PM Daily, March 23, 1944
Where There’s Smoke There Must Be a Picture
1. When fire broke out yesterday in the top floor of Lerner Shops on 14th St., every paper in town rushed photographers to the scene. Our Weegee, seeking an angle, arranged this interesting shot of a rescue…
2. Weegee (above) got Ruth Flax to pose with the victim… (“When I was taking a Mail Order Course in Photography,” Weegee’s caption memo to us explained, “the ‘Professor’ always advised me to put human interest in my fire pictures.”)…
3. Things got more complicated…
4. P. S. The fire? It was a dud. But we covered it!
Photos by Weegee, Dan Keleher and Arthur Leipzig

Weegee Daily, March 23, 2013

Where There’s a New Building It Must Be a Picture…
Photos by Ceegee

One of the best PM pages…

P. S. The building looks good as a negative…

To be continued…

69 Years Ago Today… “A Train Goes from Brooklyn…”

March 6, 2013

1944, subway

PM Daily, March 6, 1944, p. 12
“You could cut the air of nostalgia with a knife yesterday as the BMT train rolled sadly over the Brooklyn Bridge for the last time. These were passengers for the finale… Workmen close the elevated track forever and the line becomes a thing of the past. Passengers are instructed to use surface cars and transfer at Jay St. and Myrtle Ave… … A singularly cheerful crowd for such a melancholy occasion waves bye-bye from the rear of the last car.”
Photos by Wilbert H. Blanche

Dictionary of Fascism

March 5, 2013

1944

PM Daily, March 5, 1944

69 Years Ago Today… Inside Manhattan… Inside Western Union, on Roller Skates…

March 5, 2013

1944

PM Daily, March 5, 1944
“Inside Manhattan… by Grant Reynard
In one of the big operating rooms in the Western Union building at 60 Hudson St. I found scores of girls working on roller skates. About 150 girls use skates in this building. They roll noiselessly on waxed linoleum floors through a hubbub of mechanical racket, carrying telegrams… More power to the girls who zip around with pep and smoothness. You know the one about the postman who took a walk in the afternoon for exercise? Well, many of these girls spend their evenings skating at roller rinks. It looks like fun on wheels to me.”

Weegee Daily… February 1, 1944… Ritz, a puppy…

February 1, 2013

Weegee Daily

PM Daily, February 1, 1944
Ritz, a puppy belonging to William Kinsman, was one of the casualties of the two-alarm blaze at 157 W. 74th St. yesterday. Noticing the dog had a broken leg, a fireman wrapped him in a blanket and took him to the street.
PM Photo by Weegee