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