Production Encyclopedia, 1952
From the great Lantern, media history digital library, website.
Prescott Evening Courier, July 15, 1952, p4
“Web of Whimsy”
Business Screen Magazine, 1959, No. 1, Volume 20
Perhaps a small discovery.
“A special impressionistic version of a carnival, shot by Weegee, famous New York impressionistic photographer…”
Sponsored by the Chicago Printed String Company.
From the amazing Lantern, media history and digital library, website.
Weegee’s New York: “… in any case, different.”
Movie Makers, May 1948
“… with characteristic candor, come up with a 2,000 foot 16mm film called Weegee’s New York… The Eastman Kodak Company, in returning rolls of Weegee Kodachrome, is said to have advised him to stop working in that medium.”
From the amazing Lantern, media history and digital library, website.
“Independently and Indirectly”
Film Daily, March 15, 1948, p. 8
“New York’s famed newspaper photographer, Weegee, had also shot stills and movie footage during the filming of ‘The Naked City,’
in New York and he independently and indirectly aided in the promotion.”
Shot movie footage!?!?!? Srsly… Squee! WTF…
From the amazing Lantern, Media History Digital Library, website.
Weegee Daily… August 28, 1941… “Tragedy in Brooklyn: Mother Kills Three Children and Herself… “
PM Daily, August 28, 1941
Tragedy in Brooklyn: Mother Kills Three Children and Herself…
Neighbors See Removal Of Mass Murder Victims. At 6:20 yesterday morning, William Morey of 311 20th Street, Brooklyn, yelled for help… Her farewell note read: “We all have syphilis disease. This is the best way out.” Police say she was deluded. The police department fired Morey in 1938 for drinking – he hasn’t kept a job since then.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, August 28, 2013
At around 6:20 yesterday evening…
WD Photos by Ceegee
New York Daily News, August 28, 1941
Mother Goes Berserk
Kills 3 Children – Wounds 4th Child and Husband
Morey was under suspicion until police found Mrs. Morey’s note reading: “This is the best way out. Don’t touch anything. We’re all diseased.”
Google street view
Camera Magic…
Weegee Daily… August 27, 1941… Weegee Has a Saloon…
PM Daily, August 27, 1941
Weegee Has a Salon:
Weegee Daily, August 27, 2013
Weegee Has a Saloon… (In Chicago.)
To be continued…
70 Years Ago Today… “Armenian-Type Foods Well Adapted to War Time…”
PM Daily, August 27, 1943
“The makings of most Armenian dishes may be bought at reasonable prices in the uptown Armenian grocery stores on Third Ave., between 25th and 27th Sts…”
PM Daily, August 27, 1943
“…quiet, pleasant and unhurried… no written menus. Diners may wander into kitchen and make selections…”
Not much of the old Armenian neighborhood is left… Arax Grocery, 350 Third Ave. is now a Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt store; H. Anooshian, 360 Third Ave., is the Mad Hatter Saloon; The Aurora Inn, 105 Lexington Ave. is a Dry Cleaner; The Balkan Armenian Restaurant, 129 East 27th St. is an Indian Restaurant; Erivan, 154 East 27th St. – the building does not exist… All that remains, that we can think of: Kalustyans, founded in 1944; Apel’s New Day Tailor Shop, 203 E 27th St.; and the Armenian Church, 221 East 27th Street…
Weegee Daily… August 26, 1940… From Federal Penitentiary to This… The Guns, The Gunman, The Gutter…
PM Daily, August 26, 1940
From Federal Penitentiary to This…
Two guns and the prostrate form of Louis Riggione tell the story. Released from prison two months ago, Riggione was enjoying his freedom by an early morning walk with his brother, Joseph, when underworld bullets mowed him down.
PM Photo by Weegee
PM Daily, August 26, 1940 (image from the Internet)
Weegee Daily, August 26, 2013
From Work to This…
I’m going to go out on a limb and conclude that the Daily News has the correct spelling, Reggione.
The Daily News photo has the credit: “By Acme.”
Across from the Puck building… According to a popular (un)real estate website, a five room apartment at 280 Mulberry St., recently rented for $3,250/month, and the average rent for a two bedroom is about $3,000… I’m going to go out on another limb, 282 Mulberry St., according to the Daily News, was on the Lower East Side, and is now in Nolita…
WD Photo by Ceegee
New York Daily News, August 27, 1940
One Reggione Saved By Rain, Brother Slain
The only reason Joe Reggione is alive today, detectives investigating the murder of his brother, Louis, said yesterday, is that it is hard to hit a running man with a revolver on a dark, rain-swept street… as the brothers reached the doorway of a tenement house at 282 Mulberry St., where they shared a five-room flat…
Vendetta, Says Sister
“It’s a vendetta,” she told them. “Somebody has sworn to kill us all. Oh God, who’s going to be next?”
DEAD END
Louie Was a Tough Guy – But He Wasn’t Touch Enough
The Guns, The Gunman, The Gutter
Shot down by rival tough guys, Louie Reggione, gun toter, counterfeiter, ex-convict, lies dead in the gutter in front of his home… guns used by the killers are circled…”
Google street view
(Nolita!)
To be continued…
“From the shade of the old apple tree…”
New York Herald Tribune, 1941
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