Life, June 12, 1950, p.51
Tussle At The Tunnel
Ancient rivals meet in Brooklyn in fight to be first through tube
“Life” Showed Rivals in 1938
A dozen years ago Life published this strip of pictures showing the first meeting of Horn (left) and Catan as they waited to be first through the Lincoln Tunnel under the Hudson River. Horn started from New York, Catan from New Jersey. They met in the middle, but Catan paid first toll since gates are on Jersey side.
Life, June 12, 1950, p.51
PM, March 2, 1941
PM, March 9, 1941
A picture with somebody in it sells better than a picture of a lifeless object. So Weegee sometimes puts himself in his picture-shooting them by “remote control.” Here he is posing as a “curious passerby” looking at the body of a Brooklyn murder victim found in trunk near the Gowanus Canal.
PM, March 9, 1941
PM, March 9, 1941
Weegee makes friends readily. On a Chinatown assignment he got this New Year’s lucky wish from a Chinese girl. He has a photo of her painting it pinned above his bed (see picture on next page). It is characteristic of him to have his picture taken this way. The cigar is standard equipment.
PM, March 9, 1941
PM, March 9, 1941
Weegee’s room shows his devotion to his job. On top of his regular radio is a police short-wave radio and a loudspeaker attached to it dangles over his bed. On the floor are his special “murder shoes” – at left – and his “snow shoes.” He keeps his “fire shoes” in his car. The wall decorations are examples of his work and certificates of awards for prize-winning pictures. The cardboard boxes at the extreme right are his disorderly “files.” The typewriter is his latest acquisition. He has recently taken up writing – a field in which he shows rather startling talent. We don’t know what the Flit is for.
PM, March 9, 1941
Happy Birthday Weegee…
“Distortion, 51st Street and Broadway, 1950s”
“Seen Together: Acquisitions in Photography,” Morgan Library and Museum, May 17, 2024
Life, May 10, 1943, pp. 34-35 (Photos by Weegee and George Karger)
JITTERBUGS JAM JAMES’S JIVE JAG
News pundits find war phenomenon
…The newspaper PM devoted several scholarly disquisitions to the Harry James jitterbugs…
January 1953
Weegee and Cheeta, star of the Tarzan films, become good friends on a movie lot in Hollywood. Both “actors” like to mug for the camera.
PM, March 28, 1948, p.17
Life, April 15, 1940, pp.96-99
The Strange Case of MURDER INC.
Huge ring dealing in depth for profit is cracked by new Brooklyn prosecutor.
In Brooklyn last week there unfolded a horror tale, bigger and more odious than any ever imagined by any detective dreamer or amateur of crime…
May 1943
“Weegee,” alias Arthur Fellig, admits that he looks like a 40 year old Dead End Kid…
Billie Holiday, Joe Guy, her trumpeter-husband, and Mister, her dog, photographed in Billie’s dressing room at the Downbeat Club. Photo by Skippy Adelman.
Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit. Billie says: “It depresses me every time I sing it. It reminds me of how Pop died. But I have to sing it. Things are still going on in the south.
PM, 1945, Photos by Skippy Adelman.
PM, 1945, Photos by Skippy Adelman.
“One of the these days things will get better,” she sighed. “They’ll get better for everybody. We’ll all have a chance to eat and sleep in peace. I just know it will come about. It will take a long time, but it will come about. It won’t be in my lifetime, though. Oh, no, I’ll never profit by it.” PM, 1945.
Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959).
PM, September 4, 1947
Marlon Brando has been signed…
Born 100 years ago today…
