Weegee Daily… August 17, 1942… Weegee Passes Up a Movie…

August 17, 2013
1942, Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, August 17, 1942, pp.8-9
“…Arrest didn’t dampen the spirits of Lillian and Pauline, 16 and 18, when they posed for this picture. Their companions, left to right, are Steve Samanek, 27, Raffael Martini, 18, and Baspay Cabrera, 23. Cabrera and girls worked outside, police say.”

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New York Daily News, August 17, 1942
Stickup Quintet and Burglars: “These five youngsters have admitted that they are the stickup quintet that had police on the jump for a week. They’ve confessed to 20 robberies in the last seven days, which netted $1,500 in loot. Rear: Steve Samanek, Raffael Martini, Gaspay Cabrera,” Lillian Hornyak and Pauline Hornyak.”

One of our favorite PM spreads.
Presumably the same Fifth Ave. Playhouse that was had a surrealist film festival in the beginning of 1942.
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New York Evening Post, 1942

“Sins of Bali,” “strictly a cheesecake affair…”
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North Tonawanda NY Evening News, November 1942
Perhaps coincidentally;-) In NYC there was a “gay nightclub called ‘The Sins of Bali.'”

According to wikipedia: “My Sister and I” is a song written by Hy Zaret, Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer, recorded by Jimmy Dorsey. It hit number one on the Billboard charts on June 7, 1941. The lyric is in the voice of a child who has–with a sister–left a war zone by boat and begun a new life abroad.”
(It can be heard here.)

According to the Internet: “Pauline H. Hornyak was born on February 12th, 1924. Historic records show that Pauline died July 8th, 1997 in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 73.”

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Unknown Weegee

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Berinson book

To be continued…

“It is silver gelatin final fiber print in great condition due to its age and rarity !”

August 15, 2013
auction, eBay

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1.”Weegee Original 1930/1940’s photo artistic shot !
WEEGEE ORIGINAL STAMPED PHOTO
It is silver gelatin final fiber print in great condition due to its age and rarity ! Size is 4×5″
Above photos and words from eBay.
Starting bid is $50.00

Update: This photo, not made by Weegee, sold for $50.00

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2. “Weegee Original 1930/1940’s photo Man In Uniform Stamped !
WEEGEE ORIGINAL STAMPED PHOTO RARE!
It is silver gelatin final fiber print in great condition due to its age and rarity ! Size is 4×5 ”
Above photos and words from eBay.
Buy it now price is $75.00.

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3. “weegee origanal NYC SUBWAY photogragh stamped !
Original weegee from world famous archive
silver gelatin on final fiber print great condition for its age and rarity ! 4×5”
Above photos and words from eBay.
Staring bid is $75.00.

Update: This photo, not made by Weegee, sold for $75.00

The three photos above are for sale on eBay. They are being sold as “WEEGEE ORIGINAL STAMPED PHOTO RARE.”
In our opinion it’s obvious that the photos were neither made, nor stamped by Arthur Fellig. These are, at best, good examples of a bad joke, bad imitations, and/or just plain fraud…

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This is what a real Weegee the Famous stamp looks like…

“Homicides increased 4 %…”

August 14, 2013
1941

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New York Daily News, August 14, 1941

Exactly how much crime was there in 1941 (Weegee’s most productive, and perhaps “best,” year).
There were 183 homicides in the first half of 1941, in New York State. (And 614,235 arrests.) That would be about one a day. Then the very recent “Murder on the Roof” and the recent “Bandit” and the imminent “Their First Murder” were perhaps, more-or-less, the only murders that occurred on that day…

How many homicides are there today? According to the NY Times:
“There were 414 recorded homicides so far in 2012, compared with 515 for the same period in 2011, city officials said. That is a striking decline from murder totals in the low-2,000s that were common in the early 1990s, and is also below the record low: 471, set in 2009.”
“414 Homicides in ’12 Is a Record Low for New York City” – New York Times, December 28, 2012

To be continued…