Women of Achievement
Winecoff Fire reader Mary Marsh has documented new details about the lives of some of the high achieving women who perished in the Winecoff fire. In a trilogy of articles, Marsh delves into their...
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Legend of Devotion Revealed
Cliff Burtz Carried a Secret BurdenNow it can be told. Cliff Burtz died in 2011. He was eighty-eight. He never married though he was considered a good catch. He had lovers. Kind and thoughtful women...
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Firefighter Jim Smith Passes
Jim SmithWinecoff Hotel firefighter James Smith passed away today. Smith was born in Atlanta in 1920. In the early hours of December 7, 1946 he was on duty at Atlanta's fire station number twelve, on...
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Pioneer Hotel Fire Re-Examined
Photo: gendisasters.com60 Minutes, the popular CBS Television News magazine, has re-examined the 1970 Pioneer Hotel fire. The facts and circumstances of the Tuscon, Arizona tragedy are eerily similar...
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Rare Postcard Acquired
Click To EnlargeThis vintage Winecoff Hotel postcard, showingĀ early Ford automobiles, was not used for long. Note the hotel's name is misspelled.
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'Til Death Do Us Part
This newly acquired photo shows newlyweds Charles and Mildred Boschung. According to family members, it was takenĀ in the Winecoff Hotel on Friday evening December 6, 1946. Only a few hours later the...
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A Winecoff Poem
Chet WallaceResearch assistant Chet Wallace has penned a poem. It was inspired by his study of the Winecoff fire. Wallace writes from the perspective of a fictional man whose girlfriend is lost in the...
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Innovative Solutions
Winecoff Fire co-author Sam Heys has done it again. On the heels of Big Bets, his comprehensive history of The Southern Company, comes a more focused study of the firm's commitment to research and...
View ArticleSixty-Seventh Anniversary Coverage
Atlanta public radio station WABE-FM has broadcast a story noting the sixty-seventh anniversary of the Winecoff Hotel fire. In a six minute radio piece Steve Goss interviews well known Atlanta...
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Fire's Anniversary Ahead
Winecoff Fire research assistant, Chet Wallace, will be lunching at the Ellis Hotel Saturday December 7, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. to mark the fire's sixty-seventh anniversary. He will be available for...
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Maude Whiteman's Courage Recalled
Ā Maude WhitemanMaude Whiteman, 61, survived the Winecoff Hotel fire and saved the lives ofĀ eight others. Whiteman operated the Winecoff Hotel's cigar shop by day but had agreed to stay in the hotel...
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Rick Roberts
The Atlanta Fire Rescue Department has announced the passing of retired Battalion Chief Thomas H. "Rick" Roberts. In 1946, then Private Roberts was summoned to the Winecoff Hotel fire on the first...
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New Survivor Photo Acquired
Anna & Edward W. SherwoodWinecoff fire survivor Ed Sherwood, 54, of River Forest, Illinois told his story to the Chicago Tribune for Sunday's December 8, 1946 edition."I went to my bedroom (room...
View ArticlePonce Press Article
The April 2014 issue of The Ponce Press features an article remembering the Winecoff Hotel fire. The Ponce Press is a monthly publication serving the well established in-town neighborhoods on Atlanta's...
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Striking Winecoff-Based Painting Sells Quickly
Emelda by June JohnstonEmelda ReevesHer phone rang about 6:00 p.m. December 6, 1946. June Frazier, 19, answered. On the line was her dear friend, Emelda Reeves, 21, with news that a party was brewing...
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Information On Navy Pilots Sought
Winecoff.org is seeking to locate family or friends of two Navy pilots from the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, whose names appear on the December 7, 1946 Winecoff Hotel guest list above. Lt....
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Separated by Fire
HaroldĀ and Robert IrvinTwo brothers, both recently discharged Navy pilots, came to the Winecoff Hotel but only one left alive. Harold Irvin, 23, perished in the 1946 fire but his older brother Robert,...
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Dickerson Family Photos Newly Acquired
Will, Bill, Mary and Mary Melinda DickersonA bright future awaited Will and Mary Dickerson in post-war Georgia. Will, a Washington & Lee University graduate and a World War II veteran, worked as a...
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Funeral Photo Mystery Solved
This photo appeared in the Salvation Army's regional magazine, The War Cry, December 28, 1946. The name of the Winecoff fire victim being laid to rest was not mentioned in the magazine, only that the...
View ArticleA Worthy Legacy
The Rome News-Tribune has published an article remembering the four teenaged boys from Rome, Georgia who perished in the Winecoff fire and traces the fire safety improvements the fire inspired. The...
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