Long before "The Tonight Show" started featuring "Headlines", (the segment of the show running humorous advertisements and signs sent in from around the country), the Brooklyn Daily Eagle had a similar column. "Strange as it May Seem" highlighted images the Eagle photographers had taken of amusing and peculiar signs around Brooklyn. Here are a few from the Fall of 1933.
Maybe the O stands for oil.
Their office is right down the hall from Meaney and Ruff Esq.
Seen outside a Dry Cleaning Establishment
And now, for the Dentists
That's gotta hurt
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