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  • The Iroquois Theatre Fire

    The Iroquois Theatre Fire

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    Chicago, December 30, 1903.  Fire, smoke and chaos caused by fear, killed over six hundred soles today at the new Iroquois Theatre on Randolph Street. That’s the way the lead story in the Chicago Sun-Times began on the morning of December 31, 1903.  A grusome story of death and suffering that need not have happened.…

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Timothy Van Staden
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The Blue Truck is an Alabama legend based on a true story. The names are fictional, but the 1938 Chevrolet, one-half ton pickup truck was real and was a truck with style. Some say it was the most attractive and impressive looking truck of the early 20th century.

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