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Weegee Daily… June 16, 1943… 40 Saved From Blazing Street Car After Bowery Collision…

June 16, 2013
1943, Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, June 16, 1943
40 Saved From Blazing Street Car After Bowery Collision…
“Apparently trying to cut in ahead of the street car, Woodrow Rivers, the truck driver, was crushed to death behind his steering wheel as the truck was wedged between the trolley and an elevated pillar. This picture was made after fire had swept through the truck.”
Photos by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, June 16, 2013
Amazing (and perhaps slightly lesser-known) late, early period fire and car-truck-extinct-public-transportation crash photos… In front of the Gotham Hotel, at 356 Bowery…
Photo by Ceegee
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Google Street View’s view of 356 Bowery (not my 344 Bowery)…

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And it’s unusual to see an AF number in printed photographs; (1943 is when this is prevalent)…

Weegee Daily… June 14, 1943… Cooling Off on the East Side…

June 14, 2013
1943, Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, June 14, 1943
Cooling Off on the East Side
With tenements in the background East Siders enjoy splashing around in the park pool at E. Houston and Pitt Sts. Youngsters get in for nine cents.
Photo by Weegee, PM

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Weegee Daily, June 15, 2013
Drying Off on the East Side
With public housing in the background no one is splashing around in the Hamilton Fish Play Center. (“The outdoor pool season begins on June 28.“) Youngsters get in for free!

Weegee Daily… June 24, 1943… No. 17 Is on Its Last Legs…

June 14, 2013
1943, Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, June 24, 1943
No. 17 Is on Its Last Legs
With the all-important No, 17 coupon expiring on Thursday, New York shoe stores were jammed even on Sunday. These young ladies are trying on same white models at a shoe store on Delancey St., on the lower East side.
Photos by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, June 15, 2013
With the all-important fiscal year ending on Sunday, New York shoe stores on Delancey St., on the lower East Side, were not jammed even on Saturday…
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The stores were so uncrowded that the doors were open and potential alligator shoe and fine exotic footwear customers closed their eyes and walked right on by…
Photos by Ceegee

70 Years Ago Today… Dona Drake…

May 16, 2013
1943

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PM Daily, May 16, 1943
Dona Drake
(“Dona Drake was an American singer, dancer and film actress in the 1930s and 1940s. She was born Eunice Westmoreland in Miami, Florida, in 1914. Entering show business in the 1930s, she used the names Una Velon, Rita Rio and Rita Shaw.” from Wikipedia)