...Gunsmith Signs...New York...1930s...

[ParadiseRoad]

...gunsmith shops on Center Market Place in the Little Italy section of New York City in the late 1930s...the man with the camera was a famous photographer named WeeGee...he lived in the apartment above the sign and used it as a vantage point for street scene photos...

...photo of the buildings now...

 

[the ringo kid]

Have anything like that today, and some idjets would have a heart attack.

 

[Absalom]

Read this article about the gun shops there. Being right across from the back door of the old NYPD HQ made it the ideal location. I have an old 1915 NYPD Colt PP that lettered to Audley which at the time was located at 8 Centre Market Place.

Jeremiah's Vanishing New York: Guns of Centre Market

 

[Cyrano]

Anybody else remember the Iver Johnson retail sporting goods store in downtown Boston in the 1950s, with a big, gilded shotgun hanging outside it?

 

[oldRoger]

I have been in the H H Harris store in Chicago one of the largest S&W distributors of the time, very near CPD headquarters. There was no sign that I remember.