PM Daily, December 26, 1940.
First Aid fails to revive Paul Ryan, killed by a gas explosion in his apartment at 865 First Ave. Police said it was apparently suicide. The Christmas night blast shock the 17-story building and injured two house employes. PM photo by Weegee.
Boring photos fail to revive pedestrian… One of the eight million stories in the 17-story building ends and the building remains surprisingly intact… Weegee Daily photos by Ceegee.
It’s No Trick that makes this steeplejack look as high up as the Chrysler Building needle – just the camera angle. He’s Andy Collins, 1074 Summit Ave., Bronx, painting the 60-foot pole atop the 38-story Commerce Building, 155 E. 44th St. Photo by Weegee
It’s No Trick that makes the Chrysler Building look like the Chrysler Building – just the camera angle…
Photos by Ceegee
Ermine-Wrapped Patron Caught in the Gambling Den…
A gold-lame evening bag shields her face as one of 50 carriage-trade gamblers ducks out of 18 E. 68th St. after raiders early yesterday interrupted their $5 to $1000-a-chip roulette game. Cops sent the customers home but confiscated the equipment and held five men as operators, including George Herrick, 45, described by detectives as successor to Arnold Rothstein. PM Photo by Weegee
Plain-Clothes Men Raid $1000-a-Chip Society Gambling Spot
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee
PM Daily, December 23, 1940, p15. PM photos by Weegee
Home For Christmas Are the Soldiers From Alabama.
“For nearly seven hours wives, girl friends, mothers and fathers swarmed into Pennsylvania Station to greet 5000 men returning from Fort McClellan, Anniston, Ala., on Christmas furlough. The special sections ran far behind schedule but the festive spirit of the crowd overwhelmed any feeling of boredom at the delay. The off schedules were caused by heavy traffic on southern routes of other trains distributing the new trainees throughout the country for the holidays. Then, too, special stops had to be made to take aboard more drinking water and sandwiches. Here, part of the crowd waits.”
Weegee Daily, December 23, 2012. WD photos by Ceegee
“…People swarmed Grand Central Station… the Apple store overwhelmed any feeling of boredom. Here, part of the crowd walks and waits and photographs…”
Ticking of the clock brought on police investigation. PM Photo by Weegee
“Police Solve Mystery of Ticking Suitcase
But Virtually Ruin Contents By Soaking It in Oil.
An attendant at the Pennsylvania Station parcel-checking room wasn’t taking any chances yesterday when he picked up a suitcase and heard a ticking noise inside it. He called the police.
Bomb squad detectives took the suitcase to a nearby parking lot, soaked it in oil and opened it. They found an alarm clock, the hands indicating 5:28; three pairs of women’s shoes, a raincoat, a meat chopper, two flatirons, two brushes and woman’s undies.
The suitcase was returned to the checkroom, the contents a bit the worse for the oil.”
Ticking of the clock brought on photographer’s investigation… WD Photos by Ceegee
Our intrepid photographer went to the Pennsylvania Station/Madison Square Garden parking lot and found a sidewalk soaked in oil, two K-9 police patrol cars, 3 Port Authority police cars, and many barricades…
The highlight of “17 days!” is Mayor LaGuardia reading the funny papers, reading Dick Tracy, to the “kiddies” of all ages, and “solving the newspaper strike,” over WNYC radio…
(To paraphrase… “But what does it all mean?… Dirty money never brings any luck and/or love.”)
17 Days: The Story of Newspaper History in the Making
From the amazing Prelinger Archives…
At about 1 minute and 55 seconds into this entertaining bit of propaganda: “With the lone exception of PM…”
June 30, 1945…
Sold for $3,400
Sold for $2,400
SwannGalleries, 12/2012 auction… (Images from SwannGallery website.)
Pretty good prices for two-too often dismissed “distortions”…
PM Daily, December 3, 1941
You’ve Often Wondered What It Would be Like If One of Those Things Fell…
This is what… Rigging used to lift a boiler from a truck pulled the fire escape from the wall..
…yanking a big hunk of masonry out of the side of the house at 61st St. and Second Ave…
…allowing the boiler to crash to the sidewalk. Nobody was hurt.
PM Photos by Weegee
WD Daily, December 3, 2012
WD Photos by Google Street View
61st St. and Second Ave…
PM Daily, December 3, 1940, p. 10
“Fourteen persons were rescued by police and firemen during a fast burning fire in the 5-story Travelers Hotel, 209 Ninth Ave. this morning. Dense smoke and wailing sirens drew thousands of ferry commuters to the scene. Ferdinand Segara, 38, (above) who walks with two canes, Mrs. Mary Pappas and her daughter, Dixie, 5, were carried down extension ladders. He saved only his spare pair of shoes. Fire burned out three lower floors.”
Photos by Weegee, PM Staff
Weegee Daily, December 3, 2012, p. 1
Photos by Ceegee, WD Staff
Street View of 209 Ninth Ave.
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