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Weegee Daily… January 4, 1944… Effects of Explosion on a Navy Destroyer…

January 4, 2013
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PM Daily, January 4, 1944, pp 12-13.
“Miss Irene Maher, manager of Maher’s Hotel, 116-06 Rockaway Beach Blvd., examines broken window in the hotel.”
“Sol Berger, proprietor, moves model from shattered window of his clothing shop, while Nat, glazier, takes out broken glass.”
“This window at a Rockaway Beach draft board headquarters was blown out by the explosion.”
Photos by Weegee, PM

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Weegee Daily, January 4, 2013
No explosion on a Navy destroyer today…
On January 3, 1944, the less-than-year-old, 1700 ton, U.S.S. Turner exploded in NY Harbor.
(A few links about the Turner are here, here, here, and here.)
Photo by Google Street View, WD

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Weegee Daily… January 2, 1945… Boy, Were They Thirsty!

January 2, 2013
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PM Daily, January 2, 1945, p. 13
Boy, Were They Thirsty!
“Tavern [Old Village Restaurant] on ground floor of burning building is shelter for firemen overcome by smoke New Year’s Eve. Customers also had a hot time… Celluloid factory provides Fourth of July welcome for 1945…
They smelled no fumes but the divine fumes of alcohol. They heard no bells clanging but the happy bells in their brains… ‘Jeez! What a New Year! Boy!'”
PM Photos by Weegee


Weegee Daily, January 2, 2013
80 Greenwich Ave. is now a parking garage and the 3 Legged Dog theater company… a celluloid factory no more… we heard the happy bells on our iPods… on a quiet, cold New Year’s Day…
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee

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Weegee Daily… January 2, 1942… Auto Crashes Marred New Year – As Usual…

January 2, 2013
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PM Daily, January 2, 1942,
Auto Crashes marred New Year-as usual. When this car struck El pillar at 48th At. and Third Ave. driver was injured.
Bus crashed into doctor’s car parked in front of his office at 232 East 79th St…
Three were removed to Bellevue when, at Second Ave. and 39th St., this car collided with a taxi…
Driver of wrecked cab, John Delany, 559 Second Ave., was removed by cops, later went to hospital.
PM Photos by Weegee.


Weegee Daily, January 2, 2013
Auto Crashes Not Seen
 This car at 48th St. and Third Ave.
Cars in front of 240 East 79th St… There is no 232 East 79th St. anymore…
This car was resting comfortably at Second Ave. and 39th St…
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee.

Weegee Daily… December 26, 1943

December 26, 2012
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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…

Weegee Daily… December 26, 1940

December 26, 2012
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PM Daily, December 26, 1940.
First Aid fails to revive Paul Ryan, killed by a gas explosion in his apartment at 865 First Ave. Police said it was apparently suicide. The Christmas night blast shock the 17-story building and injured two house employes. PM photo by Weegee.

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Boring photos fail to revive pedestrian… One of the eight million stories in the 17-story building ends and the building remains surprisingly intact… Weegee Daily photos by Ceegee.

Weegee Daily… December 24, 1940

December 24, 2012
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It’s No Trick that makes this steeplejack look as high up as the Chrysler Building needle – just the camera angle. He’s Andy Collins, 1074 Summit Ave., Bronx, painting the 60-foot pole atop the 38-story Commerce Building, 155 E. 44th St. Photo by Weegee

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It’s No Trick that makes the Chrysler Building look like the Chrysler Building – just the camera angle…
Photos by Ceegee

Weegee Daily… December 23, 1940

December 23, 2012
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Ermine-Wrapped Patron Caught in the Gambling Den…
A gold-lame evening bag shields her face as one of 50 carriage-trade gamblers ducks out of 18 E. 68th St. after raiders early yesterday interrupted their $5 to $1000-a-chip roulette game. Cops sent the customers home but confiscated the equipment and held five men as operators, including George Herrick, 45, described by detectives as successor to Arnold Rothstein. PM Photo by Weegee
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Plain-Clothes Men Raid $1000-a-Chip Society Gambling Spot
PM Photos by Weegee

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Weegee Daily… December 23, 1940

December 23, 2012
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PM Daily, December 23, 1940, p15. PM photos by Weegee
Home For Christmas Are the Soldiers From Alabama.
 “For nearly seven hours wives, girl friends, mothers and fathers swarmed into Pennsylvania Station to greet 5000 men returning from Fort McClellan, Anniston, Ala., on Christmas furlough. The special sections ran far behind schedule but the festive spirit of the crowd overwhelmed any feeling of boredom at the delay. The off schedules were caused by heavy traffic on southern routes of other trains distributing the new trainees throughout the country for the holidays. Then, too, special stops had to be made to take aboard more drinking water and sandwiches. Here, part of the crowd waits.”

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Weegee Daily, December 23, 2012. WD photos by Ceegee
“…People swarmed Grand Central Station… the Apple store overwhelmed any feeling of boredom. Here, part of the crowd walks and waits and photographs…”

Weegee Daily… December 22, 1941…

December 22, 2012
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Ticking of the clock brought on police investigation. PM Photo by Weegee

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“Police Solve Mystery of Ticking Suitcase
But Virtually Ruin Contents By Soaking It in Oil.
An attendant at the Pennsylvania Station parcel-checking room wasn’t taking any chances yesterday when he picked up a suitcase and heard a ticking noise inside it. He called the police.
Bomb squad detectives took the suitcase to a nearby parking lot, soaked it in oil and opened it. They found an alarm clock, the hands indicating 5:28; three pairs of women’s shoes, a raincoat, a meat chopper, two flatirons, two brushes and woman’s undies.
The suitcase was returned to the checkroom, the contents a bit the worse for the oil.”

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Ticking of the clock brought on photographer’s investigation… WD Photos by Ceegee

Our intrepid photographer went to the Pennsylvania Station/Madison Square Garden parking lot and found a sidewalk soaked in oil, two K-9 police patrol cars, 3 Port Authority police cars, and many barricades…