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Jan 15, 2001

Hey There Fading Ad Enthusiasts and other friends!

The recent show at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center was very exciting. Thanks to all of you who showed up at the opening and thanks to all of you who have e-mailed me after reading the Times and Daily News articles. These articles will soon be posted on the site .

It's no secret that the last few months have been extremely challenging for me. In September 2000, I started a new career as an elementary school teacher- teaching movement and music to kindergarten thru second grade in a school near my home in Brooklyn. The day I got the job, I found out a tumor I had gotten removed from my rectum was malignant.

It was very small and the prognosis is excellent, thanks to self-examination, early detection, and excellent medical care. Today, the surgery is very conservative and less invasive- but the treatments are more aggressive. So I've been receiving radiation and chemo-therapy treatments since October 16, 2000 and that has been no picnic. But survival is one of my passions and I am focusing on the end result.

Please forgive me if I do not respond quickly to your e-mail. I encourage correspondence and look forward to hearing your continued feedback about the project and newly uncovered fading ads.

I am going to be adding many more images of fading ads to the site- stuff I've taken over the last four years. I am also going to start posting the images you've sent me of fading ads, as well as some other images I've created like the one above, which is a direct response to my recent round of chemotherapy.


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Past & future events:

In a date to be announced, photographs I have taken of various old movie houses in Brooklyn will be part of an exhibition which I believe is called Movie Palaces of Brooklyn at the WAH Center in Williamsburg, sponsored by Bruce Friedman from Brooklyn Cable TV's THAT'S BROOKLYN and will also include photos from Forgotten-NY's Kevin Walsh and theatre historian Cezar del Valle! Hope to see you there.

On April 29th 2001, I gave a slide show & walking tour at the WAH Center, co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Historical Society and co-hosted by the Brooklyn Borough Historian- John Manbeck.

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