It only took 15 minutes for the Boston nightclub to become a deadly inferno. On November 28, 1942, a quick and deadly fire spread through Cocoanut Groves night club. It was the worst nightclub fire in ...

Sitting just a few feet away, Joyce Spector Mekelburg watched a busboy light a match to better see in the moody darkness of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub’s Melody Lounge as he reached high to replace a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Nov. 28, 1942, fire engulfed the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, killing 492 people in the deadliest nightclub blaze ever.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fire that tore through an assisted living facility on July 13, killing nine and injuring 30, was the deadliest fire in ...

Like many patrons of Boston’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub on Nov. 28, 1942, Bob Shumway and his friend Dick Moulton walked in after attending the famous college football game at Fenway Park earlier that ...

The interior of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub after the fire. Flickr When fire swept across the dance floors and bars of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, the emergency exits were locked (according to some ...

Entertainment A play about the infamous Cocoanut Grove fire is coming to Boston this weekend Inferno: Fire at the Cocoanut Grove 1942 will run for more than a month at the Plaza Theatre, Boston Center ...

A nightclub fire that claimed an astounding 492 lives — but has since been largely forgotten — is being revisited in a new off-Broadway play. “Inferno! Fire at the Cocoanut Grove: 1942” will premier ...

Eighty years ago, one of the worst events in the history of Boston claimed the lives of 490 people and injured 166 more as the now-infamous Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire. And next year, and the annual ...