New York Daily News, February 4, 1942
(It’s almost Veronica Lake month here…)
1942
The Second Ave. El to be razed… pushed to the wrecking ball…
NY Daily News, February 3, 1942
NY Times, February 3, 1942
Weegee Daily… February 3, 1942… Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup…
PM, February 3, 1942, p. 11, Vol. II, No. 164
Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup
The boys were playing a little pool and cards in the Spring Arrow Social and Athletic Club, 344 Broome St., near the Bowery last night. Patrolman Eligio Sarro, off duty, went in for a pack of cigarets. Four men entered. “This is a stick-up,” the leader muttered. Sarro was a little slow getting his hands out of his overcoat pockets. “Get ’em up,” ordered the leader, Sarro did. One hand held a gun. When he got through firing, the leader was dead.
The usual curious crowd gathered after the gunman, fatally wounded, staggered from the entrance. He was about 22, dark and chunky. Police said he was Andrew Izzo with a record of six arrests.
Patrolman Sarro smokes a cigaret a few minutes after he dropped the gunman. He’s assigned to the Empire Blvd. precinct in Brooklyn. He lives only a few doors from the club.
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily, February 3-4, 2013
Off Duty Photographer Does Duty, Shoots Photo…
The boys and girls were looking at lights and bulbs in the Grand Lighting and Parts, 344 Broome St., near the Bowery tonight…
344 Broome St., February 4, 2013
NY Times, February 3, 1942
72 years ago today… Queen of the Press Photographer’s Ball…
(According to IMDB: Ms. Outlaw (1914-2002) appeared in the 1944 Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly film “Cover Girl”)
(Also from IMDB: Martha Outlaw was born on April 29, 1914 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Cover Girl (1944) and Since You Went Away (1944). She was married to Secondo Guasti III and Henry E. Huntington II. She died on December 30, 2002 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.)
New York Times, February 2, 1942
New York Daily News, February 2, 1942
We were looking (or hunting and gathering) for dead or restrained or locked up outlaws in early February (2/2, 2/3, 2/4)… instead we stumbled upon Ms. Outlaw… Martha Outlaw, from North Carolina, Queen of the Press Photographer’s Ball…
72 Years Ago Today… “Pinball Machines to Help Win War”
NY Times, February 2, 1942
72 Years Ago Today… “…will not be permitted to lower the standard of morals and of decency in this city.”
New York Herald Tribune, February 1, 1942
Weegee Daily… January 25, 1942… Two Passengers Are Killed As Auto Dives Into Hudson…
PM Daily, January 25, 1942, Vol. 2, No. 32, p. 11
Two Passengers Are Killed As Auto Dives Into Hudson
Police Raise Connecticut Auto that plunged into the Hudson at 29th St. Saturday. Two people (one in car window) were killed…
A Street Cleaner, Charles Sharkey, heard screams, helped rescue driver (third person in car) who had managed to get out…
The Driver, Burton Chapin, was taken to a waterfront shack to get over the shock. He still grasps driver’s license.
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily, January 25, 2013
No Pedestrians Are Killed…
Looking into the Hudson at 29th St. Thursday. No people were killed…
It was too cold for this, 17 degrees and very, very windy…
The piers are no longer present… below a small heliport; across the street from something like a sanitation parking/working area… My right hand is frozen… He still grasps a camera…
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee
Weegee Daily… August 17, 1942… Weegee Passes Up a Movie…
PM Daily, August 17, 1942, pp.8-9
“…Arrest didn’t dampen the spirits of Lillian and Pauline, 16 and 18, when they posed for this picture. Their companions, left to right, are Steve Samanek, 27, Raffael Martini, 18, and Baspay Cabrera, 23. Cabrera and girls worked outside, police say.”
New York Daily News, August 17, 1942
Stickup Quintet and Burglars: “These five youngsters have admitted that they are the stickup quintet that had police on the jump for a week. They’ve confessed to 20 robberies in the last seven days, which netted $1,500 in loot. Rear: Steve Samanek, Raffael Martini, Gaspay Cabrera,” Lillian Hornyak and Pauline Hornyak.”
One of our favorite PM spreads.
Presumably the same Fifth Ave. Playhouse that was had a surrealist film festival in the beginning of 1942.
New York Evening Post, 1942
“Sins of Bali,” “strictly a cheesecake affair…”
North Tonawanda NY Evening News, November 1942
Perhaps coincidentally;-) In NYC there was a “gay nightclub called ‘The Sins of Bali.'”
According to wikipedia: “My Sister and I” is a song written by Hy Zaret, Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer, recorded by Jimmy Dorsey. It hit number one on the Billboard charts on June 7, 1941. The lyric is in the voice of a child who has–with a sister–left a war zone by boat and begun a new life abroad.”
(It can be heard here.)
According to the Internet: “Pauline H. Hornyak was born on February 12th, 1924. Historic records show that Pauline died July 8th, 1997 in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 73.”
Unknown Weegee
Berinson book
To be continued…
Daily News vs. PM Daily
New York Daily News, August 17, 1942, pp.20-21
PM Daily, August 17, 1942, pp.8-9
(72 years ago today…)
Weegee Daily… June 14, 1942… It Was Hot…
PM Daily, June 14, 1942
“It Was Hot
Helen George had been watching the parade for six hours when the heat got her. She fainted on the corner of Fifth Ave. and 50th St. Cops revived her quickly and sent her home.”
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily. June 14, 2013
It Was Wet
WD Photo by Ceegee
WEEGEEWEEGEEWEEGEE 