PM, August 31, 1941
Holiday Accidents
took their toll as motorists started on their Labor Day week end… the Motor Vehicle Bureau says about 40 will die before Tuesday in New York State.
1941
“Weegee has a Salon”
“Don’t Leave Now”; Ink Spots; “Slim” West; Jimmie Davis; Decca (25378 B); Publication date: August 27, 1941
PM, August 27, 1941, p. 1
“Storm Ties Up Subways…5 Pages
This inferno-like scene is one of the results of tortential rains that wept New York, causing the worst subway tie-up in history. A lightning bolt hit a gas main in a subway excavation, dropped an auto into the resulting cave-in, stated a three-alarm fire… (PM Photo by Irving Haberman)”
“The Weather Bureau also termed 2.13 inches of rain in that brief spectacular on and one-half hours “extensive precipitation.”” p. 15
PM, August 27, 1941, pp. 15-18 (Photos by Irving Haberman and Gene Badger)
PM, August 27, 1941, pp. 14-15
PM, August 27, 1941, p. 14
“Weegee Has a Salon: Arthur Fellig, the night-prowling cameraman who turns in many of PM’s choicest pictures of fires, wrecks, rescues and crimes, is having a one-man show of his own at the Photo League, 31 E. 21st St. The exhibit will run through Sept. 6.”
“Ring Telephone Ring” Ink Spots; Buck Ram; Peter Tinturin; Decca (25378 A); Publication date: August 27, 1941
“…And Not One Was Lost”
“Gotta Find My Baby”; Doctor Clayton; Joe Clayton; Bluebird (B-8901-B); Publication date: November 11, 1941
745 Moved to New Prison And Not One Was Lost
[$20,000,000 had the same buying power as $387,028,571 in October 2022.]
PM, November 11, 1941, p. 18
Waxy Gordon…
“Doctor Clayton Blues”; Doctor Clayton; Joe Clayton; Bluebird (B-8901-A); Publication date: November 11, 1941
“…Vote Early and Often!”
PM, November 4, 1941
“This is the old tombs.”
“I’m a Prisoner”; Eddie Boyd and His Chess Men; E. Boyd; Chess (1606); 1955
PM, November 7, 1941 (Photos by Irving Haberman)
Prisoners Go to the New ‘Tombs’ Some Dark Night Soon – Shhh!
“Jail Bird”; Joe Mitchell; King Curtis; Monarch (MO-703)
“Murder by Suggestion”
“How About That Mess”; Lucky Millinder And His Orchestra; William Anderson; Decca (4099 A); Publication date: November 6, 1941
PM, November 6, 1941
Murder by Suggestion:
“Let Me Off Uptown”; Lucky Millinder And His Orchestra; Trevor Bacon; Earl Bostic; Redd Evans; Decca (4099 B); Publication date: November 6, 1941
Screenshots, “Ladies in Retirement,” 1941
Ladies in Retirement, 1941
PM, November 7, 1941 (By Louise Levitas)
Some Crackpot Ladies Make Murder
“That’s All”; Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra; Rosetta Tharpe; Decca (48057 A); Publication date: November 6, 1941
“We got the Mayor out of bed to pose for pictures.”
“I’m Gonna Vote for a Democrat”; Yogi Yorgesson; Johnny Duffy and The Scandahoovians; Harry Stewart; Capitol (2135); 1952
Re-elected, and relaxed: The Mayor and Mrs. La Guardia at 1: a.m. today.
La Guardia Sees 4 Years of Hell
New Photographers Rout Mayor Out of Bed for Victory Pictures
PM, November 5, 1941 (Photos by Steven Derry, Ray Platnick, John De Biase)
Orderly Crowd Turns Out for La Guardia’s Re-election
We took this picture at 1 a.m. La Guardia said to caption it: “We got the Mayor out of bed to pose for pictures.”
This is the election night crowd at Times Square, watching for results from the ‘Times’ bulletin board. The crowd was well behaved – in fact this election was the most orderly in the city’s history, with no violence reported.
“Get Out And Vote” (part 1); Johnny Standly; Jimmy Sheldon’s Orchestra; Johnny Standley; Leon Pober; Capitol (3544); 1956
“I make my songs as I go along”
“New Black Snake Moan”; Lead Belly; Huddie Ledbetter; Melotone (M 13327-B); 1935
PM, November 2, 1941, pp. 48-49
For $100 You Can Your Picture Made
By Man Who Put Horns on K. Hepburn…George Platt Lynes…
Ralph Steiner
PM, November 2, 1941, pp. 48-49 [$100 in November 1941 had the same buying power as $1,927 in September 2022.]
“Four Day Worry Blues”; Lead Belly; Huddie Ledbetter; Melotone (M 13327-A); 1935
PM, November 3, 1941, p. 11 ( Photos by Martin Harris)
The Many Friends of Leadbelly Stage a Folksong Fest for Him
“De Kalb Blues”; Lead Belly; Musicraft (226-B); 1939
PM, November 3, 1941, p. 18
About Murdered Pete Panto And the Election of a Mayor
By Tom O’Connor
…until they dug up his bones in a vacant field near Lyndhurst, N.J…
…Pete Panto had been murdered by Murder, Inc.
“I’m On My Last Go-Round”; Huddie Leadbelly; Bluebird (B-8981-B); 1940
“…You don’t have to say nothing. I’m the original.”
“Just Kiddin’ Around”; Artie Shaw & his Orchestra; Ray Conniff; Victor (27806-B); Publication date: October 30, 1941
PM, October 30, 1941, p. 14
The Katz Salami
In the Army Now“This is Katz’s – that’s all. Short and sweet. You don’t have to say nothing. I’m the original.”
…Now Katz’s salami is in the army – that’s right, yes. Send a salami to your boy in the army – that’s a Katz slogan.”
“Take Your Shoes Off, Baby (And Start Runnin’ Through My Mind)”; Artie Shaw & his Orchestra; Gene Austin; “Hot Lips” Page; Victor (27719-B); Publication date; October 30, 1941
“He was so scared,” she said.
“Prisionero Del Mar (‘Neath A Tropical Moon)”; Russ Morgan And His Orchestra; Luis Arcaraz; Ernesto Cortazar; Decca (4098 B); Publication date: October 27, 1941
PM, October 27, 1941
Saved: When fire swept a vacant tenement at Pitt and Broome Sts. early yesterday, families in an adjoining house fled to the street in nightclothes. Lydia Krepa, 13, took her cat Billy with her. “He was so scared,”she said. PM Photo by Weegee
PM, October 27, 1941
“Ev’ry Time”; Russ Morgan And His Orchestra; Phyllis Lynne; Hugh Martin; Ralph Blane; Decca (4069 A); Publication date: October 27, 1941
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