PHOTOS: The weekend after Thanksgiving in 1942, a teenage Ina Fay Cutler was glued to her radio. There was news of a terrible fire that broke out at a nightclub in Boston where her mother, Jeannette Zall had spent her evening. โYou held your breath to hear your mother’s nameโ listed among the injured, Cutler remembered. โIt was such a shock.โ
But she wouldn’t hear her mother’s name. The 35-year-old Jeannette Zall had tagged along with a group of people to the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, an โitโ spot in Boston at the time. Sheโd never been to a nightclub before. The decision would be a deadly one.
Fire ripped through the club, killing nearly 500 people and injuring over a hundred more. It remains the deadliest fire in Boston history, and the deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. For those left behind, their losses remain raw, even 83 years later.
