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JayI was going through a book called "South Street, A Maritime History of New York" and I found something interesting. As most of you know Old Judge cards were issued with cigarettes produced by Goodwin & Co. The address that the company resided at during that period in the late 1880s was "the foot of Grand Street East River New York". In the book that I was looking at they had an appendix in the back that provided an 1852 directory, by address, of all companies residing on South Street. On 153 South Street, close to the East River, just south of where the Brooklyn Bridge would be built, was E. Goodwin and Brother and W. H. Goodwin who were listed as Tobacconists. I have no proof but I would guess that this was the seed from which Goodwin & Co sprouted. The later address of Goodwin & Co. on Grand and the East River was just north of this address along the eastern coast of Manhattan.