Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Wallet Card with a Typhoon Fence

I've been finding a lot of old fence signs lately. This one on the property of a private house in East Rockaway, L.I.. It has two old phone numbers on it! SUnset 5-5555, and TUrner 4-3333.

Typhoon Industries was founded in Lindenhurst, L.I. in 1959 by former employees of Tornado Industries of Seaford, L.I. Tornado sued Typhoon claiming the new company's name was trade-name infringement, but lost the suit. Typhoon appears to have gone out of business sometime in the early 2000s.

1 comment:

  1. Interesting post with cool details. I'm wondering if a Typhoon fence could survive a typhoon. Enjoy the time all!

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