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PM Daily, June 6, 1946, p.17 (Photos by Morris Gordon)
“The forgotten man was remembered yesterday on the Bowery…

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267 Bowery, June 8, 2013

To be continued…


Associated Press Photos, Unidentified Photographer, ca. 1946

Bowery Wants to Shed Name
The Bowery – “no longer the street of forgotten [people]” will have its face and name changed, if plans develop the way the Bowery Improvement Committee of the East Side Chamber of Commerce wants them to…
Sam Fuchs [Sammy!], owner of Sammy’s Bowery Follies, said it wouldn’t help merchants to change the name and proposed sending “smoke hounds” home or to a farm for rehabilitation…



“Shorty, the Bowery Cherub, New Years Eve at Sammy’s Bar” 1943
Barth, Miles. Weegee’s World. New York: Bullfinch Press, 1997, p.139


“Shorty, the Bowery cherub, welcomed the New Year…”
Weegee. Naked City. New York: Essential Books, 1945, p. 148


“Shorty, the Bowery cherub, welcomes the New Year…”
Weegee. Naked City. Cincinnati, Ohio: Zebra Picture Books , 1948