PM Daily, December 2, 1940, p. 9
SUNDAY TRAFFIC: Frank Woods, 24, of 601 W. 173d St. drove down the West Side highway and didn’t make the sharp turn at 23d St. The only commentary is the sign above the sprung door. Woods got a cut lip.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, December 2, 2012, p. 1
SUNDAY TRAFFIC… West Side highway at 23d St…
WD Photo by Ceegee
Street View of 23d St and the West Side Highway…
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Grant Reynard, PM Daily, Sunday, November 27, 1943
“Four for a quarter.
The quick-photo places are packing them in this Fall. Girls, sailors and Army men crowd the little galleries. Some of the boys come in alone and sit in the bright lights of the tiny booths, wearing their manliest smiles as the cameras click. Girls make up and fix their hair at the mirrorsand, seated on low stools, freeze a startled smile on their pretty faces for their boyfriends…”
(More information about the great Grant Reynard, can be found here.)
PM Daily, November 26, 1943, photos by Morris Gordon
“American boys don’t beg.” That’s the slogan of the ragamuffin parade put on yesterday by the Madison Square Boys’ Club in an effort to stamp out the habit of street soliciting by children. Here boys representing many of the United Nations pass in the line of march…
The highlight of the parade was this group. Churchill and Roosevelt drive Hitler and Tojo by their respective necks. Procession started from 301 E. 29th St.
This bit of symbolism represents Mayor La Guardia thrashing the hide out of the Black Market. Esoteric stuff, eh?
Great NYPL blog post: “Thanksgiving Ragamuffin Parade.”
East 29th Street, looking west.
East 29th Street, looking east.
The ragamuffin has vanished…
PM Daily, November 25, 1943, p. 12
How to Wreck a Tavern – Cold Sober!
Federal men took care of Walsh’s Bar and Grill, 213 Tenth Ave. after the place was accused of taking bad care of its customers by selling bootleg liquor. First they stacked the wet goods on the bar…
…then they started to dismantle the place. Here they take the beer cooling system apart. According to Government boys, a number of local taverns were refilling standard bottles with the newly made stuff.
Then they took out the palms… …and the cash register… and the bar…
…and the cigaret machine… …and the juke box… …and the cat!
Photos by Weegee, PM
Weegee Daily, December 2, 2012
How to Wreck a Neighborhood – Cold Sober!
213 Tenth Ave.
Photos by Ceegee, WD
Weegee, PM Daily, November 24, 1941, p. 13
Cop Kills Holdup Man: A few minutes after he had held up an Essex Street lunchroom on the Lower East Side and shot a patron, Vincent Mannuzza, 31, was lying dead at the feet of the cop who shot him. Patrolman Laurence Cramer, right, shot and killed Mannuzza, after a two-block chase and is shown handing the gunman’s revolver to Sgt. Eugene Morland. The $20 loot taken from the restaurant lies in Mannuzza’s hat at his side. An ambulance surgeon crouches over the dead man who was shot in he head and back. Mannuzza shot a customer, Adam Zayko, 50, when he refused to go into the back room with two other customers and the mangaer of the lunchroom.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012, – Approximate location
WD Photo by Ceegee
Footnote, or, after a few minutes of Googling, two similar, yet slightly different accounts:
The Herald Statesman, Yonkers, N.Y., Monday, November 24, 1941, p. 5
The Niagara Falls Gazette, Monday, November 24, 1941, p. 22
Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – Approximate location
WD Photo by Ceegee
Weegee, PM Daily, November 24, 1940
2 Die in Wrecked Car
Dr. Albion O. Bernstein, 28, interne, and Miss. Helen Ayers, nurse at Beth Israel Hospital, were drowned early yesterday when his car plunged over the string piece and into the East River at Pier 60, East 21st St. Picture shows emergency squad men lifting Miss Ayers from the car. Photo by Weegee
Ceegee, Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – approximate location…
0 Die in Wrecked Car…Picture shows the remnants of what was perhaps, Pier 60, East 21st St. and the East River… Photo by Ceegee
Footnote, or, after a few minutes of Googling:
“The Bernstein Award
This national award, endowed by the late Morris J. Bernstein in memory of his son, a physician who died in an accident while answering a hospital call in 1940, is given to a physician or scientist who has made a significant contribution in medicine, surgery, or disease prevention during the previous calendar year.
The award consists of a check for $2000.00 and a citation. Information on the MSSNY Continuing Medical Education Program can be obtained here…”
(from the Internet… Albion O. Bernstein memorial Volume, 1943)
Ceegee, Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – approximate location…
PM Daily, November 22, 1943
PM Daily, November 28, 1943 (Photo by Skippy Adelman.)
PM Daily, November 24, 1943
(Review of Boris Godunoff by Robert A. Hague)
More info about the opera, including two reviews, one by Virgil Thompson:
Moussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” which opened the fifty-ninth season (or “Diamond Jubilee” year) of opera at the Metropolitan Opera House last night, is an ideal work for such an occasion. Like “Aida,” it is more a pageant than a play; also, like that other dependable opener of seasons, it is musically beautiful all over. One can come in late or leave early, or get stuck outside for a scene, without losing anything important to the continuity. One misses some good music, but there is always plenty more of that.
can be found here: http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/frame.htm
A nice (although we take issue with: “…his career had become something of a joke”) little article on the Smithsonian.com website, from 11/2005, here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/night-at-the-opera.html?c=y&page=1
LIFE December 6, 1943, pp. 38-39:
Coming soon: The Weegee Opera!!!
To be continued…
Weegee, “Cheetah dining out at Ciro’s”, 1951, 11″ x 14″
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Weegee, [Louis Armstrong and band and audience], ca. 1953, 8″ x 10″
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