Episode 58: The West Plains dance hall explosion

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It was just supposed to be a fun night of dancing to a jazz orchestra just like every other Friday in West Plains, Missouri. But on a rainy Friday the 13th in April of 1928, a dangerous secret lurked in the garage on the first floor, one which threatened the lives of every happy dancer on the second floor on the building.

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0:57.3	Thank you very much for listening, and welcome to disaster area.
1:06.2	Episode 58.
1:10.2	The West Plains Dance Hall Explosion.
1:13.1	April 13th, 1928.
1:15.7	39 deceased, about 16 injured.
1:19.0	If there's one thing I love to do when it comes to this podcast, it's set the mood with music.
1:24.4	Sometimes there's a song that's playing when disaster strikes that I listen to as
1:28.2	research and then never see the same way again. When the Ringling Brothers Big Top caught fire
1:33.4	in Hartford, Connecticut in 1944, the band began to play Stars and Stripes forever because it was
1:39.2	a warning to circus folks that an emergency was happening. The band Great White was just starting the song Desert Moon,
1:46.0	when their pyro lit up the foam glued to the walls to deaden the sound behind the stage
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