Bringing Down The House -The Knickerbocker Theatre Disaster

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Washington’s largest snowstorm on record began during the evening of January 27, 1922. The weight of the record-breaking snow collapsed the roof of the popular Knickerbocker Theatre. The roof of the theater fell on scores of moviegoers, killing 98 and injuring 133. The disaster ranks as one of the worst in Washington’s history.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome once again to History Dweeps. I am Tim.
0:08.0	Welcome to the podcast where we take a light-hearted look at the dark side of history.
0:13.0	And the topic of our podcast today is the Knickerbocker theater disaster.
0:19.0	It was part of a disaster that occurred in Washington, D.C. back in
0:26.7	1922, there was a terrible blizzard that hit the D.C. area, well, actually the whole
0:32.7	eastern seaboard of the United States back in January of 1922 and the Knickerbocker
0:40.2	theater was a movie theater in Washington DC and a lot of people were
0:46.1	attending the theater to watch a movie movies are silent back then, and the roof collapse.
0:56.1	So a lot of people died.
0:57.1	So we're going to talk about this story.
1:01.1	But before we do, let me introduce my co-host.
1:05.0	I'm very happy to introduce the very lovely and talented, the Queen of Mean,
1:09.8	the Mistress of the macab pill poppin
1:12.5	penis loving brandy how are you today brandy i'm good timmy how are you i am well did you have a nice
1:19.7	weekend i had a very interesting weekend what happened of of note oh now that my child my kids are just crazy and I walk in on half conversations and have these
1:32.6	weird conversations with my children and...
1:35.6	How was young Noah?
1:37.2	Noah's decided that he has a girlfriend.
1:41.0	Oh, really?
1:41.8	She doesn't know it.
1:42.2	Now, no, he's five years old.
1:43.6	I had a lot of those. Yeah, he's five. And I told him, I really? She doesn't know. I know. I was just five years old. I had a lot of those.
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