Site of the Cocoanut Grove Fire (Boston, Massachusetts)
Heather sends me the following description from Boston-Online.Com: “The Cocoanut Grove Fire – Piedmont Street, Bay Village. On Nov. 28, 1942, the Cocoanut Grove was crowded with revelers. Fire broke out. But except for a revolving door at the front, the exits were locked. And that door quickly jammed. Some 492 people died – many piled up by the door – in the worst fire disaster in U.S. history. The fire led to dramatic changes in fire codes (and to this day, Massachusetts fire departments are among the toughest in the country in enforcing them). Many of the survivors had their lives saved by a revolutionary new drug – penicillin.”