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Cocoanut Grove Fire

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ISBN-10: 1889833886

ISBN-13: 9781889833880

Edition: 2005

Authors: Stephanie Schorow, Robert J. Allison

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For many Bostonians, Saturday, November 28, 1942, was supposed to be about college football. The undefeated Boston College team had only to beat lightly regarded Holy Cross to assure a trip to the Sugar Bowl. But Holy Cross stunned BC 55-12 and by midnight Boston was faced with a far greater shock. Four hundred ninety-two people-including many BC and Holy Cross fans, not to mention soldiers and sailors on leave-had perished in flames at the Cocoanut Grove, in the worst nightclub fire in U.S. history. The tragedy was over in a matter of minutes as flames and fumes swept through the two-story boite, and the exits that weren't locked were jammed with panicked patrons. Some escaped through…    
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Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Applewood Books
Publication date: 3/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 84
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.54" long x 0.29" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Stephanie Schorow is a Boston-based freelance writer, author, teacher and artist. She is the author of The Crime of the Century: How the Brink's Robbers Stole Millions and the Hearts of Boston; East of Boston: Notes from the Harbor Islands (The History Press, 2008); Boston on Fire: A History of Fires and Firefighting in Boston; and The Cocoanut Grove Fire. She was the editor of Boston's Fire Trail: A Walk Through the City's Fire and Firefighting History (The History Press, 2007). She has spent thirty years working for various news organizations, including the Boston Herald, the TAB chain, the Stamford Advocate and the Associated Press. She currently works as a freelancer for the Boston…    

Foreword
Introduction
Prologue
Boston's Number One Glitter Spot
The Day of the Fire
Into the Inferno
Fighting the Blaze
Medical Breakthroughs
The Aftermath, Investigation, and Trial
What Caused the Fire?
The Long Road to Recovery
The Legacy of the Cocoanut Grove
Acknowledgments
Sources
Index