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District of Columbia

erronis

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2. Thanks for all of those additional details.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 28, 2024, 02:45 PM

Jan 2024

I'm DC born and have spent a lot of time there over the years. I have never read or known anything about this disaster.

Many times I've walked up Columbia or 18th St. and not known this history.

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On the night of Saturday, January 28, 1922, the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapsed. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 OP

Over a century later, the pain of D.C.'s deadliest disaster still resonates mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 #1

Thanks for all of those additional details. erronis Jan 2024 #2

The snowfall set a record in Baltimore too. mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 #3

Here's an anecdote that's hard to beat: mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 #4