PM Daily, January 18, 1941, p. 5
Thirteen-Ton Roosevelt Bust Placed Before Post Office…
PM Photo by Weegee
PM Daily, January 17, 1945, Vol. 5, No. 183, p. 15
The Press Agent Wasn’t Snowed In
No kidding, these were the Grape Fruit Gals pretending to shovel snow outside the Winter Garden Theater, where by an odd coincidence, they are playing in Laffing Room Only. Press agent’s handout said the girls dropped by rehearsals to tackle the snowstorm because of the manpower shortage.
Joe Flynn, the press agent, holds the girls’ coats while they pose. Only reason we have the pictures is that Weegee happened by.
You see, it’s like this…
Photos by Weegee, PM
Weegee Daily Map!
PM Daily, January 17, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 153, p. 20
A truck smashed a fire-alarm box on this pole at Spring and Greenwich Sts., putting 11 others out of whack. Radio cars patrolled the neighborhood till they were fixed.
PM Photo by Weegee
PM Daily, January 17, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 153, p. 14
Charlie the Bum Confesses Setting Chinatown Fire
Two alarms brought 75 firemen to keep fire from spreading from three “tinderbox” tenements across 18-foot Doyers St., one of city’s narrowest.
Police said that a Chinese had confessed setting yesterday’s fire which destroyed a dilapidated old wooden building at 8 Doyers St., in Chinatown…
Three persons, two Chinese and one white man, died in that fire. Assistant District Attorney Rosenblum called the building “one of the rottenest hellholes I’ve ever seen.”
Mr. Rosenblum questioned tenants who paid $2 to $7 a month for dark cubicles. It appeared that the structure, which stood on Chinatown’s Bloody Angle…
PM Photos by Weegee
Doyers St.
Site of 8 Doyers St.
Weegee Daily, January 17, 1941
No fires, and not much sign of life… except for retro Dim Sum Parlor at the end…
WD Photos by Ceegee
PM Daily, January 16, 1942, p. 32
Ruffled Raffles is John Meryett who confesses he robbed Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt after her daughter’s wedding in Hollywood. He tried to hold up a finance company here yesterday…
PM Photo by Weegee
PM Daily, January 16, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 152, p. 32
Gunman Doesn’t Want His Picture Taken
For the first time since Bruno Hauptmann, police today permitted photographers in the line-up room at headquarters. The subject was Anthony Esposito, under indictment with his brother, William for the murder of a business man and a policeman in Tuesday’s tragic Battle of Fifth Ave. The angry gunman ducked after Weegee took the above.
The detectives, manacled to Esposito, didn’t want their names or pictures in the papers. They obliged by turning around, holding the gunman by head and arm so he couldn’t duck again. The yard-stick (top photo) is on the line-up platform, where Esposito had stood, refusing to answer question. “He looked like a sullen, surly, snarling animal,” Weegee reported. “He stumbled and sagged over to one side like a drunk.”
Photos by Weegee, PM Staff
We returned to the scene of the crime, 365 Fifth Ave., the former B. Altman & Co building… We followed the route of the “vicious movie-type Dead End Kids, gun-toters in their teens” gunmen, where the first murder occurred, from 6 East 34th St, (building is now gone). Then the two gunmen ran across the street and entered Altman’s, ran through Altman’s and left through a Madison Ave. exit. Then they ran around to Fifth Ave., in front of a five and dime… Ghosts are all that remain…
Weegee “reporting” again…
Photos by Ceegee, WD Staff
PM Daily, January 15, 1941
PM Daily, January 16, 1941
A Weegee Daily Map!
PM Daily, January 14, 1943, Vol. 3, No. 181, p.2
“Shading his face from photographers, Carmine Galante is taken from Police Headquarters to the District Attorney’s office for questioning.”
PM Photo by Weegee
(Carmine Galante [rarely seen without a cigar, according to wikipedia] was of course not charged with the Tresca murder…)
PM Daily, January 14, 1943, Vol. 3, No. 181, p.2
PM Daily, January 13, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 149, p. 32
Fire Lieutenant Rescues Woman from Fourth Floor of Burning Building
“This is how Weegee got these pictures…”
“This is how Ceegee got these pictures…”
Weegee Daily Map!
(To be continued…)
PM Daily, January 13, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 149. p. 19
“Times” Reporter Retires After 34 Years at Police Headquarters
Photographs and Words by Weegee
…”John Gordon leaves the ‘Block,’ the dingy alley behind Police Headquarters. He’s off to Florida to fish, golf, and play poker. Good luck to you, John. And ’30.'” – Weegee
Weegee Daily, January 13, 2013
An early publication of Weegee’s words… (From December 1940 there was The Christmas Story, Ermine Wrapped Patrons… And of course Coney Island, in July)
The text is heavily edited, yet retains some of the Weegee charm: “(I’ve often wondered what a Times editorial writer looks like. Personally, I prefer Winchell. The Times editorials are all double talk to me.)”
Photographs and words by Ceegee
(To be continued…)
…Bullets End a Stormy Career in Labor History
Police photographer snaps the end of the trail of Carlo Tresca, one-time Anarchist, one-time Wobbly, more recently militant and anti-fascist.
PM Daily, January 12, Vol. 3, No. 179, p. 3
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, January 12, 2013
15th Street and 5th Ave, 2013…
Sight of the slaying… Fashion and Anti-fascism…
oblivious to the
history, a shopper
steps over the
“anarchist’s” blood spilled
in labor’s struggle,
shot in the
head, like light,
or coffee and
chewed chewing gum,
preserved in an
amber concrete photograph,
pedestrian
Then and now:
From PM Daily, January 12, 1943, p. 2: “Tresca was shot down gangster-style, within a half block of the office of his semi-monthly newspaper, Il Martella (The Hammer), an Italian-language publication that carried on an incessant fight against fascism.”
From the bebe website: “bebe is the go-to destination for chic, contemporary fashion. The brand evokes a mindset – an attitude, not an age. It’s a true original, always defining fashion’s next stride forward. Designed for the confident, sexy, modern woman, bebe is a global label that embodies a sensual, sophisticated lifestyle.”
PS.
Weegee’s photo was not is every issue of PM published on January 12, 1943. Perhaps only a later edition. The Corbis website and Museum of the City of NY blog have variants of the Tresca murder.
WD Photos by Ceegee
(To be continued/edited…)
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