The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire w/ Stephanie Schorow
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- On November 28, 1942, fire roared through Boston's famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub during what was supposed to be a high-spirited Saturday night. By midnight, more than five hundred people were dead, dying, or maimed for life.
My guest, Boston historian and author Stephanie Schorow, walks us through the history of the nightclub, the possible causes of the tragic fire, the devastation it caused, and the aftermath. Her book is called "The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire: A Boston Tragedy".
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Had Barry Manilow’s Copacabana in my head throughout the podcast.
Are you retarded?
I love your podcast at night i listen to them all to sleep. I live in N ky can you do a show on the mob controlled Beverly Hills Supper Club that burned and killed 165 in 1977
Wycliff hotel in 1940s Atlanta GA?
Whatever happened to the S Bahn Killer episode?
I had to search 'S BAHN KILLER'. If that kind of thing interests you I recommend that you look into Reg Christie, aka John Christie.
He was also a serial killer who used the blackouts in London (rather than Berlin) and the chaos of war to commit his many murders.
His neighbour, Tim Evans, was hanged for one of the murders that now seems obviously to have been one of Christie's murders.
Tim Roth played Christie in RILLINGTON PLACE, 2016 (3 X 58m episodes) Richard Attenborough played him in 10 RILLINGTON PLACE, 1971.
Many Bostonians claim a connection to this fire? Just about everyone in Edinburgh, Scotland, claims Sean Connery had been their milkman.
Connery worked as a milkman from July 1944 (6 weeks before his 14th birthday) until he entered the Royal Navy in 1946, aged 16 (so after 25th August).
Irvine Welsh sarcastically speculated that Connery must have had a milk round that covered ALL of Edinburgh - because EVERYONE claimed Sean delivered their milk.
Bear in mind that this was 1944-46, when 454,000 lived in Edinburgh - and 99.9% of them had their milk delivered to their doorstep six mornings every week.