PM Daily, February 20, 1947 (Photos by Morris Gordon.)
Zahara Schatz (wikipedia page here) working and at her one-person show at the Pinacotheca Gallery…
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February 19, 1947… Duke Ellington!
PM Daily, February 19, 1947
Amazing Duke Ellington film, Duke Ellington et Son Orchestra, from the National Archives and Records Administration, on archive.org… Great Duke Ellington discography here…
Weegee Daily… February 19, 1941… The Boys Who Used to Run Firemen’s Errands Are Grown Men Now…
PM Daily February 19, 1941, pp. 16-17
The Boys Who Used to Run Firemen’s Errands Are Grown Men Now… …Chasing Fires With Buff Badges Pinned on Their Coats
“…I found the buffs to be a nice bunch of sociable fellows. If I wasn’t paid by PM for going to fires I’d join the Fire Bell Club and do it for a hobby. But only in summer time, not on Winter nights when press camera shutters freeze. Camera men freeze on cold nights, too, while we’re on the subject.”
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily, February 19, 2013
The Boys Who Used to Run Are Grown Men Now… Chasing Balls in the Buff
Fascinating and lengthy (and heavily edited) text by Weegee… The Fire Bell Club (119 West 33d St. in 1941), are still active, their website is here… “Typical fire buff,” Gordon R. Mullins is in a few of these photos… More info about “Moon” Mullins is here…
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee
Spike!
PM Daily, February 18, 1943
23 Foxhounds…
PM Daily, February 11, 1945
unreal… real estate… 451 West 47th St…
To live where great artists lived… Screenshots of a popular real estate website… 02/2013
(Filed under Real Estate, in our little electronic filing cabinet…)
Weegee and the Avant-Garde… “Half reality and half fantasy.”… Fellig was a Zellig!
Film Culture – Expanded Arts, special issue, designed by George Maciunas, cover and page 10, no. 43, winter 1966, offset
Speaking of great exhibitions (perhaps coincidentally both in academic institutions), wee stumbled into the last day of the amazing George Maciunas exhibition, “Anything Can Substitute Art: Maciunas In SOHO” at Cooper Union (December 11, 2012 – February 2, 2013, 41 Cooper Gallery, 41 Cooper Square, LL1, New York, NY 10003), and unexpectedly, ran into an old friend…
“…I am the best part of the show… A COLOR BOX… half reality and half fantasy…”
(Weegee was a lot cheaper, and more fun, than La Monte Young;-)
(To be continued…)
Small discovery… Smiling Irishman…
Smiling Irishman in Berenson Book…
PM Daily, December 26, 1943, p. 13.
One of the three uncredited photos, made by Weegee, of a “Fatal Fire on 42d Street” in 1943, is the well-known “Smiling Irishman” photo, tastefully and respectfully cropped…
This photo is intriguing. It has the ironic and funny “found” text that characterizes his late – early period, (the end of his first period, or after 1941) photos. (On The Spot, foreshadows this.) (Joy of Living – 1942, Simply Add Boiling Water – 1943, etc.)
TO BE CONTINUED/EDITED…
Weegee Daily… December 26, 1943
PM Daily, December 26, 1943, p. 13.
Fatal Fire on 42nd Street.
Firemen try to rescue some of the men trapped in the flaming W. 42nd St. lodging house in which 16 perished.
A chaplain performs the last rites for one of the men burned to death. Bodies were taken to the next door garage.
They spent their Christmas in the Bellevue Morgue. These are some of the 16 bodies removed from the Standard Hotel, which was gutted by the fire Friday.
16 Men Killed in 42d St. Fire
“…a fire in the Standard Hotel, rooming house for night workers at 439 W. 42d St., which took the lives of 16 men and sent 20 to hospitals Friday.
The fire broke out suddenly after it had apparently been smoldering for several hours. Most of the 200 men estimated to have been in the place were asleep at the time…
Commissioner of Building and Housing William Wilson, who was at the scene, said the city had no control over this type of building.
He said that he and Mayor La Guardia had asked for legislation requiring greater safety devices at the last session of the State Legislature but were turned down.
Thousands of persons gathered along 42d St. to watch the horrible scene.” PM Daily, December 26, 1943, p. 13.
Weegee Daily, December 26, 2012. Photos by Ceegee.
One of the least attractive, (and least pedestrian friendly) areas of Manhattan, W 42d. St., saw snow and wind and too many cars…
Almost forgot…
The highlight of “17 days!” is Mayor LaGuardia reading the funny papers, reading Dick Tracy, to the “kiddies” of all ages, and “solving the newspaper strike,” over WNYC radio…
(To paraphrase… “But what does it all mean?… Dirty money never brings any luck and/or love.”)
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