and Bolet

 When I first saw this picture (from 1938 by famed photographer Berenice Abbott)  "Heins and" was cropped - all I could see was: "and Bolet" on the second sign.

  So I wasn't sure what a Bolet was ? (maybe a Bolet store like Crate and Barrel is a barrel store :).

Nope, it's Heins and Bolet

 

A little internet searching revealed that this picture was taken on Cortland street in lower Manhattan aka Radio Row.  Heins and Bolet was a radio store.  By 1961 as seen in this catalog from Ebay,

Heins and Bolet appears to have veered from radio to TV and appliances.  For example these Hamilton washers and dryers

which were made in Wisconsin, see

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/05/hamilton.html

Other stores from Radio Row like Avnet or Arrow concentrated on electronic parts and still exist today as distributors selling mostly to industry.  But Heins and Bolet didn't seem to thrive (or even survive ?) after Radio Row was demolished to make room for the World Trade Center in 1966.

here is a short clip of Radio Row in 1929 - when men wore hats (the other side of Cortland street from Heins and Bolet):

https://player.vimeo.com/video/109197452

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm