March 2 was a productive day for Weegee. He had three stories, seven photos, published on March 2, 1941. This includes an entire page: “A N.Y. Police Reporter’s Impressions of Washington,” this might be the longest text written by Weegee to appear in PM Daily, or any other periodical, and three photos (a segregated movie theater, the capitol, and a portrait of the artist). Fire photos were published on both March 2, 1943 and March 2, 1944. And a piece about film was published on March 2, 1947…
Weegee Daily
Weegee Daily… February 24, 1943… Ration Rush, Lower East Side…
PM Daily, February 24, 1943, Vol. III, No. 216
Filing Out That Ration Form… Ration Rush, Lower East Side…
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily, February 24, 2013
(to be continued…)
Weegee Daily… February 24, 1941… Weegee Meets Interesting People At a 6 a.m. Fire
PM Daily, February 24, 1941
Weegee Meets Interesting People At a 6 a.m. Fire
By WEEGEE
Cruising Times Square at 6 a.m. Sunday with the police radio on in my car, I picked up the first of two alarms of a fire above a Chinese restaurant on the second floor of a four-story brick building at 141-45 W. 33d St…
Weegee Daily, February 24, 2013
Ceegee Meets Interesting Mannequins at 6 p.m.
Weegee Daily Map!
Weegee Daily… February 24, 1941… Sabbath Fire in Church Breaks Up Bingo Game…
PM Daily, February 24, 1941
Sabbath Fire in Church Breaks Up Bingo Game…
Weegee Daily, February 24, 2013
No Fire… No Church… No Bingo…
Weegee Daily Map!
(to be continued…)
Weegee Daily… February 20, 1942… Sailors…
PM Daily, February 20, 1942, p. 5
Sailors and longshoremen in Park Row Saloon yesterday were arguing about war. Someone pulled a knife. Police found nine men in various states of consciousness from park Row to Frankfort St…
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, February 20, 2013
Sailors and longshoremen are long gone…
(Approximate location.)
Weegee Daily photo by Google Street View
To be continued…
Weegee Daily… February 19, 1943… Dog’s Barks Are Ignored, Couple Suffocates in Fire…
PM Daily, February 19, 1943, p. 17
Dog’s Barks Are Ignored, Couple Suffocates in Fire
Neighbors yesterday afternoon ignored frantic barking by Snappy, a Spitz… Soon after Snappy became quiet, smoke poured from the Mickells’ flat at 278 Ave. B. Firemen who answered an alarm found the couple and Snappy had been suffocated by smoke from a kerosene heater that exploded in the kitchen…
In the foreground, covered, is the body of Mickell. His faithful dog was at his side until the end. Mrs. Mickell’s body is in the bedroom.
Weegee Daily, February 19, 2013
Approximate location of 278 Ave. B… (The top photo appeared on p. 32 in some editions of the February 19, 1943, PM Daily.)
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
Weegee Daily… February 18, 1941… Two-Alarm Fire…
PM Daily, February 18, 1941, p.2
Two-Alarm Fire at Greene and E. Third Sts., New York last night smoked up the street (left) so that even newspaper men were coughing… Spot (above), Dalmation coach dog that goes to all the fires with Hook and Ladder Co. 20, went to Greene St. He got so cold and wet that a Holmes patrolman wrapped him in a blanket and reporters took him home. The fire was in a paper bag company on the third floor.
by Weegee and Steve Derry, PM
Weegee Daily, February 18, 2013
Twenty Degree Weather at Greene and Fourth Sts., New York froze up the street, so that even photographers were freezing. NYU Business School (above) illustrates how NYU has taken over (parts of) NYC… Wee could be wrong about this location, but it appears that NYU has taken over Greene and Third Sts…
Photos by Ceegee, WD
Weegee Daily… February 17, 1942… Eight Stars…
PM Daily, February 17, 1942
Eight Stars…
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, February 17, 2013
One Moon, One Star, a Half Light (and a Broom?)
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee
Weegee Daily… February 17, 1941… Police Report: Weegee Covers an Arrest and a Fire
PM Daily, February 17, 1941, p. 14
Police Report: Weegee Covers an Arrest and a Fire
Man Caught in Store:
Fire on Fifth Avenue:
Store:
Fifth Avenue:
Weegee Daily, February 17, 2013
(To be continued…)
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