Howard's Pen Shop 150 No. Broadway

[halfhyde]

I just found a Sheaffer Fineline mechanical pencil in my stash that carries some neat advertising:

 

It has on the upper pearlie section a faint red quill pen and:

 

HOWARD'S PEN SHOP

ALL MAKES OF PENS REPAIRED

150 NO. BROADWAY

STATIONARY GIFTS FOUNTAIN PENS GREETING CARDS

 

I tried Googling it but found nothing. Does anyone know anything about this shop?

 

Thanks,

 

Michael Little

Phoenix, Arizona

HALFHYDE on ebay

 

 

[welch]

"150 No. Broadway" is not an address in Manhattan. We have "Broadway" and "West Broadway", but I don't remember seeing a North Broadway...and I was a taxi driver long, long ago.

[tmenyc]

Correct...We also have East Broadway. Welch, been awhile since you've been on the Lower East Side? Let's go! But Broadway is a continuous road, NY9, from Bowling Green at the bottom of Manhattan to the center of Albany, going through every town on the west side of the Hudson on its way and named Broadway in most of them. So, in New York State alone it could be lots of places...

 

Tim

Edited December 21, 2014 by tmenyc

[welch]

...and according to Jimmy Durante, if you follow "old Broad-way" far enough you come to Fort Madison, Iowa, you'll arrive at the Sheaffer Pen Company, which up to now didn't know it was on Broad-way...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7xaKZf9Ew#t=29

[tmenyc]

...I forgot Old Broadway! That's in Manhattan too! I don't think it was Jimmy's block, but it's there all right. Maybe that's the one that goes to Iowa.

 

Tim

[jjlax10]

There is also this address:

 

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=150%20north%20broadway%20lindenhurst%20ny

 

Out in Long Island. Really could be anywhere though.

[halfhyde]

Just curious...why are you guys assuming that the address must be NYC? I am sure that lots of cities have a Brodway. We even have one here in Phoenix