
- 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
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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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- Discarded Umbrella Carcasses, NYC
- Discarded Umbrella Carcasses, NYC
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- Oldsmobile in L.I.C.
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- 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
Could a brand name for condoms be any less appropriate than "FAMILY"? - Lawrence Animal Hospital
- A Field of Dead Bread
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