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New and Old in Brooklyn, NY

#8 from bottom: soon to need ambulance

Must be dead battery on that 26/7 unless just posing at the crank

The car looks huge. I wonder if that isn't some sort of composite picture.

Re: Old & New:
Old... Goods and services for sale.
New.... Drugs, tattoos, and what? Credit?
I'd rather be in the "Old"!

#13, the big store with the horse and buggy looks to be a bicycle shop with the one in the window. It's interesting to note that they have the upstairs windows positioned so as to create airflow.

The 3rd photo from the top makes me wonder what ever happened to the Pep-O-Mint advertising car! One of a kind I’m sure.
It must have been driven since it has tail lights on it. The body builder who made it did a good job building it.

Unreal.... Pep-o-Mint is still Life Savers Brand
The first major Life Savers building was a five-story concrete headquarters and manufacturing plant built in Port Chester, New York, in 1920. That is close where I grew up.

Former Life: In 1920, the Life Savers Candy Company built its five-story headquarters and manufacturing building here, occupying a whopping 245,000 square feet. At the peak of production in the 1960s, the factory pumped out 616 million rolls a year of the candy with the hole. It’s said you could tell what flavor was being made based on the aroma that wafted from the factory. In 1984, by which time demand for sugary candies had declined, Life Savers’ parent company, Nabisco Brands, closed the plant and moved operations to Michigan. The building has since been added to the National Register of Historic Places. --
New Life: In 1985, First Hartford Partners bought the green-and-white factory for $2 million. They converted it to 199 condominium units, many with sleeping lofts, cutting a giant atrium into the middle of the structure for light but maintaining many exterior terra-cotta details. The building was plagued by construction problems and political scandal (six local politicians were investigated for alleged insider deals on the condos), but the building has since become a symbol of Port Chester’s renaissance.

Here are a few more special advertising cars

Beautiful beautiful beautiful. Thanks Tom and others