
December 25, 2011 at 2:41 pm |
I have a metal Chest of drawers i was wondering how old it is.
December 6, 2012 at 1:18 am |
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