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Weegee Daily… May 19, 1941… Ten Firemen Overcome in Washington Market Blaze…

May 19, 2013
1941, Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, May 19, 1941
Ten Firemen Overcome in Washington Market Blaze
…overcome while fighting a smoky blaze in the heart of Washington Market early today. The fire started in the basement of a three-story brick building occupied by Kraemer & Klie, banana dealers, at 373 Washington St…
PM Photo by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, June 2, 2013
No Firemen and No Washington Market…

to be continued…

Weegee Daily… March 8, 1942… Street Scene: Last Rights After Fire…

March 8, 2013
1941, Weegee Daily
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PM Daily, March 8, 1942
Street Scene: Last Rights After Fire

“Three persons died in a one-alarm fire at a tenement with out fire escapes at 239 W. 16th St. yesterday. Seven other persons were injured. On the street after the bodies were removed, Father G.J. Knoepfel, S.J., pronounced the last rites as ambulance doctor held his hat. Two of the dead were identified as Mrs. Betty Hasara, 22, and her daughter Lucille, 8 months. The other body was too badly burned for identification. Two men were rescued from ladders; two women carrying children jumped from second-floor windows. Police are investigating the fire, which apparently started on the first floor and swept through the roof. Flames were 40 feet high when firemen arrived. Other fires yesterday took two lives in Brooklyn.
PM Photo by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, March 9, 2013
Street Scene…
No one died at a three-story building, with out fire escapes in the front, at 239 West 16th St. tonight…
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(Ghosts…)

A few easily Google-able articles:
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St. Petersburg Times, March 8, 1942
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The Daily Argus, March 7, 1942
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The Syracuse Herald Journal, March 7, 1942
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The Syracuse Herald Journal, March 8, 1942

STUBBORN

March 2, 2013
1941

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PM Daily, March 2, 1941

“STUBBORN: Anthony Esposito, one of the gunmen who killed a policeman and a civilian in Fifth Avenue on Jan. 14, is on a hunger strike… Here is a recent photograph.” – Well, semi-recent.
We’ll be seeing more of Anthony Esposito in the near future…

Eight days until “Citizen Kane” is released…

February 20, 2013
1941

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PM Daily, February 20, 1941
“All we can say is, if Citizen Kane ever is shown it’d better be good.”

And it was great.

It’s hard to imagine a world without Citizen Kane… Perhaps Welles was the Weegee of photography. No, wait, I mean, maybe Welles was the Weegee of the movies. Or, maybe Weegee was the Welles of photography… Anyway, 1941 was perhaps the best year for both Artists… (Oh well, the best of both worlds…)