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
Ephemeral New York 
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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