Bizarre Weegee Reference of the Day…

NY Times article (this link to the article, may or may not work) about someone suing a Bronx wedding photographer, to interestingly, re-create a wedding, published 11/02/2011:

Mr. Remis is suing H & H Photographers, a 65-year-old studio known fondly among thousands of former and current Bronx residents because it chronicled their weddings, bar mitzvahs and communions.

One of the two founders, Curt Fried, escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna in September 1939 as a 15-year-old and was drafted into the United States Army, where he learned to shoot pictures assisting cameramen along the legendary Burma Road supply line to China during World War II. Mr. Fried recalled that in the late 1940s, Arthur Fellig, the celebrated street photographer known as Weegee, twice sought work at the studio when he needed money, but was turned down because he did not own a suit.

That might be true in the late 1920s or 1930s, (even the 1950s is not impossible) but not the 1940s. In July 1945, after Naked City was published, Weegee was flush; at the pinnacle of his fame and fortune. In November 1946, Weegee’s People was published… And he was in California for a few years in the late 1940s… So, in the late 1940s, Weegee was in California, and not only owned a suit, but did not need money…