Help Identify this SIGN !

[ctalmadg]

That building's sign - I believe the sign says MENS - LADIES - ??

Working with a local historian to try and identify this building/sign.

Thanks!!!!

 

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[Mackaydon]

Was the pic taken in Honeoye Falls?
Don.....

 

[laralucine]

Mens' - Ladies' Furnishings (clothing/accessories)

 

[ctalmadg]

Was the pic taken in Honeoye Falls?
Don.....

No - this is Old Forge, NY in the ADK

 

[creskol]

Send your photo and inquiry to these folks: https://www.adkhistorycenter.org/schroon.html

 

[A2coins]

Wonder what kind of camera was used that looks old lol

 

[ctalmadg]

1920s - a plate view camera.

 

[bradyboy]

is that chopped wood in front of the building?
maybe a stop for a steam engine, looks like a rr depot
brady

 

[Fourman110]

Is it

https://www.google.com/search?q=Old...JA_enUS788US788&hl=en-US#imgrc=Yp7zYXxl1mQ6_M

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Hope you get the answer you're looking for.

Dave

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Cool old photo!

 

[ctalmadg]

better photo

 

[Reanm8er]

Nice photo CT! A real mystery.

The building looks too small to be a mercantile, but the large display windows out front say different. It
does look like cordwood stacked around the building. I don't see a railroad track and judging by
the vintage of the cars, the railroads would have already been burning coal by then. Perhaps it
takes that much firewood to keep a building warm through an Adirondack winter. Especially with
the large windows in the front. I can't see a chimney on the building but it must have had one.
Maybe my imagination but the last two letters look like CK? Note the concrete walkway, implies
a high end business.

Best wishes and good luck

 

[cw0909]

found the same photos at the goodsell museum
facebook pg, and a map @ historic map works
maybe if you ID the owner of building, it will
lead to more info on the sign

https://www.facebook.com/GoodsellMuseum/photos/a.397974636943100/665965656810662/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/GoodsellMuseum/photos/a.397974636943100/909525175788041/?type=3&theater

Old Forge, Atlas: Herkimer County 1906, New York Historical Map

i was thinking maybe this company is on the sign
https://www.northcountryatwork.org/archive-items/old-forge-drygoods-company-store-in-old-forge/

some info on dry goods stores in old forge
you would have to buy book to read
https://books.google.com/books?id=w...d forge&pg=PT82#v=onepage&q=dry goods&f=false