PM Daily, March 2, 1942
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Entirely Irrelevant… “Here’s one for the museums!”
“Hurrell chose a stack of boogie-woogie records and turned the photograph to top volume. Then, singing, he rushed around. He’d poke a light; rush back to look at the camera; dance around to cover a bit of leg and reveal a bit of bosom; charge back to the camera; all the time uttering wild cries; “That’s it,” “A cup of coffee, daddy,” “Too much,” “Aaaaaaah, that’s what the doctor ordered.” His assistant thew a film in the camera – Hurrell drew back for a cool, last look – yelled “Here’s one for the museums,” and pressed the shutter bulb. The o”one for the museums” is right below. – Ralph Steiner”
PM Daily, March 1, 1942
Weegee Daily… February 17, 1942… Eight Stars…
PM Daily, February 17, 1942
Eight Stars…
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, February 17, 2013
One Moon, One Star, a Half Light (and a Broom?)
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee
Weegee Daily… February 4, 1942… New York has its own problem of repressing prostitution…
PM Daily, February 4, 1942
New York has its own problem of repressing prostitution…
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, February 4, 2013
Weegee Daily Photo by Ceegee
Police Department…
Weegee Daily Map!
Weegee Daily… February 3, 1942… Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup…
PM Daily, Febuary 3, 1942, p. 11, Vol. II, No. 164
Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup
The boys were playing a little pool and cards in the Spring Arrow Social and Athletic Club, 344 Broome St., near the Bowery last night. Patrolman Eligio Sarro, off duty, went in for a pack of cigarets. Four men entered. “This is a stick-up,” the leader muttered. Sarro was a little slow getting his hands out of his overcoat pockets. “Get ’em up,” ordered the leader, Sarro did. One hand held a gun. When he got through firing, the leader was dead.
The usual curious crowd gathered after the gunman, fatally wounded, staggered from the entrance. He was about 22, dark and chunky. Police said he was Andrew Izzo with a record of six arrests.
Patrolman Sarro smokes a cigaret a few minutes after he dropped the gunman. He’s assigned to the Empire Blvd. precinct in Brooklyn. He lives only a few doors from the club.
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily, February 3-4, 2013
Off Duty Photographer Does Duty, Shoots Photo…
The boys and girls were looking at lights and bulbs in the Grand Lighting and Parts, 344 Broome St., near the Bowery tonight…
344 Broome St., February 4, 2013
NY Times, February 3, 1942
Weegee Daily… February 1, 1942… When Brooklyn Mattress Factory Burned…
PM Daily, February 1, 1942
When Brooklyn Mattress Factory Burned
yesterday (at 249 Willoughby St., opposite Raymond St. jail), three alarms were turned in. Photo made about dawn.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, February 1, 2013
When Brooklyn Tree Grows
(yesterday at approximately 249 Willoughby St., opposite The Brooklyn Hospital, and near the Prison Ship Marty’s Monument). Photo made at 7:37 PM.
Weegee Daily Photo by Ceegee
Weegee Daily Map!
(Great web pages on Raymond St. Jail here and here…)
PM Daily, February 17, pp. 18-19
(Photos by Leo Lieb)
“…medieval Brooklyn lockup…”
Weegee Daily… January 25, 1942… Two Passengers Are Killed As Auto Dives Into Hudson…
PM Daily, January 25, 1942, Vol. 2, No. 32, p. 11
Two Passengers Are Killed As Auto Dives Into Hudson
Police Raise Connecticut Auto that plunged into the Hudson at 29th St. Saturday. Two people (one in car window) were killed…
A Street Cleaner, Charles Sharkey, heard screams, helped rescue driver (third person in car) who had managed to get out…
The Driver, Burton Chapin, was taken to a waterfront shack to get over the shock. He still grasps driver’s license.
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily, January 25, 2013
No Pedestrians Are Killed…
Looking into the Hudson at 29th St. Thursday. No people were killed…
It was too cold for this, 17 degrees and very, very windy…
The piers are no longer present… below a small heliport; across the street from something like a sanitation parking/working area… My right hand is frozen… He still grasps a camera…
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee
Weegee Daily… January 16, 1942… Ruffled Raffles…
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
Weegee Daily, January 16, 2013
Ruffled Raffles is a photo of The (chic?) Ramones in a window across the street from the old Police Headquarters… Ruffled Raffles is waiting 1.5 hours at 10:30 PM at MoMA to see (or not see) The Clock… Ruffled Raffles is not the amazing art of A.Zittel…
Weegee Daily, Photo by Ceegee
Weegee Daily… July 23, 1942
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Weegee, PM Daily, July 23, 1942
Rationing of gasoline via permanent coupons started yesterday. In the photo, cars lined up in front of stations without gas. Sam Fromen, junkman, and his faithful steed had laugh on autoists at this Seventh Ave. station. Later in the day, after stations got gas, motorists stayed away in droves. Afraid of disappointment, perhaps. PM Photo by Weegee
Ceegee, Weegee Daily, July 23, 2012
Irrational. No rationing on this Seventh Ave. block. The gulf between the past and the present is thicker than bricks… WD Photo by Ceegee
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We let our fingers do the walking to find this location… According to the 1940 Manhattan telephone book (courtesy of NYPL), there were two Bricks Service Stations on 7th Ave. The one at 161 7th Ave. is behind the Gulf gas station in Weegee’s photo. A local resident on a bike helped us identify the “art deco” building in the background…
Close, but no cigar…
The Google Street view of the Weegee photo.
70 Years Ago Today…
WEEGEEWEEGEEWEEGEE 