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Weegee Daily… July 29, 1940… End of a Fast Auto Ride

July 29, 2013
1940, Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, July 29, 1940
End of a Fast Auto Ride
Racing 40 miles an hour down Battery Pl., at the foot of West St., near the Aquarium, this car dived into the Hudson about 3:30 a.m. today. Battery Parker breeze-seekers called police. The derrick brought up the car; out fell a body with papers bearing the name George Evans Lyonds, 122 Hone St., Kingston N.Y.
Photo by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, July 29, 2013
End of a Fast Walk
Walking 4 miles an hour down Battery Pl. at the foot of West St., near Castle Clinton at about 6:30 p.m. today… The Merchant Marine memorial brought up a body…
Photo by Ceegee

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Weegee Daily… July 28, 1940… Weegee, the Wag…

July 28, 2013
1940, Weegee Daily

PM Newspaper, 1940
PM Daily, July 28, 1940
“They’d Sooner Be at the Beach But, Heat or No Heat, Jobs Are Scarce”

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Weegee Daily, July 28, 2013
Where in the world was Weegee’s darkroom in 1940? Don’t think he was still using the NY Post darkroom… I could be wrong, but I think it’s here (5 Centre Market Place).
The above is one of the funniest fotos ever published in PM. An entire page spread, an entire centerfold occupied with ten photos of workers sweating while they work, of hard working WPA construction workers, a coal shoveler, a cook, a baker, PM’s stereotypist, even the Mayor (with “coat off, tie loose, hair scraggly… looks pretty wilted”) concludes with “Weegee, the wag, finished up the day by taking his own picture in the darkroom…”
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73 Years Ago Today… Detective Examines Board and Glass…

June 22, 2013
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Unidentified Photographers, New York Daily News, June 21, 1940

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New York Daily News, June 22, 1940
Weegee or Unidentified Photographer, Detective examines board and glass shattered in blast at 17 Battery Place, June 22, 1940

From a Midtown Manhattan Museum’s website:
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Weegee, Investigator, (who looks like & is Weegee) at Manhattan Police Hdqs, looks over fragments of broken glass, & metal from scene of bombings, for clues, in 2 bombings at German Consulate Bldg, & Daily Worker, note piece of wood, from German Consulate Bldg bombing, June 1940

Except for the stripes on the tie going in the opposite direction, that’s a pretty close match… Fellig playing and/or posing as investigator/detective…

Weegee Daily… November 24, 1940

November 24, 2012
1940, Weegee Daily
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Weegee, PM Daily, November 24, 1940

2 Die in Wrecked Car
Dr. Albion O. Bernstein, 28, interne, and Miss. Helen Ayers, nurse at Beth Israel Hospital, were drowned early yesterday when his car plunged over the string piece and into the East River at Pier 60, East 21st St. Picture shows emergency squad men lifting Miss Ayers from the car. Photo by Weegee


Ceegee, Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – approximate location…

0 Die in Wrecked Car…Picture shows the remnants of what was perhaps, Pier 60, East 21st St. and the East River… Photo by Ceegee

Footnote, or, after a few minutes of Googling:
“The Bernstein Award
This national award, endowed by the late Morris J. Bernstein in memory of his son, a physician who died in an accident while answering a hospital call in 1940, is given to a physician or scientist who has made a significant contribution in medicine, surgery, or disease prevention during the previous calendar year.
The award consists of a check for $2000.00 and a citation. Information on the MSSNY Continuing Medical Education Program can be obtained here…”

(from the Internet… Albion O. Bernstein memorial Volume, 1943)


Ceegee, Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – approximate location…