#3 aug.

This motorist could get plenty of water and air if he wished, but no gasoline, August 3, 1941. He pulled into this station, asked the attendant to “fill 'er up,” but was told that it was closed, observing the blackout that shut down 100,000 stations on the east coast at 7 p.m., to conserve petroleum products.

Opera singers William Warfield and Leontyne Price, who were then starring in a production of Porgy and Bess, were married at the Abyssinian Baptist Church on August 3, 1952. Performing the ceremony is the Rev. David Nathaniel Licorish, with the attendants, William Holmes, Jr, left, and Urylee Leonardos, right, watching. The entire company came up from Washington, D.C., where the production was in its pre-Broadway tryouts, to attend the ceremony.

Three men in front of the dispensing kitchen of the Greater New York Philanthropic Society, August 3, 1932. This was a soup kitchen where substantial meals were served to the hungry for the price of one penny. The restaurant had begun in 1908 but undoubtedly found its raison d'être during the Depression.

The "Boomps-a-Daisy," a new dance from England, was demonstrated at the Dancing Masters of America convention on August 3, 1939. The couple shown here, Ruth Mason of Newark, N.J., and Carlton Richardson of Athol, Mass., are doing the first step which consists of hands in “patty-cake” fashion. Is Carlton mocking Hitler?