New York Herald Tribune, July 24, 1941
“Tattooed Woman Makes Big Mistake on Bowery
Mildred Hull, forty-five years old, a tattooed woman and tattoo artist… with a natural distaste for the commonplace, threw a bottle at a friend who had made a conventional remark about the weather. The bottle struck a police radio patrol car.
The incident occurred in front of Ms. Hull’s tattooing establishment at 2 1/2 Bowery… Miss Hull let the bottle fly with an uninhibited swing…
Both went to jail.”
1941
“No immediate plans to go underground…”
New York Herald Tribune, July 1941
“Museums Plan Shelters for Art In Case of War”
“From the shade of the old apple tree, to a pie for you and me.”
New York Herald Tribune, July 1941
Weegee Daily… June 8, 1941… The Cumfort Hotel…
PM Daily, June 8, 1941
“The Cumfort Hotel, an unoccupied flop house at 21 Bowery, was swept by fire yesterday. Battalion Chief Patrick Carey and Fireman Thomas Deady fell from a ladder while climbing to the roof. Here is Deady being taken to a hospital where he was found to be suffering from concussion of the brain. Chief Carey suffered only bruises.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, June 8, 2013
The Cumfort Hotel is now the Confucius Florist…
WD Photo by Google Street View (There should be Google Street View at night.)
To be continued…
Weegee Daily… June 1, 1941… And End to Liberty…
PM Daily, June 1, 1941
An End to Liberty
“This rhesus monkey went AWOL from his unknown owner and tore around Duane Street until ASPCA inspectors cornered him in the girls room of the Star Bookbinding Co. Tom Barnshaw lured him with a banana.” Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, June 2, 2013
Liberty Forever…
Approximate site of 66 Duane St… A place of remembrance… A scared site… The African Burial Ground National Monument…
Photos by Ceegee
NYPL Direct Me, 1940 phone book…
African Burial Ground and Google Maps (no street view allowed on that part of Duane St.).
Weegee Daily… May 23, 1941… The hot whether…
Weegee Daily, May 24, 2013
A Weegee Daily Map!
Weegee Daily… May 19, 1941… Ten Firemen Overcome in Washington Market Blaze…
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
Weegee Daily, June 2, 2013
No Firemen and No Washington Market…
to be continued…
Weegee Daily… March 9, 1941… If You Want to Know How Weegee Gets Pictures Like These…
PM Daily, March 9, 1941
“If You Want to Know How Weegee Gets Pictures Like These See Ralph Steiner’s Story on Next Page”
[Obviously the greatest and most important story, photographs, and text in PM’s history… Ink on paper has never been better used throughout the history of the printed word; the history of newspapers…]
Weegee Daily… March 8, 1942… Street Scene: Last Rights After Fire…
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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
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…
(Ghosts…)
A few easily Google-able articles:
St. Petersburg Times, March 8, 1942
The Daily Argus, March 7, 1942
The Syracuse Herald Journal, March 7, 1942
The Syracuse Herald Journal, March 8, 1942
STUBBORN
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…
