The signs, as AI reproductions. Tap one for its page, photos of the originals and the record.
The specific things that would move this search. If you have one, or know who might, get in touch.
1. The person who drew the cartoons
The copyright cards name Joseph Schorr as author of the print. Nobody has yet said who drew the figures. A signed sketch, a studio name, a family story or a credit in a clip art book would settle it. What is known so far.
2. The Laundesigns brochure
The 1961 and 1962 trade ads offered a free color brochure picturing the whole line. No copy has turned up in any library or trade catalog collection searched so far. A dealer, laundromat owner or sign shop may have kept one in a file drawer.
3. Two signs nobody has photographed
TAKE IT EASY WITH THAT LOAD (a long-faced policeman) and EXTRACTING, ANYONE? (a dentist holding a pulled tooth in a pair of pliers) are registered but have never been seen in a photograph. A picture of either one would be a first.
4. The shop itself
Any photograph of Schorr Sign Service at 67-15 or 67-43 Myrtle Avenue, Glendale, from the 1950s through the 1970s: storefront, truck, letterhead, invoice or ad in a Queens paper.
5. Original signs
Surviving signs in any condition, still on a wall or in a basement. Photos of the front, back, edges and the maker line in the caption box are the most useful. Some may be bought for the archive.
6. Memories
Anyone who owned, ran or worked in a coin laundry in the early 1960s, sold equipment to one, or remembers these signs on a particular wall. Where it was and roughly when is enough to start.