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Post by rgs318 on Nov 29, 2022 9:08:54 GMT -5
Wasn't this case in some way related to "panic bars" that were installed on club doors and are to this day? I heard that the crowd pressing on the doors kept them from being opened inward. Interesting that they had doors in the club that opened inward so the hinges would be inside the door for better "security."
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Post by td128 on Nov 29, 2022 11:21:21 GMT -5
My grandfather, a Boston College grad Class of 1914 and as I have been told the first Irish Catholic to be admitted and graduate from Harvard Law -- stated with all due humility --, was a prosecuting attorney in one of the cases relating to the Cocoanut Grove.
Changes to the fire codes for establishments of this sort came out of this case.
In his closing argument, my grandfather recited many passages of Dante's Inferno.
"Serious' students in our midst may care to skim or further review the City of Boston Fire Department Report by Fire Commissioner William Arthur Reilly. This report is filled with voluminous details, floor plans, and chilling photographs.
bostonfirehistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2016/11/reportconcerningcocoanutgrovefire.pdf
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