Mary Morris, PM Daily, October 27, 1946
Amazing profile and amazing photos of the amazing Alfred Hitchcock by the amazing Mary Morris …
“… is very timid about wearing clothes…” – “There are eight million stories in the Naked City, and this is one of them.”
New York Daily News, August 12, 1941
Weegee Daily… August 11, 1941… Big-City Desperado…
PM Daily, August 11, 1941
Bandit Roy Bennett, 27, was slain by detectives when he tried to escape after attempting to hold up the New York Delicatessen, 1288 Sixth Ave. He had arrived from Texas by bus a few hours earlier, apparently planning to try his hand as a big-city desperado.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, August 11, 2013
WD Photo by Ceegee
Published (Weegee’s World and the Berinson book) versions of the big-city desperado…
PM Daily, August 11, 1941
The Bandit shares the page with a tank burning from highly inflammable bottled benzine; the Lindberghs at an America First rally; the widow of the scientist who discovered the ‘magic bullet’ that cures syphilis; and the actor Robert Montgomery in the Navy in London…
Unidentified Photographer, August 1941
Surrounded by salmon: the young man who was working behind the counter at the New York Deli at 12:30 A.M. when Bennett attempted his sole New York stick-up… Apparently Bennett was “spotted as suspicious” (no stop and frisk) as he arrived at a New York bus station and followed by a pair of detectives…
New York Daily News, August 11, 1941
“Bullet Ends Texan’s Crime Career in N.Y.”
“A Texas small town boy with a mail order pistol launched his New York career at 10:30 P.M. Saturday night. At 12:30 A.M. yesterday. he died with his boots on and a detective’s bullet in his heart…”
Unidentified Photographer, New York Daily News, August 11, 1941, p.16
Tragedy In New York.
“Roy Bennett lies sprawled, face down and dead, on Sixth Ave…”
Unidentified Photographers, New York Daily News, August 11, 1941, p.16
Gloomy Sunday
Four Pictures of Trouble and Tragedy On Land and on Sea
Unidentified Photographer, “Detective Examining a Body,” August 10, 1941
A pair of screen shots from a photo agency…
Weegee Daily, August 11, 2013
WD Photo by Google Street View
To be continued…
72 Years Ago Today… “he would play weird music on his harmonica…”
New York Daily News, August 10, 1941
(More and much better posts about Rose La Rose are here – burlesquebabesshop.com, and here – vintagesleaze.blogspot.com…)
Weegee Daily… August 6, 1941… Afterward, fishgum…
PM Daily, August 6, 1941
Afterward, business as usual: Replacing burned-out bulbs in the Wrigley sign.
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily, August 6, 2013
Afterwork, business as usual: making photos, chewing fishgum, and (not) replacing (metaphorical) burned-out-compact-fluorescent bulbs…
WD Photos by Ceegee
Weegee Daily… August 4, 1941… Our photographer tried to buy gas…
PM Daily, August 4, 1941
“Our photographer tried to buy gas last night at Brick’s Service Station, Seventh Ave. and 20th St., but it wasn’t selling any…”
Weegee Daily, August 4, 2013
Weegee Daily… August 1, 1943… The news about Mussolini…
PM Daily, August 1, 1943
The news about Mussolini comes to Broadway and 42d St.
This is how Joe Doakes received the news last Sunday that the Italians had kicked out Mussolini. Joe didn’t start waving his hat. He looked surprised, thoughtful – wary. Joe, in this case, was the New Yorker who, on his way into one of the first-run movie palaces in Times Square… had just spotted the CBS news flash… Weegee, who snapped away unnoticed by his subjects. “I would say they were hopefully waiting to see Adolf’s name up there, too.”
PHOTOS BY WEEGEE
Weegee Daily, August 1, 2013
The news about the Naked City comes to Broadway and 44th St.
This is how the naked cowgirls and boys… spotted the ABC news flash…
PHOTOS BY CEEGEE
(to be continued…)
70 Years Ago Today… Coney Island…
PM Daily, August 1, 1943
“Sketched in the sand by Grant Reynard. July 1043.”
Weegee Daily… July 31, 1941… Rocco Finds His Pal Stabbed…
PM Daily, July 31, 1941, p.17
Rocco Finds His Pal Stabbed
PM Daily, July 31, 1941, p.16-17
Weegee Daily, July 31, 2013
No Rocco… No, no Rocco…
Weegee Daily, July 31, 2013
No, no, no Rocco…
Something interesting happened almost everywhere in the Naked City… these are a few highlights of the colorful history of 62 Stanton St. from the NY Times:
Weegee Daily… July 30, 1941… Waterfront Shooting
PM Daily, July 30 1941
Weegee Covers: A Waterfront Shooting
Weegee Daily, July 30, 2013
Ceegee Covers… Nothing
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