PM, March 9, 1941
“Weegee makes friends readily. On a Chinatown assignment, he got this New Year’s lucky wish from a Chinese girl. He has a photo of her painting it pinned above his bed (see picture next page). It is characteristic of him to have his picture taken this way. The cigar is standard equipment.”
PM, March 9, 1941
“Weegee advises: ‘If it’s a fire don’t just start shooting the burning building. Get the human interest: people being rescued or watching the building.’ Picture editors found this car, iced by firemen more interesting than smoke and flames.”
PM, March 9, 1941
“This is a horrible but fascinating picture of a midget arrested in a vice case, unsuccessfully trying to dodge Weegee’s camera. About such pictures Weegee says: ‘I’m there to take pictures and I do it. I don’t gloat over it, it’s my job.'”
Brooklyn Eagle, April 17, 1940 (article from Fulton History)
(Is this the same Jerry Austin who was in Freaks (1932), Saratoga Trunk (1945), The Lovable Cheat (1949), etc.?)
PM, February 23, 1941 (PM Photos by Peter Davis, perhaps – no Weegee photos))
“This Is How Youngsters React to Saturday Movies… …’Dr. Maniac Was the Main Feature Seen by This Audience”
“Do movies harm children…”
[“Dr. Maniac” AKA “The Man Who Changed His Mind” AKA “The Man Who Lived Again”]
(from moviepostershop.com)
(from wikipedia)
PM Daily, February 9, 1941
Murder in the Rain… Hell’s Kitchen Style
This is the picture story of the careful man who remembered to put on his rubbers but failed to watch out for death. Weegee took the photo and wrote the title… Weegee said: “He was going into his home on W. 48th Street when an unknown man fired three shots and ran toward 10th Avenue. Nobody saw or heard any shots… so they said.”
Weegee Daily, February 9, 2013
No Murder… No Rain… No Snow… Hell’s Kitchen Style
Weegee as photographer and reporter (and poet!)… We recently saw a horizontal version of this image (the printed version is perhaps a third of the un-cropped image) and the legs in the upper left corner are more obvious… Perhaps the square in the foreground, in the sidewalk, is the same in both of the above photos… Perhaps coincidentally, Weegee’s future home was behind and a few doors west of this location…
This is the picture story of a careful man who remembered to make this photo before the blizzard arrived. Ceegee took the photo and wrote the title. About the photo of a 74 year old crime scene, in what critics call a continuation of a boring and profoundly unoriginal blog, Ceegee said: “I was gradually going home, walking past W. 48th St., before going to B&H Photo, and perhaps an old bakery, when I fired about ten shots and walked toward 10th Avenue. A few people, walking home, walking dogs and/or children, saw the shots… if so, they didn’t say.”
(A few easily google-able news clippings…)
Weegee, PM, November 24, 1941, p. 13
Cop Kills Holdup Man: A few minutes after he had held up an Essex Street lunchroom on the Lower East Side and shot a patron, Vincent Mannuzza, 31, was lying dead at the feet of the cop who shot him. Patrolman Laurence Cramer, right, shot and killed Mannuzza, after a two-block chase and is shown handing the gunman’s revolver to Sgt. Eugene Morland. The $20 loot taken from the restaurant lies in Mannuzza’s hat at his side. An ambulance surgeon crouches over the dead man who was shot in he head and back. Mannuzza shot a customer, Adam Zayko, 50, when he refused to go into the back room with two other customers and the mangaer of the lunchroom.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012, – Approximate location
WD Photo by Ceegee
Footnote, or, after a few minutes of Googling, two similar, yet slightly different accounts:
The Herald Statesman, Yonkers, N.Y., Monday, November 24, 1941, p. 5
The Niagara Falls Gazette, Monday, November 24, 1941, p. 22
Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – Approximate location
WD Photo by Ceegee
Weegee, PM, November 17, 1941
(Interestingly Weegee had another and perhaps equally unknown photo published in PM, on November 17, 1941… “Lucky Phil Falco leaped just before his car took this dive off the Willis Avenue Bridge. He swerved to avoid another car.
PM Photo by Weegee“)
PM, November 17, 1941
Mongrel Pup Almost Dies Saving 16 Families in Fire
“Jerry, mongrel collie, was overcome by smoke in a fish store at 210 E. 10th St., but not before he attracted the attention of a passerby.”
“When the ambulance arrived an intern gave the unconscious pup an injection and continued treatments until he regained his senses. Sixteen families made their escape from apartments above the store, due to Jerry’s warning.”
“John Lamanna, Jerry’s owner, tenderly carries him off wrapped in a blanket. The intern said the dog would recover.”
PM Photos by Weegee”
Weegee Daily, November 17, 2014
No Pups, No Fire, No Fish Store…
Sarcastically he writes: Weegee’s crime scene photos published in the TABLOID above are typically “grim” and bloody…
(To be continued…)
PM Daily, September 2, 1941
(Steinbrook Pharmacy, 741 Lexington Ave.)
Weegee Daily, September 2, 1941
(Lexington Ave. and 59th Street)
To be continued…
PM, August 31, 1941
