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On This Date in 1946 ….

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….. One of America’s most-deadly hotel fires occurred in Atlanta, Georgia.  The Winecoff Hotel, a supposedly “fireproof building,” had an early morning fire that killed 119 people.

Two years ago on this anniversary date, Dave Statter published a good historic review of the fire and an interesting side-note to the occasion that happened just two days before his posting in STATter911.

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CLICK HERE to read the poignent story of the fire and the subsequent story of the amateur photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize because of it.

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