PM Daily, March 9, 1943
Weegee Daily… March 8, 1942… Street Scene: Last Rights After Fire…
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PM Daily, March 8, 1942
Street Scene: Last Rights After Fire
“Three persons died in a one-alarm fire at a tenement with out fire escapes at 239 W. 16th St. yesterday. Seven other persons were injured. On the street after the bodies were removed, Father G.J. Knoepfel, S.J., pronounced the last rites as ambulance doctor held his hat. Two of the dead were identified as Mrs. Betty Hasara, 22, and her daughter Lucille, 8 months. The other body was too badly burned for identification. Two men were rescued from ladders; two women carrying children jumped from second-floor windows. Police are investigating the fire, which apparently started on the first floor and swept through the roof. Flames were 40 feet high when firemen arrived. Other fires yesterday took two lives in Brooklyn.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, March 9, 2013
Street Scene…
No one died at a three-story building, with out fire escapes in the front, at 239 West 16th St. tonight…
(Ghosts…)
A few easily Google-able articles:
St. Petersburg Times, March 8, 1942
The Daily Argus, March 7, 1942
The Syracuse Herald Journal, March 7, 1942
The Syracuse Herald Journal, March 8, 1942
Entirely Irrelevant… Models…
June 1955
“The Most Exciting Story of the World’s Most Exciting City!”
“Terrifically told by Manhattan’s Modern O. Henry.” [O. Henry???]
“Filmed on the streets of New York with a cast of 8 million New Yorkers!”
March is “Naked City” month at WeegeeWeegeeWeegee…
Horse Meat… (The more things change, the more they stay the same…)
PM Daily, March 8, 1943
“Horse Meat on Sale in Detroit
Approved by the Detroit Board of Health, this horse meat shop open with a variety of cuts from a Kansas City Slaughterhouse”
70 Years Ago Today… “Maria Montez Wants to Do a Movie with Clothes On”
PM, March 7, 1943
By Hyman Goldberg, photos by Jack Downey
“Maria Montez Wants to Do a Movie with Clothes.”
“Some day,” said Maria Montez, a far away look in her hazel eyes, “maybe they will let me make a movies with clothes on.”
“Of course,” she said, “it’s nice to be beautiful. But I would much rather be considered intelligent.”
“Miss Montez wanted to know what was so terrible about Brooklyn that everybody made fun of it…”
“Orson, she said, “is wonderful…”
(A Maria Montez website is here…)
Entirely Irrelevant… Exotically Costumed Damsels…
June 1955
69 Years Ago Today… “A Train Goes from Brooklyn…”
PM Daily, March 6, 1944, p. 12
“You could cut the air of nostalgia with a knife yesterday as the BMT train rolled sadly over the Brooklyn Bridge for the last time. These were passengers for the finale… Workmen close the elevated track forever and the line becomes a thing of the past. Passengers are instructed to use surface cars and transfer at Jay St. and Myrtle Ave… … A singularly cheerful crowd for such a melancholy occasion waves bye-bye from the rear of the last car.”
Photos by Wilbert H. Blanche
69 Years Ago Today… “Dear Joe… the only time I go to Brooklyn is when I am forced to go there on business.”
PM Daily, March 5, 1944
“Underneath it Weegee is a sensitive, responsive artist, endlessly curious about the tiny details of life and death and crime and four-alarm fires; the details that make great art and good captions.”
“… My freelance photography business has taken a nose dive… the only time I go to Brooklyn is when I am forced to go there on business.” – Weegee
(Wee could be wrong, but wee think that this letter to Psychic Photographer Weegee c/o The Police Dept. was written in 1943, almost exactly a year before it was printed…)
And a great drawing by A.R.!
Dictionary of Fascism
PM Daily, March 5, 1944
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