PM, October 1, 1941, p. 12
“…and the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones…
But those were Foreign Children and it didn’t really matter.”
1941
Labor Days
PM, August 31, 1941, p. 18
“Holiday Accidents took their toll as motorists started their Labor Day week end. Early yesterday Joseph Morris and his brother’s wife, Charlotte were killed when this car overturned in Bronx Park. The driver, Anthony Morris, Navy purchasing agent, was injured. Three other auto deaths had been listed last night; the Motor Vehicle Bureau says about 40 will die before Tuesday in New York State.”
PM, August 31, 1941 (photo by Martin Harris)
“Union Members vacationing…Vivian Cherry…”
PM, 1944, p. 13 (photo by John De Biase)
“Here’s the Labor Day Rush at the Holland Tunnel
Our photographer waited around at the Holland Tunnel yesterday to get the Labor Day traffic…”
PM, 1944 (photo by Stanley Kubrick)
“Bronx Motorists Strike Oil
Bogart’s Service Station at 164th St. and Jerome Ave. he Bronx, was a Labor Day rarity – it had gasoline to sell. At 10 a.m. yesterday cars were lined up there for more than a block.”
PM, September 3, 1947, p. 13 (photos by Irving Haberman)
“Harlem Crowds Turn Out For West Indies Day…”
“Weegee has a Salon” and “Storm Ties Up Subways…” – 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.”
“ran wild”
PM, March 27, 1941, pp. 14, 15 (photos by David Eisendrath, Jr)
1001 Afternoons in New York
by Ben Hecht
Daily Star, June 1925
Democracy in Jersey City… And Death on the Bowery…
PM, March 14, 1941, pp.12-14 (photo by Steve Derry)
New York Herald, March 1896
New York Herald, March 1896
The Sun, November 1897
The Sun, June 1898
The Sun, July 1899
The New York Press, October 1902
Evening Telegram, December 1908
The New York Press, March 1913
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 1914
The New York Press, March 1915
New York Call, March 1915
Evening Telegram, March 1915
“It Can Happen Here…”
PM, March 13, 1941, p.32 (photo by Ray Platnick)
(Third Ave., looking south from 14th St.)
PM, March 13, 1941, p.22
Meet John Doe, by Frank Capra, 1941 (slightly cropped)
“If You Want to Know How Weegee Gets Pictures Like These…”
PM, March 9, 1941, pp. 48-51
“If You Want to Know How Weegee Gets Pictures Like These See Ralph Steiner’s Story on Next Page”
“This Man Started His Crime Career at 12”
PM, March 5, 1941, p. 32
This Man Started His Crime Career at 12
“…by forging his mother’s name to an excuse for absence at school. Now at 23 George Joseph Cvek, a pock-marked hitch-hiker, finds himself handcuffed between detectives behind bars – a confessed thief, rapist and killer (On pages 12 and 13, his clinical profile.) PM Pohoto by Weegee.”
PM, March 5, 1941, pp. 12-13
Portrait of a Killer: George Cvek Got a Bad Start and Kept Going
By John Kobler
“George Joseph Cvek (pronounced Civic), who admits having assaulted and robbed 15 women, raped 3 of them, and murdered a 16th, is one of the most unimaginative rogues ever filed in a Rogues’ Gallery…”
Daily Argus, March 4, 1941, p.1 (Associated Press Photo)
Brooklyn Eagle, March 4, 1941, p. 1 (Wide World Photo)
George Joseph Cvek, described by the NY Times as a 23-year-old “hitch-hike robber,” was arrested Monday, March 3, 1941 in a ” in a cheap midtown Manhattan hotel” (New Mills Hotel at 36th and 7th Ave., WI sconson 7-3254)…
One of the greatest lesser-known Weegee photos, printed as a full page in PM, shows how great the symbiotic relationship between photographer and newspaper…
(To be continued…)
“A N.Y. Police Reporter’s Impressions of Washington D.C.”
PM, March 2, 1941, p50
A N.Y. Police Reporter’s Impressions of Washington D.C.
Story and Pictures by WEEGEE
“Things were quiet all week in New York. Nothing was popping. There were no big time murders, no roasts (people burned to death at tenement house fires) and no dry divers (people jumping out of windows and off ledges) for me to photograph. So I thought I would go to Washington and do a picture story on what goes on there.
I went on the poor man’s Pullman. I was in no hurry and besides on a bus you can always meet a nice little cutie to keep you company and hold hands with.
At the bus terminal on West 50th St., in the basement, sandwiched in between two doors was an automatic photo machine. I dropped a dime in and had my photo taken. I got the photo in about two minutes. This was the first time I received a mechanical insult…
Inside the juke box was going strong with the Andrews Sisters singing Johnny Peddler… As we left the place the Andrews Sisters in a whiz-bang finale gave everything they had with Beat Me Daddy Eight to a Bar assisted by Woody Herman on Decca record No. 3454…
The Madam then read my palm, asked me the date of my birth, told me I was born under the sign of Cancer, was a very determined person, fickle, but has a kind heart and could make some woman very happy…
The Madam’s crack about me being a salesman reminded me that I was in Washington to do a picture story… so I jumped in a taxi and in an hour made some…
I am glad to get back to New York.”
PM, March 2, 1941, p50
Andrews Sisters, Johnny Peddler (I Got), Andrews Sisters; Vic Schoen And His Orchestra; Lew Brown; Laurindo De Almeida; Ubirajara Nesdan; August 3, 1940
Woody Herman And His Orchestra; Beat Me Daddy, Eight to a Bar; Woody Herman And His Orchestra; Woody Herman; Don Raye; Hughie Prince; Eleanore Sheehy; 1940; Decca 3454 B
Andrews Sisters; Beat Me Daddy, Eight to a Bar; Andrews Sisters; Vic Shoen And His Orchestra; Don Raye; Hughie Prince; Eleanore Sheehy; 1940; Decca 3375 B
(This may not be the most important thing in this amazing full page of a NY Police Reporter’s Impressions of Washington DC., but the Weegeeweegeeweegee fact checking department spotted a potential discrepancy, if Weegee heard the Andrews Sisters sing Beat Me Daddy, Eight to a Bar it was probably not Decca 3454 B, it was probably Decca 3375 B, that Weegee heard on the juke box 78 years ago… again, not the most important thing…)
“But Is It Art?”
PM, March 2, 1941
The Art Students Hold Their Annual Party… But Is It Art?
Miss Babita, that’s the whole name, is a well known psychic, her friends said. The sign may indicate some of her friends aren’t.
This is a mermaid costume that won first prize, a bagful of money which she didn’t count. The winner in the costume is Renee Parsons.
She graced the annual ball of the Art Students’ League at the Commodore Friday night and she is Natalia Munez.
PM photos by Weegee
New York Post, March 1, 1941
Weegee, Naked City, 1945, pp. 214-215
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