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.”
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…”
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…)
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…
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…
Sold for $1,025.
(wish this was in color…)
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.)
PM Daily, February 19, 1947
Amazing Duke Ellington film, Duke Ellington et Son Orchestra, from the National Archives and Records Administration, on archive.org… Great Duke Ellington discography here…
PM Daily February 19, 1941, pp. 16-17
The Boys Who Used to Run Firemen’s Errands Are Grown Men Now… …Chasing Fires With Buff Badges Pinned on Their Coats
“…I found the buffs to be a nice bunch of sociable fellows. If I wasn’t paid by PM for going to fires I’d join the Fire Bell Club and do it for a hobby. But only in summer time, not on Winter nights when press camera shutters freeze. Camera men freeze on cold nights, too, while we’re on the subject.”
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily, February 19, 2013
The Boys Who Used to Run Are Grown Men Now… Chasing Balls in the Buff
Fascinating and lengthy (and heavily edited) text by Weegee… The Fire Bell Club (119 West 33d St. in 1941), are still active, their website is here… “Typical fire buff,” Gordon R. Mullins is in a few of these photos… More info about “Moon” Mullins is here…
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee
PM Daily, February 18, 1941, p.2
Two-Alarm Fire at Greene and E. Third Sts., New York last night smoked up the street (left) so that even newspaper men were coughing… Spot (above), Dalmation coach dog that goes to all the fires with Hook and Ladder Co. 20, went to Greene St. He got so cold and wet that a Holmes patrolman wrapped him in a blanket and reporters took him home. The fire was in a paper bag company on the third floor.
by Weegee and Steve Derry, PM
Weegee Daily, February 18, 2013
Twenty Degree Weather at Greene and Fourth Sts., New York froze up the street, so that even photographers were freezing. NYU Business School (above) illustrates how NYU has taken over (parts of) NYC… Wee could be wrong about this location, but it appears that NYU has taken over Greene and Third Sts…
Photos by Ceegee, WD
