07 June 2012

Sokol Bros. Sign on the Ash Heap


The old Sokol Bros. Furniture building on Columbia Street in Brooklyn is all but demolished. Just a few bits of brick and the frames of a couple roller shutters left.

I peered in and what did I see laying atop the rubble but the old Sokol Bros. sign, which hung outside the furniture stores for half a century. I asked a worked what was going to be done with the sign. Would it be saved or tossed? He had no idea.

2 comments:

  1. New York on the ash heap

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  2. Puts the tune of the Sokol Fanfare in my head . Only I think it now should be rewritten as a dirge.

    (And yes, I have linked to an ELP version of Sokol Fanfare, as the actual one is not found on Youtube)

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