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appalachiablue

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2. Certainly a timely subject. Thanx for your history posts on this terrible tragedy. We visited AM on occasion

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Wed Feb 4, 2026, 09:36 AM

Wednesday

years ago, and a relative worked at a restaurant there, 18th and Columbia but I never knew about this awful disaster. A real horror, and there were also collapses and safety issues at music halls, theaters, workplaces during this period..

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Thanks, and good for WJLA for saying somerhing. mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday #1

Certainly a timely subject. Thanx for your history posts on this terrible tragedy. We visited AM on occasion appalachiablue Wednesday #2