Articles about Ed Sokoloff
June 7, 2019 article in Boston Globe’s Talking Points AM newsletter by Larry Edelman, Boston Globe Deputy Managing Editor
Edward Sokoloff ‘Boston’s Chinatown Restaurant Montage 2018’ on display at China Trade Center
The collage includes Civil War, Battle of Gettysburg flag (per article in Boston Globe newspaper “Reclaiming Old Glory” dated June 26, 2016). A tattered flag from National 9/11 Museum. The flag currently flown over Prospect Hill in Somerville, the original of which is purported to be the first American/Colonial flag (a/k/a Grand Union flag) flown on January 1, 1776;
Boston artist Ed Sokoloff has created a photographic montage of nostalgia that portrays more than 300 pictures of businesses no longer in business — including Worcester’s former Elwood Adams Hardware Store.
Local artist, Ed Sokoloff, shares his new historic sign montage featuring companies that are no longer in business. Local readers will appreciate the signs for the European (Boston’s North End est.1920), Anthony’s Pier Four (est.1929), Brigham’s Ice Cream (est.1914), Hilltop Steakhouse (est.1961), Howard Johnson’s (est. 1925 in Quincy), Jack and Marion’s (est. prior to 1948, per one reference), Jimmy’s Harborside (est. 1929) and Locke Ober (est.1875).
Ed reports that he is planning an update of the North End collage soon. Shown here are portions of the menu cover and two inside pages from Stella’s that opened in 1925. The menu is from the 1960’s. Take a look at the prices! I’ll have the martini for $1.10.
Mayor Marty Walsh will soon have some new artwork to cover up the bland, grey, concrete walls in his office at City Hall. Ed Sokoloff, a Newton resident and photographer with a penchant for tracking down restaurant signs and ice cream parlor logos, to create elaborate collages, just capped off his latest project which he dedicated specifically to Walsh.
This collection of dining locations was compiled and graciously donated by Edward Sokoloff.
The North End Historical Society received a unique gift in the form of a neighborhood restaurant collage by Ed Sokoloff. The contemporary artist has been photographing eateries of all types in Massachusetts for over 10 years. The North End montage was one of five initial creations by Sokoloff, intended to preserve the storefront signs and logo images.
Newton resident and retired lawyer Ed Sokoloff has spent more than a decade photographing restaurants and other food establishments around Massachusetts and grouping them into collages. This fall, he has completed five: the North End (a portion of which is shown above), Greater Boston, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and ice cream and yogurt around Massachusetts.
At 71-years-old, some people might think that’s not enough, but Sokoloff is driven by his passion for photography, and what he calls “marrying” the history of Boston—and Massachusetts—with his art, spending almost 19-hours per day on his projects.