The Cocoanut Grove fire was a nightclub fire which took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1942, and resulted in the deaths of 492 people. It is the deadliest nightclub fire in history and the third-deadliest single-building fire (after the …

The Cocoanut Grove was a restaurant/supper club (nightclubs did not officially exist in Boston), built in 1927 and located at 17 Piedmont Street, near Park Square, in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Piedmont Street was a narrow cobblestoned street (now paved) located near the Park Square theater district, running from Arlington Street to Broadway.

"World famous cocoanut grove" at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California in the 1930s (Tichnor Bros. postcard) The Cocoanut Grove was a nightclub inside the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. It featured lavish …

Nov 27, 2017 · Nearly 500 people died at The Cocoanut Grove that night in the United States’ most deadly nightclub disaster. The fire was the product of a hardened entrepreneur’s greed—but for years, a...

Dec 28, 2023 · To this day, the Cocoanut Grove is remembered as the location of the deadliest nightclub fire and second deadliest single-building fire in American history, only surpassed by a 1903 fire at Chicago’s Iroquois Theatre that took 602 lives.

Cocoanut Grove Fire, one of the deadliest fires in American history that led to significant improvements in safety laws. WHEN: November 28, 1942. WHERE: Cocoanut Grove nightclub, Piedmont Street, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Jan 23, 2025 · A minute-by-minute account of the most famous disaster in American History--the fire in Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub that, on November 28, 1942, claimed 491 lives.

Nov 16, 2023 · The Cocoanut Grove was a popular nightclub built in 1927 and located at 17 Piedmont Street near the Park Square theater district in Downtown Boston. On November 28, 1942, a fire occurred at the nightclub.

On a cold late November night in 1942, in the Bay Village neighborhood of Boston, the Cocoanut Grove nightclub was absolutely hopping. The Grove, as it was called by the locals, was a well-known hangout in that area of the city.

Nov 11, 2024 · From 1931 to 1933, however, the Grove lost much of its original respectability by functioning as the de facto nighttime headquarters for Boston’s most infamous, feared and high-powered mobsters; the venue became their go-to place for wining, dining and otherwise bribing politicians and law-enforcement officials.