PM Daily, February 24, 1943, Vol. III, No. 216
Filing Out That Ration Form… Ration Rush, Lower East Side…
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily, February 24, 2013
(to be continued…)
Weegee Daily… February 24, 1941… Weegee Meets Interesting People At a 6 a.m. Fire
PM Daily, February 24, 1941
Weegee Meets Interesting People At a 6 a.m. Fire
By WEEGEE
Cruising Times Square at 6 a.m. Sunday with the police radio on in my car, I picked up the first of two alarms of a fire above a Chinese restaurant on the second floor of a four-story brick building at 141-45 W. 33d St…
Weegee Daily, February 24, 2013
Ceegee Meets Interesting Mannequins at 6 p.m.
Weegee Daily Map!
Weegee Daily… February 24, 1941… Sabbath Fire in Church Breaks Up Bingo Game…
PM Daily, February 24, 1941
Sabbath Fire in Church Breaks Up Bingo Game…
Weegee Daily, February 24, 2013
No Fire… No Church… No Bingo…
Weegee Daily Map!
(to be continued…)
Thelonious Monk! “The Piano Man Who Dug Be-Bop”
PM, February 22, 1948
Words by Ira Peck; photos by Irving Haberman and Morris Gordon.
“Picture on Ceiling of blues singer Billie Holiday provides Monk with inspiration while composing. Dizzy Gillespie’s picture is on wall at left.”
“Thelonious Monk, apostle of a new jazz cult, be-bop, playing a few bars for Teddy Hill at Minton’s, where bop was born.”
A Discovery… “For this moment they waited eight years…”
PM Daily, February 21, 1945, p. 17
This photo might be a small discovery; think this image is relatively unknown…
And it’s a great one!
“I’ll say Hello to Daddy…”
Eight days until “Citizen Kane” is released…
PM Daily, February 20, 1941
“All we can say is, if Citizen Kane ever is shown it’d better be good.”
And it was great.
It’s hard to imagine a world without Citizen Kane… Perhaps Welles was the Weegee of photography. No, wait, I mean, maybe Welles was the Weegee of the movies. Or, maybe Weegee was the Welles of photography… Anyway, 1941 was perhaps the best year for both Artists… (Oh well, the best of both worlds…)
Weegee Daily… February 20, 1942… Sailors…
PM Daily, February 20, 1942, p. 5
Sailors and longshoremen in Park Row Saloon yesterday were arguing about war. Someone pulled a knife. Police found nine men in various states of consciousness from park Row to Frankfort St…
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, February 20, 2013
Sailors and longshoremen are long gone…
(Approximate location.)
Weegee Daily photo by Google Street View
To be continued…
Modern Art, Plastic…
PM Daily, February 20, 1947 (Photos by Morris Gordon.)
Zahara Schatz (wikipedia page here) working and at her one-person show at the Pinacotheca Gallery…
Recent Auctions… Marilyn Monroe on an Elephant…
Sold for $1,025.
(wish this was in color…)
Weegee Daily… February 19, 1943… Dog’s Barks Are Ignored, Couple Suffocates in Fire…
PM Daily, February 19, 1943, p. 17
Dog’s Barks Are Ignored, Couple Suffocates in Fire
Neighbors yesterday afternoon ignored frantic barking by Snappy, a Spitz… Soon after Snappy became quiet, smoke poured from the Mickells’ flat at 278 Ave. B. Firemen who answered an alarm found the couple and Snappy had been suffocated by smoke from a kerosene heater that exploded in the kitchen…
In the foreground, covered, is the body of Mickell. His faithful dog was at his side until the end. Mrs. Mickell’s body is in the bedroom.
Weegee Daily, February 19, 2013
Approximate location of 278 Ave. B… (The top photo appeared on p. 32 in some editions of the February 19, 1943, PM Daily.)
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