On June 30 , 1974 an infamous nightclub fire killed 24 young men and women . The fire at Gulliver 's was the deadliest dance club fire in the United States in more than a generation ( the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston , on November 28 , 1942 , had killed 491 , and the Happy Land fire in the Bronx , on March 25 , 1990 , was to kill 87 ) , and it called attention to the dangers of herding young people into windowless underground rooms without smoke alarms , sprinklers , fire-resistant walls , or limits on occupancy
Happy Land fire
Happy Land fire
Port Chester, New York