HIckory 6-7000. Tully & DiNapoli in Flushing
FLushing 7-9248. Meriden Monuments.
Meriden Monuments is near Flushing Cemetery, where on this day I found another unicorn: A working payphone.
NEvins 9-9389
I've seen this exact a number of times. I assume it's NEvins but could it possibly be NEptune?
PEnnsylvania 6
This restaurant, located near Penn Station in the old PEnnsylvania eXchange name area, named itself after the old eXchange. Well played, I say. Well played.
Pandemic Hair, 2020-2021
Pandemic Hair, 2020-2021
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The Road to Covid Corner
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RAvenswood-9-9000
I spotted this one years ago but somehow neglected to include it in this collection until June, 2020. RAvenswood-9-9000 is located at 47-50 Van Dam Street, at what is now an Enterprise Truck Rental facility. In today's code the old RAvenswood number connects to Krinos Foods, in the Bronx.
Pandemic Hair, 2020-2021
I wonder what this was... Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Massacred Yellow Cab. Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Massacred Yellow Cab. Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Not sure what this is, atop Wasco Discount Auto Supply in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Marathon Checker Cab. Box House Hotel, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
The Box House Hotel in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, uses these classic Marathon Checker Cab Specials to chauffer its guests. Elsewhere on Sorabji.com I have an action shot of a Marathon Checker Cab cruising the streets of Manhattan in 1965.
Marathon Checker Cab. Box House Hotel, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
The Box House Hotel in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, uses these classic Marathon Checker Cab Specials to chauffer its guests. Elsewhere on Sorabji.com I have an action shot of a Marathon Checker Cab cruising the streets of Manhattan.
Sad, defeated old taxi cab on Steinway Street.
Thunderbird in Sunnyside
Mirror
In the back yard of an abandoned house
Discarded Umbrella Carcasses, NYC
Discarded Umbrella Carcasses, NYC
Discarded Umbrella Carcasses, NYC
Discarded Umbrella Carcasses, NYC
Discarded Umbrella Carcasses, NYC
Plymouth. Queens Boulevard.
Ford. Queens Boulevard.
Not sure what this is/was. Sunnyside Yard.
Discarded Umbrella Carcasses, NYC
Fiat 500 LE
Discarded Umbrella Carcasses, NYC
Wrecked Geo in L.I.C.
Magnum Super Bee
Volkswagen in the air
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Oldsmobile in L.I.C.
Discarded Umbrella Carcasses, NYC
Discarded Umbrella Carcasses, NYC
Discarded Umbrella Carcasses, NYC
181 Everywhere
181 Everywhere
STillwell 4-7138. O'Loughlin Florist
I had seen an O'Loughlin Florist sign with a STillwell Exchange before. This other sign was on the side of the building.
Discarded Umbrella Carcasses, NYC
EVergreen.6-4343, Middle Village
I spotted this EVergreen.6-4343 number at the Queens Instrument Company at 62-15 Fresh Pond Road in Flushing. In today's parlance the number would be (718) 386-4343.
Hedgecock Florist, Rego Park
I spotted this old phone number on the falling-apart sign of Hedgecock Florist on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park. According to the Telephone Exchange Name Project HA stood for HAvemeyer. In today's numbering this phone number (HAvemeyer 9-9400) is (718) 429-9400.
ILlinois 7-1122. Party Time on Queens Boulevard
This ILlinois telephone exchange number lingers somewhat mysteriously over a garage door on Queens Boulevard. It is the old format phone number for Party Time, a party supply store which has evidently been at this location a long time. The modern version of their phone number is (718) 457-1122?.
CAnal 6-3790
Pictures like this have a way of making this series look like a collection of hoary old faded signs. D. spotted this CAnal Telephone Exchange at the corner of Spring and Wooster Streets. Today this phone number (212-226-7390) belongs to a company called Opening Ceremony, at 33 Howard Street. I wonder if Opening Ceremony knows that a primitive version of their phone number lingers on the side of this building at Spring and Wooster streets.
Carlos Pizza, Maspeth
Carlos Pizza in Maspeth, Queens, shows that it has been around a long time with its old school TWinings Telephone Exchange number
IN CASE OF NECESSITY CALL INdependence-1-8642
This might be my favorite exchange name sighting yet. An open-ended entreaty to those in need, this placard directs people to call INdependence 1-8642 "IN CASE OF NECESSITY". This sign is probably directed to those who might need access to the building on which this and 2 duplicate signs are displayed. Or maybe it was a religious message, and if one went to a payphone and called INdependence 1-8642 they might hear a calming recorded program or a religious exhortation. I have never seen or heard the expression "IN CASE OF NECESSITY" until now but it sounds like it is directed at those individuals in need of a restroom.
Trash Transport
On the Trash Cans
At a Parking Meter
MORSE TYPEWRITER CO.
Neighbord Co-Operate
TRYBE
On the Sidewalk![Family Condoms](../../_data/i/galleries/Signage/IMG_1457-me.JPG "Family Condoms (392 visits) Could a brand name for condoms be any less appropriate than "FAMILY"?")
Family Condoms
Could a brand name for condoms be any less appropriate than "FAMILY"?
Lawrence Animal Hospital
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