A crowd gathered outside the Knickerbocker Theater a few days after its roof collapsed. (Source: Library of Congress)
Washington, D.C. has been battered by some brutal winter storms, but none has been more lethal than the blizzard that hit the District in late January 1922. Today, that two-day storm is still remembered as the Knickerbocker Blizzard. That s in grim recognition of 98 people who lost their lives and the 133 who were injured in the catastrophic roof collapse that it caused at Crandall s Knickerbocker Theater, once the District s biggest and grandest movie house.
The Knickerbocker, located at Columbia Road and 18th Street Northwest in Adams Morgan, was one of the jewels in the crown of local movie entrepreneur Harry M. Crandall, who himself was one of Washington s most stirring Horatio Alger stories. As a 1922
2020-12-15 Penny Thomas, Intent Communications
Caption: The project has reinstated Ottawa’s Britannia Beach gradient to a depth of up to 2.4m Dredging of Ottawa’s Britannia Beach was completed in October, but before work could begin in August an extensive mussel relocation programme took place. The project has reinstated the beach gradient to a depth of up to 2.4m, which involved removal of around 9000m3 of contaminant-free sediment from a 110mx80m section of the Ottawa River. It also, however, required the tagging and relocation of 45,000 mussels. Mussel relocation was required under one of many environmental permits that City of Ottawa’s Susan Johns, manager, Design & Construction – Facilities had to navigate before dredging could commence.