Today In History, 1942....Boston's Cocoanut Grove Fire

[+ azdr0710]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoanut_Grove_fire

https://bostonfirehistory.org/the-story-of-the-cocoanut-grove-fire/

https://www.businessinsider.com/cocoanut-grove-fire-deadliest-nightclub-history-photos

https://www.fireengineering.com/leadership/trial-proves-criminal-negligence-at-cocoanut-grove-fire/#gref

The site is now occupied by a high-rise hotel's parking garage with much of the neighborhood and roads altered.....the club's notorious revolving doors were very near the current intersection of Piedmont and Cocoanut Grove Lane.....next time you use revolving doors, look for adjacent normal outward-opening doors, a direct result of this disaster and code-updates......

 

Edited November 28, 2021 by azdr0710

[+ WilliamM]

I remember my parents talking about the fire. My dad was apparently concerned that his sister and brother in law were there after a Boston College football game.

A justified concern!

[curt gregory]

My mother was 20 when this happened, and living in Connecticut.  She taught all her kids to look for the exit whenever we went in any public building and know our escape route, referring to her memory of the Cocoanut Grovel fire.

And I still do it!