PM Daily, March 28, 1943
1943
Weegee Daily… March 25, 1943… The Gotham Hotel Supply Co…
PM Daily, March 25, 1943
“The Gotham Hotel Supply Co., 401 W. 14th St., a subsidiary of Wilson & Co. received plenty of beef yesterday for its restaurant and hotel trade. Around the corner Wilson & Co. retail branch outlet, no meat was being sold to butchers.
PM Photo by Weegee”
Weegee Daily, March 26, 2013
401 West 14th St… Plenty of Apples…
WD Photo by Ceegee
Weegee Daily… March 14, 1943… Boy from the Richelieu meets girl at the Stage Door Canteen…
PM Daily, March 14, 1943
Boy from the Richelieu meets girl at the Stage Door Canteen…
PHOTO BY WEEGEE
Weegee Daily, March 14, 2013
Boy from Jekyll & Hyde startles girl on sidewalk in front of the old Stage Door Canteen…
216 West 44th St. sign on wall…
PHOTO BY CEEGEE
“Stage Door Canteen” is more than wartime nostalgia that dredges up disposable, propagandistic ditties with an attitude of serious fun. It is an informative piece of history that remembers the first Stage Door Canteen, a hospitality center created by the American Theater Wing in the basement of a Broadway theater at 216 West 44th Street, where celebrities and servicemen could mingle. On any given night it could accommodate 3,500 people. Alcohol was not served.” (from the NY Times)
70 Years Ago Today…
PM Daily, March 9, 1943
Horse Meat… (The more things change, the more they stay the same…)
PM Daily, March 8, 1943
“Horse Meat on Sale in Detroit
Approved by the Detroit Board of Health, this horse meat shop open with a variety of cuts from a Kansas City Slaughterhouse”
70 Years Ago Today… “Maria Montez Wants to Do a Movie with Clothes On”
PM, March 7, 1943
By Hyman Goldberg, photos by Jack Downey
“Maria Montez Wants to Do a Movie with Clothes.”
“Some day,” said Maria Montez, a far away look in her hazel eyes, “maybe they will let me make a movies with clothes on.”
“Of course,” she said, “it’s nice to be beautiful. But I would much rather be considered intelligent.”
“Miss Montez wanted to know what was so terrible about Brooklyn that everybody made fun of it…”
“Orson, she said, “is wonderful…”
(A Maria Montez website is here…)
70 Years Ago Today… “Every Dot Represents…” Bizarre use of halftones…
PM Daily, March 4, 1943
“Every dot represents a Jap, and this is what 15,000 of them would look like, only slightly more regimented than usual, after being worked on by MacArthur’s bombers.”
One of the most bizarre uses of halftones…
February 17, 1943… “She’s a Hazard to Output, Too…”
PM Daily, February 17, 1943
“”This request from the Government isn’t only a pleasure – it’s a relief.”
February 17, 1947… Duke Ellington!
PM Daily, February 17, 1947
February 12, 1943…
PM Daily, February 12, 1943
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