Weegee Daily… February 3, 1942… Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup…

February 3, 2014
1942, Weegee Daily

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PM, February 3, 1942, p. 11, Vol. II, No. 164
Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup
The boys were playing a little pool and cards in the Spring Arrow Social and Athletic Club, 344 Broome St., near the Bowery last night. Patrolman Eligio Sarro, off duty, went in for a pack of cigarets. Four men entered. “This is a stick-up,” the leader muttered. Sarro was a little slow getting his hands out of his overcoat pockets. “Get ’em up,” ordered the leader, Sarro did. One hand held a gun. When he got through firing, the leader was dead.

The usual curious crowd gathered after the gunman, fatally wounded, staggered from the entrance. He was about 22, dark and chunky. Police said he was Andrew Izzo with a record of six arrests.

Patrolman Sarro smokes a cigaret a few minutes after he dropped the gunman. He’s assigned to the Empire Blvd. precinct in Brooklyn. He lives only a few doors from the club.
PM Photos by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, February 3-4, 2013
Off Duty Photographer Does Duty, Shoots Photo…
The boys and girls were looking at lights and bulbs in the Grand Lighting and Parts, 344 Broome St., near the Bowery tonight…

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344 Broome St., February 4, 2013

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NY Times, February 3, 1942

72 years ago today… Queen of the Press Photographer’s Ball…

February 2, 2014
1942

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(According to IMDB: Ms. Outlaw (1914-2002) appeared in the 1944 Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly film “Cover Girl”)

(Also from IMDB: Martha Outlaw was born on April 29, 1914 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Cover Girl (1944) and Since You Went Away (1944). She was married to Secondo Guasti III and Henry E. Huntington II. She died on December 30, 2002 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.)

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New York Times, February 2, 1942

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New York Daily News, February 2, 1942

We were looking (or hunting and gathering) for dead or restrained or locked up outlaws in early February (2/2, 2/3, 2/4)… instead we stumbled upon Ms. Outlaw… Martha Outlaw, from North Carolina, Queen of the Press Photographer’s Ball…

68 Years Ago Today… “G-String Murders”…

February 1, 2014
1943

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“The Gypsy Rose Lee of United Artists’ version of G-String Murders is Barbara Stanwyck, the Lady of Burlesque.

WHEN Gypsy Rose Lee was in the movies, Hollywood nice-nellies absolutely refused to let her use her strip-teasy name (she appeared as Louise Hovick). So it probably was consistent, if not bright, to change the name of best-seller mystery, G-String Murders, into something more suitable for the films. It is mow in production at United Artists under the title or Lady of Burlesque, and here are some or the first scenes. The new title was arrived at, according to reports, after a studio survey revealed that housewives, who are the mainstay of the movie audience, didn’t know what a G-string was. For the record, a G-string is that rhinestone vestige which burlesque strippers still have on when you think they’re all stripped.”

HISTORY OF PM (part 2)

January 29, 2014
1940, PM

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“Early in the Spring of 1940, the first raw recruits for Task Force PM gathered in a loft in Brooklyn, a few blocks away from the Long Island R.R.’s Flatbush Avenue station, and began their training for the invasion of New York with a new kind of newspaper. By the first week in June they had translated the prospectus on which the money to pay them had been raised into copy for the first prepublication issues-and these had been printed a mile and a half away on presses that had been leased from the BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE.”

Weegee Daily… January 27, 1941… Not London’s Famous No. 10 Downing St…

January 27, 2014
1941, Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, January 27, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 159, p. 14
Not London’s Famous No. 10 Downing St., but Manhattan’s very own. Weegee found it in the labyrinth of criss-cross streets known as lower Greenwich Village. If you are looking for a modern hideaway apartment or store and want to say, “I live at 10 Downing Street,” it’s your dish. Take West Side IRT to Sheridan Sq. or take Independent to Washington Sq., bear south to Sixth Ave. and Bleecker St., then look close. The map may help. There are people who have lived in the Village for years and don’t know where it is.

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Weegee Daily, January 26, 2013
Not London’s Famous No. 10 Downing St., but Manhattan’s very own. Ceegee found it in the labyrinth of criss-cross streets known as lower Greenwich Village. If you are looking for a coffee shop, bank, restaurant, modern hideaway apartment or store and want to say, “I live at 10 Downing Street,” it’s your dish. Take the 1, Broadway-7th Avenue local to Christopher St./Sheridan Sq. or take the A, B, C, D, E, or F to West 4th St… (The above photo is surprisingly almost an exact match, it’s hard to see as a little JPEG, but the buildings and painted wall sign have barely changed in 62 years…)
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From to a popular (un)real estate website: 10 Downing St.: “Built in 1941, this beautiful six-story building is just as charming and unique as it was 70 years ago. With upgrades to the lobby, elevators and many apartments, the city’s most discriminating New Yorkers proudly call 10 Downing Street home.”
And with 700 sq. ft studios renting for $4,000, they may be discriminating, but I wouldn’t be very proud of that rent…”10-downing-st copyScreen shot of a popular (un)real estate web site.