A few nice real estate agency images I found:
15-0673MBlack Muslim Women Dressed In White Applaud Elijah Muhammad During The Delivery Of His Annual Savior's Day Message In Chicago, 03/1974
Image by The U.S. National Archives
Original Caption: Black Muslim Women Dressed In White Applaud Elijah Muhammad During The Delivery Of His Annual Savior's Day Message In Chicago. The City Is Headquarters For The Black Muslims. Their Million Empire Includes A Mosque, Newspaper, University Restaurants, Real Estate, Bank And Variety Of Retail Stores Muhammad Died February 25, 1975, 03/1974
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-13793
Photographer: White, John H, 1945-
Subjects:
African-American
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois, United States)
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=556245
Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.
For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html
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Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
A Portion Of A Crowd Of Some 10,000 Muslims Applaud Elijah Muhammad During The Delivery Of His Annual Savior's Day Message In Chicago, 03/1974
Image by The U.S. National Archives
Original Caption: A Portion Of A Crowd Of Some 10,000 Muslims Applaud Elijah Muhammad During The Delivery Of His Annual Savior's Day Message In Chicago. The City Is Headquarters For The Black Muslims. Their Million Empire Includes A Mosque, Newspaper, University Restaurants, Real Estate, Bank And Variety Of Retail Stores Muhammad Died February 25, 1975, 03/1974
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-13791
Photographer: White, John H, 1945-
Subjects:
African-American
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois, United States)
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=556243
Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.
For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html
Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Hotblack Desiato
Image by Dean Ayres
I came across the name Hotblack Desiato when I was walking along Upper Street in Islington, and there it was on an estate agent's hoarding. I thought, "What a cheek! They've nicked the name off Douglas Adams".
Then I found this on the web;
"I came across the name Hotlblack Desiato when I was driving along Upper Street in Islington, and there it was on a house For Sale sign. It was the name of a new (real) estate agent . I thought it was the most wonderful name I'd ever seen, and wished I could come up with names as good as that.
I couldn't get the name out of my mind, and when I was trying to figure out the name for the rockstar who was spending a year dead for tax reasons, every name I thought of was not nearly as good as Hotblack Desiato. So in the end I gave up and phoned the agency and spoke - as it happened - to Geoff Hotblack. I asked him if I could use their name and he was, as you might imagine, quite surprised but said I certainly could.
And so I did. I spoke to Geoff quite often after that, in his capacity as an estate agent. And one day he told me that they had had quite a few calls from people saying hadn't they got a bit of a nerve naming their agency after a character in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
So, yes, it certainly does work both ways."
Douglas Adams.
