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re: It was 75 years ago that over 200 people died in a Natchez nighclub fire.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 12:47 pm to prplhze2000
Posted on 8/16/15 at 12:47 pm to prplhze2000
Tha roof, tha roof, tha roof is on FIYUHHH....
Posted on 8/16/15 at 1:00 pm to prplhze2000
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men and women were sprawled grotesquely about on the floor like dead chickens
Wow!
This is a very vividly written article.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 1:05 pm to prplhze2000
And that was Natchez's last nightclub.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 1:08 pm to Swoopin
I'm wondering if the opposite is true. That the word holocaust was common until The Nazi's took it to an ungodly level and raised the bar on what it took to be a "holocaust".
Posted on 8/16/15 at 1:23 pm to BRIllini07
That is what I think to be the case.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 1:28 pm to prplhze2000
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That is still the second largest nightclub disaster in American history. Newspaper writers were much more colorful back then. Holocaust didn't have the same connotation it does now.
The club stood two blocks from my kids school. Memorial there now. Very tragic.
This post was edited on 8/16/15 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 8/16/15 at 1:43 pm to mikelbr
Article says most of the victims were 15 or 16 years old.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 1:49 pm to SEClint
I was about to ask if it was an all black club! Hmmm.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 1:54 pm to mikelbr
Also a small museum , pretty interesting ..
Posted on 8/16/15 at 2:25 pm to prplhze2000
That's a tragedy. I'm into ethnic ladies. I bet a couple of the victims were smoking.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 3:11 pm to BigPerm30
Most of them were probably underage, perv.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 3:26 pm to prplhze2000
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That article is very descriptive.
I noticed that right away. SO much info in there compared to some of the crap I read on the local news sites.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 3:31 pm to prplhze2000
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No mention of it in the media
Not to be an a-hole, but why is this sentence even in your post?
Posted on 8/16/15 at 3:44 pm to Breesus
75 years ago. One of the worst nightclub disasters ever. Not one mention of it in the local media this year in the Jackson area.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 3:53 pm to Makinbacon
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It's getting hot in hur.
So wrong, but so funny. Have an upvote.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 4:58 pm to prplhze2000
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Not one mention of it in the local media this year in the Jackson area.
Why would it be, that's what I'm asking.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 5:34 pm to Geaux2015
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Wow!
This is a very vividly written article.
"Deputy Sheriff William I. Herbert said after the blaze died down he got other negroes to help him remove the dead but soon discovered they were rifling the pockets of the corpses. Even as late as daylight, he said, he caught one sneak thief leaving with a cornet."
"Wow!" is right.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 5:40 pm to prplhze2000
pretty interesting stuff you post here from time to time, haze...
Posted on 8/16/15 at 5:44 pm to Spankum
I'm thinking about taking the front pages from 1940 and posting the ones that are WWII related. It's one thing to read about it in books or wathc movies. Another to see on a day by day basis.
At this time the Finnish war was real interesting.
At this time the Finnish war was real interesting.
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