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Around 6:45 pm, an intense explosion occurred on Boylston Street between Washington and Tremont Streets—an area known as the Combat Zone. [2] The blast tore up a 50-foot (15 m) section of sidewalk and part of the street. The floor under the Paramount Hotel's cocktail lounge collapsed and around 30 of its patrons fell into the basement.
The Hotel Vendome Fire Memorial commemorates victims of the Hotel Vendome fire. It is installed along Boston's Commonwealth Avenue Mall, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. [1] [2] The work was designed by the artist Ted Clausen and landscape architect Peter White. [3] A group of firefighters originally proposed the memorial in 1982, but it was ...
Ruins of the Great Boston Fire of 1872 Aftermath of the Grover Shoe Factory disaster (1905) Great Chelsea fire of 1908 Streetcar involved in the Summer Street Bridge disaster (1916) being raised from the river Wreckage of the Great Molasses Flood (1919) Damage from the 1953 Worcester tornado Andrea Doria sinking (1956) Wreckage of Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 (1960) Wreckage of the 1967 ...
The name "Combat Zone" was popularized through a series of exposé articles on the area Jean Cole wrote for the Boston Daily Record in the 1960s. [1] The moniker described an area that resembled a war zone both because of its well-known crime and violence, and because many soldiers and sailors on shore leave from the Charlestown (Boston) Navy Yard frequented the many strip clubs and brothels ...
The collision destroyed all three locomotives, five Amtrak cars, and one MBTA coach. The tunnel suffered structural damage to its support columns. [1]: 7 Dartmouth Street, immediately above the tunnel, had to be resurfaced: during the collision the two trains jackknifed and created a hole in the street. Back Bay was closed for six days after ...
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The plume so intensely darkened the sky that street and residential lights with photocells designed to turn on at dusk were illuminated — human technology tricked by the inferno.
The Massachusetts Fallen Firefighters Memorial is a memorial in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The memorial was dedicated in 2007, and displayed 870 names, as of September 2014. [1]