Coming in hot with the history on this one with the Corpse Flower, The Tot Finder, a Nine-Alarm Fire, and The Wizard of Oz/Darkside of The Moon, The Beaneaters, and the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.
The Molassacre. A Molasstrophe. That's what happens when 2 million gallons of molasses explodes onto the narrow streets of the North End, in a bizarre and unbelievable story of Boston's dark wave of history.
On January 15, 1919, a 26 million pound dark wave of stickiness surged through the North End of Boston, seemingly gaining strength as it rolled toward Boston Harbor. A massive swell toppled telephone poles, twisted metal trolley tracks, crushed freight cars, flooded basements, and ripped buildings from foundations. Chest-deep molasses warmed from the above average temperatures thinned out into a coating three feet deep that would grab people like human fly paper, animals struggled to get free of it, only sinking further.
Photos from episode 67:
Celtics win 18th championship, Corpse Flower in bloom, The Tot Finder, Prudential Tower, Dark Side of the Oz, Beantown, The Beaneaters, what makes Boston Baked Beans, RiP Durgin-park, The Brown Death
Sources
Links Death by Molasses: The Boston Molassacre
Celtics hit a new record with 18th NBA Championship
Boston’s Corpse Flower
Rare Corpse Plant Set To Bloom
Treehugger.com - Corpse Bloom
Tot Finder Sticker
Boston Fire Commissioner, Leo Stapleton obituary
Fire Fighters
Boston Globe - Roxbury protests of 1967
The Crimson - Roxbury MAW protest
Dark Tide, The Great Molasses Flood
Prudential Tower Fire
WZLX midday DJ George Taylor Morris uncovered the mythical connection between "The Wizard of Oz" and Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon” record
Dark Side of the Rainbow, George Taylor Morris Reelin' In The Years https://hercshideaway.blogspot.com/2015/07/reelin-in-years-1991-vs-rock-of-70s-1992.html
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon - monster hit, 800 weeks on the billboard 200https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/pink-floyd-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-at-40-classic-track-by-track-review-1552399
Molasses and the slave trade
The First Juneteenth
The Boston Molassacre
It Happened In Boston
Bittersweet Molasses History
Boston Molasses Flood
Boston Magazine - What We Don't Know About The Molesses Flood of 1919
Boston Globe - Great Molasses Flood
Census report
100 years after the Great Boston Molasses Flood with author Stephen Puleo
Beantown
Boston Beaneaters
Boston Globe - What Makes Boston Baked Beans so special?
Food.com - Durgin Park Boston Baked Beans in a beanpot
Durgin Park
NECN - Durgin Park goes dark after 192 years