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There's a PG version at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwood_%26_Company_shipping_department_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwood_%26_Company_shipping_
by unhammer 4y ago
There's a PG version at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwood_%26_Company_shipping_department_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwood_%26_Company_shipping_... – ‘Waverley Avenue [was] coated in butter and chocolate. […] an ocean of fudge ... flooding the street ... like lava, sufficiently deep to float a rowboat for two blocks along Flushing Avenue. The flood attracted "a thousand and one" local children, keen to taste the mixture. The police initially made no attempt to stop them but around an hour after their arrival truant officers began collecting the children to take them to their schools.’
- boomboomsubban 4y agoI don't understand how that could happen in Brooklyn in 1919 without being photographed.
- flanbiscuit 4y agoCurious where this was > bounded by Flushing Avenue on the north, Park Avenue on the south, Waverley Avenue on the west and Washington Avenue on the east Found it. It's by the Brooklyn Navy Yards: https://goo.gl/maps/uat3hq47dvV9tQaTA https://goo.gl/maps/uat3hq47dvV9tQaTA in fact, the building still exists, from wikipedia "Front of main plant, 1918": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Industries_of_War_-_Cocoa_-_MANUFACTURE_OF_CHOCOLATE_AND_COCOA._View_of_Plant._Rockwood_and_Company%2C_Brooklyn%2C_New_York_-_NARA_-_31487995_%28cropped%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Industri... it's on the Washington and Park corner: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6960688,-73.9674585,3a,75y,324.42h,101.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAYzDIM9OanTIAj0wg997rQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6960688,-73.9674585,3a,75y,3...