King Bee Building

1709 Washington Avenue

Barely visible on the building's west face are the faded remains of numerous advertising signs. Among the more legible ones are ads for Wrigley's Spearmint gum and King Bee Hats (located 7 blocks further east.) A helpful reader notes that was previously known as the 1709 Building; his father worked for the Superior Typesetting Company on the 8th and 9th floors, a company that went out of business in the 1970s as computers took over the work.

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