(Weegee and Duchamp!)
(Best in show???)
(The Idiot Box, boxed…)
(to be continued…)
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A Page from History: January 18, 1943
Weegee, PM Daily, January 18, 1943, Vol.III, No.184, p.5
Thirteen-Ton Roosevelt Bust Placed Before Post Office
Heroic bust of President Roosevelt, 13 feet high, is lowered to its pedestal in front of the General Post Office, Eighth Ave. and 33d St. Its unveiling is set for today, to open officially the fund campaign of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Sculptor is Pvt. Stanley Martineau, U.S. Army, PM Photo by Weegee
A Page from History: January 18, 1943… There’s a barber shortage on the Bowery…
Weegee, PM Daily, January 18, 1943, Vol.III, No.184, p.7
Wartime New York:
Our Little Businessmen Bounced Around by War
Signs of the times are reproduced below. All were photographed this weekend in New York. The closings and removals had a variety of causes; drafting of proprietors, shortage of manpower, gas rationing that prevents regular customers from reaching retail establishments, shortage of materials for manufacture. Weegee, who took these pictures, reports that the Chinese laundries are closed in bunches, because the men are enlisting, or answering draft calls. Pool rooms and candy stores have been hit, partly by war, partly by removal of slot machines. PM Photos by Weegee
"It seemed that the whole world had assembled on this beach, casting off its sinful, soiled clothes, and had established a naked city…"
Uncle Moses: a novel, By Sholem Asch, p.134, 1918
Weegee, PM, July 22, 1940
“The entire beach, as far as the eye could see, was inundated with wet, barefoot, half-naked people. Bodies, bodies, bodies everywhere… ‘And here we are now, all lying naked on Coney Island beach.'”
Large number of similarities between this passage from Sholem Asch’s “Uncle Moses” and Weegee’s text and photo…
According to the NY Times, from a review of a re-release of the 1932 film: “‘Uncle Moses,’ which is based on a 1918 novel by Sholem Asch (originally published in The Jewish Daily Forward in serial form), offers today’s audiences a glimpse of Maurice Schwartz…” (Maurice Schwartz! Another Weegee connection…)
The book can be read, downloaded, etc. here…
Kitty and Siri… iriS and yttiK
PM Daily, June and July 1947
(Context: 1947)
Violins Over Broadway…
…Broadway Over Violins
Sure it was a sad and unfortunate inevitability when PM started to accept advertising, nevertheless some of the ads were kinda interesting… Graphically and typographically they add some contours and spark and liven up the texts…
A Weegee Google Books Ngram!
Weegee Google Books Ngram!
[Something to look forward to…]
Context: July 1947
(more info coming soon…)
A page from History: January 17, 1941
PM Daily, Jan. 17, 1941, 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.
Naked City: 1805 – 1946
After fooling around with Google’s “Books Ngram Viewer”:
Wee were inspired to attend Google University… [Bad joke! eds. note] We were inspired to search for all of the uses of the phrase: “Naked City” in Google Books. Wee thought, foolishly, that Weegee coined the phrase. Apparently that’s not true… (Obviously, if you click on the image it will get bigger.) Here’s Google Books’ “Naked City” from the beginning to the end…
1805 – A short and plain exposition of the Old Testament: with devotional …, Volume 5, p. 171, By Job Orton
1832 – Sketches from Venetian history, Volume 2, By Edward Smedley, p. 55
1854 – Chambers’ repository of instructive and amusing papers…, Volume 1, p.10
1855 – The Friend, Volume 28, p. 203
1880 – Memorial tributes to Daniel L. Harris: with biography and extracts from his… edited by Henry Martyn Burt, p. 308
1895 – The Pacific Reporter, Volume 41, By West Publ. Co., p. 1056
1896 – The Speaker, Volume 13, p. 343
1906 – Tibet, The Mysterious, By Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich, p.300
1920 – Uncle Moses: a novel, By Sholem Asch, p.134
1921 – The Century illustrated monthly magazine, Volume 103, edited by Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder, p.11
1921 – The American City, Volume 24, edited by Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold Sinley Buttenheim, p.474
1925 – A book of discovery: the history of the world’s exploration, from the earliest times to the finding of the South pole…, by Margaret Synge, p.554
1930 – Modern Canadian poetry, p.141
1931 – Twelve secrets of the Caucasus, p.V, p. 38, p.44, etc.
1936 – Louisiana conservation review, Volumes 5-6
1938 – Thrice a Stranger, by Vera Brittain
1945 – Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [A] Group 1. Books. New Series, By Library of Congress. Copyright Office
1946 – Journal of Photographic Society of America, Volume 12
[Weegee and Atget!!!]
1946 – LIFE, Aug. 12, 1946, Speaking of Pictures… [will credit the photographers ASAP]
Weegee’s World?
Weegee’s World got a lot smaller this morning when wee realized that Weegee’s World is in Ohio!
Yup:
Weegee, Ohio
zip code: 43947
If you’re driving from 5 Centre Market Place, you could follow this map, or these directions:
Leave:
5 Centre Market Pl
New York, NY 10013
1. Head southwest on Centre Market Pl toward Grand St 197 ft
2. Continue onto Baxter St 0.2 mi
3. Turn right at Canal St 0.6 mi
4. Turn right at I-78 W/Holland Tunnel Partial toll road 10.4 mi
5. Slight left at Interstate 78 Express W Partial toll road 9.3 mi
6. Merge onto I-78 W Partial toll road 126 mi
7. Merge onto I-81 S 36.6 mi
8. Take exit 52 for US-11 toward I-76/New Kingstown/Middlesex 0.2 mi
9. Keep right at the fork, follow signs for US-11 and merge onto US-11 S/Harrisburg Pike 1.0 mi
10. Take the ramp to I-76 W Toll road 0.5 mi
11. Take exit 201-202 to merge onto I-76 W toward Pittsburgh Toll road 65.7 mi
12. Continue onto I-70 W Toll road 86.0 mi
13. Take exit 75 to merge onto I-70 W toward Wheeling WV Partial toll road 67.1 mi
14. Slight left at I-470 W (signs for Columbus) 4.2 mi
15. Take exit 6 for OH-7 toward Bellaire/Bridgeport 0.6 mi
16. Turn right at OH-7 S/Jefferson St 6.4 mi
17. Take the exit 0.2 mi
18. Continue straight 0.2 mi
19. Keep left at the fork 0.2 mi
20. Turn right toward McGee Rd 151 ft
21. Take the 1st left onto McGee Rd 0.1 mi
Arrive:
Wegee, OH
Wegee??? Nevermind, either there’s a misspelling on the map, or Weegee’s World is as big as ever…
