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Weegee Daily… August 1, 1943… The news about Mussolini…

August 1, 2013
1943, Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, August 1, 1943
The news about Mussolini comes to Broadway and 42d St.
This is how Joe Doakes received the news last Sunday that the Italians had kicked out Mussolini. Joe didn’t start waving his hat. He looked surprised, thoughtful – wary. Joe, in this case, was the New Yorker who, on his way into one of the first-run movie palaces in Times Square… had just spotted the CBS news flash… Weegee, who snapped away unnoticed by his subjects. “I would say they were hopefully waiting to see Adolf’s name up there, too.”
PHOTOS BY WEEGEE

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Weegee Daily, August 1, 2013
The news about the Naked City comes to Broadway and 44th St.
This is how the naked cowgirls and boys… spotted the ABC news flash…
PHOTOS BY CEEGEE

(to be continued…)

Weegee Daily… March 25, 1943… The Gotham Hotel Supply Co…

March 25, 2013
1943, Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, March 25, 1943
“The Gotham Hotel Supply Co., 401 W. 14th St., a subsidiary of Wilson & Co. received plenty of beef yesterday for its restaurant and hotel trade. Around the corner Wilson & Co. retail branch outlet, no meat was being sold to butchers.
PM Photo by Weegee”

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Weegee Daily, March 26, 2013
401 West 14th St… Plenty of Apples…
WD Photo by Ceegee

Weegee Daily… March 22, 1943… “Butter buyers suddenly jammed his shop…”

March 22, 2013
Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, March 22, 1943, p.18
“Harry Kaltman, who owns the dairy store at 125 Delancey St., had his whole family helping him behind the counter yesterday afternoon. Butter buyers jammed the shop to beat the midnight freezing order. Kaltman didn’t know why the rush was on until customers told him of the order. Like most storekeepers, he limited sales to one-quarter of a pound per customer.”

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Weegee Daily, March 22, 2013
Parking lot at 125 Delancey St., next to the “as old as hills” liquor store, no more butter buyers…

Weegee Daily Map!

Weegee Daily… March 14, 1943… Boy from the Richelieu meets girl at the Stage Door Canteen…

March 14, 2013
1943, Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, March 14, 1943
Boy from the Richelieu meets girl at the Stage Door Canteen…
PHOTO BY WEEGEE

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Weegee Daily, March 14, 2013
Boy from Jekyll & Hyde startles girl on sidewalk in front of the old Stage Door Canteen…
216 West 44th St. sign on wall…
PHOTO BY CEEGEE

“Stage Door Canteen” is more than wartime nostalgia that dredges up disposable, propagandistic ditties with an attitude of serious fun. It is an informative piece of history that remembers the first Stage Door Canteen, a hospitality center created by the American Theater Wing in the basement of a Broadway theater at 216 West 44th Street, where celebrities and servicemen could mingle. On any given night it could accommodate 3,500 people. Alcohol was not served.” (from the NY Times)

Cinema Treasures website.

Stage Door Canteen movie on archive.org.

THIS IS PM… (60 years ago today)

March 14, 2013
PM Daily

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PM Daily March 14, p. 17
We are against people who push people around, wether they flourish in this country or abroad.
We are against fraud and deceit and greed and cruelty and we will seek to expose their practitioners.
We are for people who are kindly and courageous and honest.
We respect intelligence, sound accomplishment, open-mindedness, religious tolerance.
We do not believe all mankind’s problems are now being solved successfully by any existing social order, certainly not our own, and we propose to crusade for those who seek constructively to improve the way people live together.
We are Americans and we prefer democracy to any other principle of government.

(From the original Prospectus of PM)