Re: Cocoanut Grove

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

I'd be suspicious of any recording offered. Tape and even wire recorders did 
not yet exist at the time. Home recording equipment was nearly non-existent. 
Maybe someone had adapted an office Dictaphone (I think they used wax 
cylinders) to home off-air recording. Station air-checks on 16-in. 
transcription disks would be the most likely--if anyone had the time and the 
prsesnce of mind to make one. The idea that someone would cut an ET for 
breaking news at a local station seems kind of unlikely, though not impossible.
--
dan.strassberg@att.net
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> Hi:
> 
> Recent events have prompted discussion of the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston
> in 1942.
> 
> I understand local radio stations broke into regular programming with news
> bulletins, etc.
> 
> Does anyone have any recordings of these?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tom Z.
> Wolfeboro, NH
>