"MUSIC-LOVING ROBBERS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY"

RESTAURANT BANDITS WANT MUSIC TO ROB BY

New York City (JFK+50) On March 23, 1926, four robbers held up 70 people, including 35 diners, at the Owl Restaurant located at West 45th Street near Times Square here in New York.

According to Associated Press, four men entered the establishment "with drawn revolvers" ordering the orchestra to play while they took $350 from the cash register and "small amounts" from some patrons.

Police, alerted to the crime in progress by entertainers who went out the back door, took the music-loving bandits into custody.

SOURCE

"Bandits Demand Music as They Rob Cafe Patrons," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., March 23, 1926, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/

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"THE HAPPINESS WAS INDESCRIBABLE. IT WAS A VERY LONG KISS"

ICONIC TIMES SQUARE PHOTO:  "THE KISS"

New York City (JFK+50) On August 14, 1945, the largest crowd in history jammed into Times Square here in the Big Apple to celebrate the surrender of Japan.  There were many kisses about Times Square, but the one best remembered was between a sailor and a nurse that was captured by two photographers for posterity.

One taken by Alfred Eisenstaed was published the following day in the New York Times and later in Life Magazine.  Another photo taken by Lt. Victor Jorgensen is part of a National Archives collection.

Neither photographer was able to get the names of the sailor and the nurse, but in 1978 Edith Shain identified herself as the girl in the photograph.  She was born in Tarrytown, NY on July 29, 1918 and graduated from New York University.  She moved to Los Angeles shortly after the war.  

The young lady delayed coming forward because she thought "the kiss" to be less than "dignified," but at the age of 60, she decided "times had changed."
Ms. Shain described the circumstances as..."The happiness was indescribable.
It was a very long kiss." 

SOURCES

"Edith Shain Who Said Famous Kiss Came Her Way Dies at 91," by Richard Goldstein, New York Times, June 24, 2010, www.nytimes.com/

The American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/


 

"Kissing the War Goodbye" 
Times Square, NY City
August 14, 1945
Photo by Lt. Victor Jorgensen
National Archives Image

    

                

THE HAPPINESS WAS INDESCRIBABLE, IT WAS A VERY LONG KISS.

KISSING WORLD WAR II GOODBYE

New York City (JFK+50) On August 14, 1945, the largest crowd in history jammed into Times Square here in New York to celebrate the surrender of Japan.  There were many hugs and kisses but the one best remembered was between a sailor and a nurse that was captured by photographers for posterity.

The most famous of the photographs was made by Alfred Eisenstaed and published the following day in the New York Times and later in Life Magazine.

That picture is still protected by copyright laws, but another shot of the same scene by Lt. Victor Jorgensen and titled "Kissing the War Goodbye,"  is part of the National Archives collection which you see below.  Neither photographer was able to get the names of the sailor and the nurse but in 1978 Edith Shain, who was 27 years old in 1945, wrote to Mr. Eisenstaed identifying herself as the girl in his iconic photograph.

Edith Shain was born in Tarrytown, NY on July 29, 1918 and graduated from New York University.  She moved to Los Angeles shortly after the war.  She delayed coming forward because she thought "the kiss" to be less than "dignified," but at the age of 60, she decided "times had changed."

Ms. Shain described the circumstances as...

"The happiness was indescribable.  It was a very long kiss." 

SOURCES

"Edith Shain Who Said Famous Kiss Came Her Way Dies at 91," by Richard Goldstein, New York Times, June 24, 2010, www.nytimes.com/

The American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/

"Kissing the War Goodbye"

Times Square, NY City

August 14, 1945

Photo by Lt. Victor Jorgensen

National Archives Image