PM Daily, April 2, 1941
“Auto Crash: These two women were in a cab which was in collision with two other cars at Grand and Lafayette Streets last night. Their expressions tell the whole story. Our photographer arrived just before the women were removed to Beekman Street Hospital.
Photo By Weegee
Weegee Daily, April 2, 2013
Auto: Cab driving East on Grand and Lafayette streets last evening… I could be wrong, but I think this photo was another of my discoveries. It was “unknown” until I found it in an old newspaper… Beekman Street Hospital (Founded in 1905; 117 Beekman Street, Manhattan)… Taxis were dangerous 70 years ago, and they still drive dangerously today…
Photo by Ceegee
66 Years Ago Today… Journey’s End…
PM Daily, April 2, 1947
Weegee Daily… April 1, 1945… At midnight both the elite and bums have left Sammy’s on the Bowery…
PM Daily, April 1, 1945
“At midnight both the elite and bums have left Sammy’s on the Bowery; only a milk drinker remains while Sammy counts the receipts.”
Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, April 1, 2013
“At noon, both the elite and bums have left 267 Bowery; only no one remains…”
Photo by Ceegee
66 Years Ago Today… “Will Homer’s Burial Today Lure Langley?”
PM Daily, April 1, 1947
“Will Homer’s Burial Today Lure Langley?
They will bury 65-year-old Homer Collyer today in a casket with bronze trimmings at the Cypress Hill Cemetery… And the big question is whether Homer’s brother, the missing Hermit from 2078 Fifth Avenue, will turn up at the service…
At 8:3 a.m. they started to move the dust-encrusted books. By 3 p.m. they had removed 2,987 volumes, most of them said to be of little value, medical books from the senior Collyer’s library – he was a well-known gynecologist – and books of law and engineering. Homer was an admiralty lawyer, Langley an engineer…
A collector’s item was a New York Telephone Directory for 1908…
… At least one legend was true: Langley did have a Ford car in the house…
One of several pianos was carried out. It was a Steinway…”
Photos by John De Biase, PM
(To be continued…)
Weegee Museum of Photography Opening Soon…
We’re in the process of releasing an official press release… Until then, we wanted to let a select few (that’s you) know, that we are creating an unofficial Weegee Museum of Photography.
We haven’t decided on an unofficial name yet. It must form a pleasant acronym and unfortunately most of the good acronyms are taken, these are the working names: WHAM (Weegee House of American Museum, no wait, that’s a little awkward), or WHY (Weegee House of Yesterday), or HUMP WHIP (House of Usher (Fellig’s) Museum of Photography and Weegee’s Home and International Museum of Photography), etc…
We have purchased 5 Centre Market Place. (and 5 Center Market Place) and will begin deconstruction before June 12, 2013…
We will refurbish the original rifle range in the basement, near the cafe, install a police teletype machine, provide free mandatory cigars, etc. etc…
Wee (WHAM, WHY, or HUMP WHIP, etc.) will be open 24 hours a day, and wee will keep Weegee’s hours, we’ll be open all night… (There will be no registrar dept., and if anyone has ever unnecessarily dismantled imaging equipment, and acted unprofessionally and reprehensibly, they will not be allowed to enter.) And of course the price of admission will be $17…
70 Years Ago Today… The Season’s On…
PM Daily, March 30, 1943
66 Years Ago Today… “Tarzan Has Mermaid Trouble”
PM Daily, March 29, 1948
Entirely Irrelevant… Flatbush Femme…
1955
“I’m always suspicious of Brooklyn home girls… They’re poison. They like to be driven home. (It’s always a stone’s throw from Prospect Park. You keep on driving till you land in Sheepshead Bay.) Then, when you reach their destination, they jump out, say “Thanks!” and run into their house
A Manhattan girl would invite you in for a drink and maybe have breakfast with you in bed in the morning, but not a Brooklyn babe… they take, they don’t give…”
Weegee By Weegee, p. 57
66 Years Ago Today… “Hermit House Yields Old Bank Books and Firearms”
PM Daily, March 28, 1947
Photos by Morris Gordon
“Patrolman William Haag examines the 34 bankbooks found in the decrepit Collyer house during yesterday’s second-floor search. Earliest account dated back to 1894. Most recent withdrawal was in 1942. Total deposits: $3007.”
“On an inside window sill, second floor, police found a cigar box wrapped in rags. Inside were these three old break-type revolvers. two .38s and a .32, in good working condition and oiled. There was no ammunition.”
“They found a miniature arsenal in the Collyer mansion – three revolvers, two rifles, a shotgun, a saber, a French Bayonet. Fire chief T. Douglas Collyer, Rutherford, N.J., a cousin, is shown with some of the firearms.”
70 Years Ago Today… “Official Table of Point Values For Processed Foods”
PM Daily, March 28, 1943
