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<description><![CDATA[This subject of faded signs painted on the sides of old buildings has been done many times over by many photographers and observers. The subject is, I believe, verging on cliché if it has not crossed that threshold already. Nevertheless, I am attracted to this subject because I have long felt that buildings which house places of business should have a plaque or sign of some sort listing what businesses have occupied this space, and when. Many times I try to find a restaurant or store that I visited a year earlier, only to find the store gone. Adding to the disconnect is the fact that no one in the neighborhood has any memory of the previous establishment. Not even the employees of the new place know what business filled the space earlier.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Harriet Hubbard]]></title>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:20:13 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Farber Braid Company]]></title>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:25:53 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[A Bank]]></title>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:23:37 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Forge Hardware, Astoria]]></title>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:24:57 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Queensboro Plaza]]></title>
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 <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.sorabji.com/pictures/Faded_Signs/IMG_2406.JPG.html"><img border="0" src="http://www.sorabji.com/pictures/d/67137-4/IMG_2406.JPG" width="250" height="188"/></a><br/>This faded sign at Queensboro Plaza was revealed after a building was demolished. I can only make out the last line of this, which appears to read NY STATE [something] EMPLOYMENT BUREAU / ADVANCE SIGN CO.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:06:10 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Hannes Taylor Co., N.Y.]]></title>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:04:23 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[McDonald's, 57th Street, NYC]]></title>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:25:33 -0400</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:00:31 -0400</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:57:51 -0400</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:16:46 -0500</pubDate>
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