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.

Weegee Daily… January 27, 1941… Blaze Makes 200 Homeless, Kills One and Injures Seven…

January 27, 2014
1941, Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, Vol. 3, January 27, 1941, No. 194, p. 8
Blaze Makes 200 Homeless, Kills One and Injures Seven
A four-alarm fire swept the upper floors of the six-story apartment house at 552 Riverside Dr., near Claremont Inn, during snow storm early yesterday morning. By the time the fierce blaze was brought under control, 200 people were homeless, one tenant had been suffocated, another was cut by glass, and six firemen were hurt.
Many of those forced to the street in scanty attire were students at the nearby Juilliard School of Music. Tenants in nearby buildings sheltered many of the homeless. A tailor around the corner on Tiemann Pl. converted his shop into a refuge, and 60 of the younger tenants were taken to Knickerbocker Hospital [Founded in 1862; 70 Convent Av., Manhattan, now apartments – according to wikipedia] for the night. The Red Cross precinct disaster service swung into action, supplying clothes and funds for those who needed them.

When the flames got to work on the metal cornice it burned with this blowtorch effect, the glow being visible across the Hudson.

Tenants got off the upper fire escapes just before they were enveloped by flames. Cause of he fire was not determined.

This girl musician is laughing hysterically. She saved her precious violin, but dashed to the street in nightgown and without shoes.

PM Photos by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, January 27, 2013
No Fire Yesterday or Today… The building is pet friendly…

(Noir-ish lighting ;-)
Perhaps coincidentally, currently there is a sixth floor apartment available, for sale, for $369,000. From a real estate website: the building was built in 1910; the building has 68 units, 6 floors, a live-in super, common court yard, bike storage, storage, fitness center and central laundry room. The building is pet friendly. 60 years ago today, it’s very likely that this apartment was damaged in the above fire…
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee

Weegee Daily Map!

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(To be continued…)

Weegee Daily… January 27, 1941… New York Chinese Welcome New Year to Pell Street in a Snowstorm…

January 27, 2014
1941, Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, January 27, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 159, p. 32
New York Chinese Welcome New Year to Pell Street in a Snowstorm
In the Chinese calendar, today is New Year’s… Chinatown welcomed it at midnight with the traditional lion dance to drive away evil spirits. Weegee made this picture of the ceremony from a fire escape above headquarters of the Hip Sing Chinese Association, 15 Pell St…

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Weegee Daily, January 27, 2013
New York Chinese Do Not Welcome New Year on Pell Street after a Small Snowstorm
In the Chinese calendar, today is not New Year’s… Ceegee made these pictures from Pell St., in front of the Hip Sing Chinese Association, 15 Pell St. (That building probably has not changed much in 62 years.)