[rustcharm]

Those "Honest Ed" signs are beautiful, and remind me of the hand-painted signs I'd still see in Brooklyn in the late 60s and early 70s (probably nearing the end of the era for hand-painted signs)

[52-6F-62]

Oh that place was the thing of a bygone era, undoubtedly.

Some of those signs are probably from back then, but they retained the style right up until they closed in 2016.

The place was a godsend when I was younger—you could get hygiene products and some food items for dirt cheap.

And the sight from the street was even more wild than those hand-painted signs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_Ed%27s

[rustcharm]

Wow! The Mohel and Rabbi who performed Honest Ed's bris was Al Jolson's father: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Mirvish