| The Cocoanut Grove Fire Contributor(s): Schorow, Stephanie (Author), Allison, Robert (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1889833886 ISBN-13: 9781889833880 Publisher: Commonwealth Editions OUR PRICE: $12.82 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2012 Annotation: 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. Some escaped through luck, fate, or guile (a busboy stuck his head in an ice cream bucket to avoid the fumes), but many more died horrible deaths. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 974.461 |
| LCCN: 2004026444 |
| Series: New England Remembers |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 5.6" W x 8.54" (0.31 lbs) 84 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Locality - Boston-Worcester, Mass. - Chronological Period - 20th Century |