Joe Barber was a very busy guy on the Thursday that Great White played The Station.
Station manager Kevin Beese, Barber's softball and dart team friend for years, had asked Joe to help run errands...
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Joe Barber was a very busy guy on the Thursday that Great White played The Station.
Station manager Kevin Beese, Barber's softball and dart team friend for years, had asked Joe to help run errands...
It appears there was another video taken at The Station on the night of the fire which is still in existence--but which few people have ever seen. Here's the story:
The band, Trip, got an...
RodentLady - Those were great finds. Thank you. So good to have it finally confirmed by Feeney himself that he was indeed the guy leaning on the bus.
That was a sweet video with Gina. I was at...
Sparklymantra - Welcome, and thanks for your memories of Kevin Washburn.
Shellie - Some folks may not have seen this video yet, so thanks for posting it. Brilliant!
I sure hope our ID-loving...
Hey Pkstracy. Hey Noelle. What's up, RodentLady?
Notes from the 21st Anniversary
Encountered:
--Tracey Romanoff's father.
--Shawn Sweet's brother, Dan.
--Tawnya Kelly, survivor and Ed...
Hi All--
So, there was a lot of shoveling to be done at The Memorial if it was going to be visitable come Tuesday the 20th. I got up to West Warwick in the late afternoon on Friday the 16th and...
https://i.imgur.com/igcBdjh.jpeg
Hey Noelle--Yup. And there are a few details beyond just his toothy-looks that help back up this ID:
1.) Phil Barr was a competitive swimmer at Bates College. Notice how strong this guy looks...
How about a very likely ID of a survivor to end 2023?
I used to think that this animated club-goer in the pre-show was Scotty Dunbar. But now I'm convinced it's none other than Phil Barr, the...
Survivor Dave B. told me that the last thing he could remember--before passing out--was lying on a stretcher inside a moving ambulance while an EMT cut off the remnants of his blue, long-sleeved...
At the 20th Station Fire Anniversary last February, I had a conversation with a video technician who was working inside the satellite truck of a Providence TV station. Near the end of it he made a...
At the 19th anniversary gathering in 2022 I met a tearful Sandy Carpenter. She was wearing extra-dark sunglasses and it sounded like she was doing her utmost to keep it together.
...
Hey guys—Well, the big Halloween is finally over, so I’m looking forward to re-engaging with my favorite thread soon.
Ben Suffoletto (D) was a big Halloween celebrator and, as an architect, his...
Hey guys--I just returned from Rhode Island, where all the license plates say "The Ocean State." They could just as easily say "The Very Small State," instead, because the degrees of separation...
RodentLady - Well, I guess I just give off good vibes. And maybe empathy, too.
Because after 6 or 7 years of my hanging out in West Warwick, people have seen that my intentions are good and that...
pkstracy - Thank you, and thanks for sharing a personal link.
bustakita - Great find, your Cristina piece!
cigardaddio - Yo Jimmy D!
dionyzus - Nice hearing from you.
I got my wife to...
https://i.imgur.com/0TMNR74.jpg
As we know, the Station Fire tragedy was chock-full of various ironies. Well, I may have a new one to put on the list, and it's a doozy.
In Cranston, 717 pieces...
https://i.imgur.com/19EZBfD.jpg
An upside-down table, to the right of Biechele. This may be the same table that was such a big hindrance to people exiting the front corridor. Brian Butler used...
Hi All--
RodentLady - I accidentally deleted my response to you and your Todd King announcement. Opps...so let me try again...
I was actually in West Warwick for that whole Memorial...
https://i.imgur.com/GtwSkBI.jpg
Karla Bagtaz
https://i.imgur.com/ihhVNDT.jpg
Laura Gillett
https://i.imgur.com/hZb0ZTY.jpg
Jason Morton
Dionyzus - nice hearing from you. Good luck with the move, and thanks for the new/old video.
bustakita - loved the Station-like Brazilian TV video.
--RESCUER'S CLOTHING--
1.) West...
1.) "Good, they have soundproofing now." - West Warwick P.O. Mark Knott's first thought to himself, back in 2002, after seeing the newly-installed foam behind the stage.
2.) "Who would line...
Hiya All--
Lt. Frank - Oh, you'll get your passion back. And we still need your ID-ing talents.
Anyway, here are more people I encountered at the 20th Anniversary:
-Freddy Crisostomi's...
On 2/20/03, Paul Pelletier of Pawtucket was on his second or third date with Charline Gingras-Fick (D). In the chaos inside the Station that night, they got separated near the bar windows.
On...
JXG - thanks man.
Shylurker, pkstracy, Rodentlady, and bustakita - thanks all for posting those great links.
Lt. Frank - glad to see you're alive and kicking.
Amanda - you too!
I had a...
Sunday and Monday at the Memorial were simply incredible. Met 10 survivors for the first time. Pretty emotional.
Once I get my act back together here at home I’ll start posting again.
Hi All -
RodentLady - Nice find from Lisa Scott's daughter.
Here's something curious.
At the point where The Station is engulfed in flames and beyond hope, it appears that two friends,...
Hey, Jimmy D - I was just at the Memorial this weekend, and the flags were all looking good.
I had a talk there, by the way, with Jimmy, the owner of Astro Wreckers. He hauled away half of the...
Found a picture of Mike Vargas that I'd never seen before. It’s him emerging from hell.
https://i.imgur.com/dweNydt.jpg
Season's Greetings all--
RodentLady - Nice sleuthing on the guest list. There IS a list in the RIAG materials, buried on page 6 of the 96-page folder titled, "Lead Sheets and Witnesses.pdf".
...
Remember how Daniel Biechele wrote 100 letters of apology while in detention in Florida?
Well, a family who lost their daughter shared their hand-written letter from Biechele with me.
To the...
https://i.imgur.com/gRyEXpU.jpg
Our own Lt. Frank ID-ed Jose Roberto Demos from the Butler pre-show several years ago. He's the club-goer who turns and squints into Butler's camera at about 1:53....
Frank, that really really sucks. I’m sure your brother is appreciating your presence through all this.
Welcome Sierrarose - Could you give us the time stamps for those moments that may show Albert DiBonaventura?
TommyServo - Welcome, and thanks for sharing your talents. Have you ever read the full Butler transcript that Dion posted on Google Drive some years ago now? It's under "Contents Not From Original...
Yo MoCushle86 - Glad to have you here.
Some misc. Butler notes:
--Butler was 42 years-old at the time of the fire. He was a friend of Dale Latulipee, 46, the oldest of the deceased club-goers....
Just found out that survivor Stephanie Zannella died on 3-18-22 of complications from diabetes. She was 46 years old; 25 or 26 at the time of the fire.
https://i.imgur.com/1YfC0vo.jpg
She had...
Hi all.
So, in late July, I was lucky enough to spend a good half-hour or so with Station survivor Art Zanfagna. He's currently managing a Home Depot in the middle of Rhode Island.
...
pkstracy - thanks for reposting the find-a-grave link.
Kelly110 - thanks for climbing on board.
wineandkerosene - howdy. I'm going to add some info to what you said.
...
Hi guys. Hi Amanda and Jimmy Cigar. Hope your summers are going okay.
Whenever I visit The Station Memorial Park, I'm always trying to picture where exactly the nightclub once stood.
The...
The following is from CNN on 2/21/03; these are excerpts from the transcript beginning at 6:02 am (ET)--just 7 hours after the fire.
The speakers are:
Jason Carroll - West Warwick correspondent...
Thanks RodentLady - Good catch! (I was tired that night.). Added both.
Dale Latulippe - 46 - 6/16/56
Don Roderiques - 46 - 10/8/56
Melvin Gerfin Jr. - 46 - 2/14/57
Ben Suffoletto - 43 - 3/9/59
Linda Suffoletto - 43 - 3/27/59
William Cartwright - 42 - 10/21/60...
I agree with you guys, basically. I just felt like I should show these so folks could make of them what they will. Yes, it’s a very subjective exercise.
And, opps, the last shot, at the front was...
Hi Gang--
I've been debating with myself about even posting these, but ultimately it seems that the truth is fair game and we, here, have shared everything else, so....
Using JXG's cleaned-up...
CWC - congrats, your Memorial photos came out loud and clear.
RodentLady - Fantastic. Good work! Now I can provide us with a thorough list going from oldest to youngest. Will put that up...
RodentLady-You’re so good with dates. Going nuts trying to find the birthdate for Dennis Smith (D) of Pawtucket. He was 36. And I believe he had the middle initial “J.” Have the other 99.
CWC—Confession: I only post photos now when my techy wife is around to assist me. She does a quick cleanup on photoshop for starters; then goes to the site Imgur. All I know then is that you post...
Lt. Frank - I'm glad you're out of hibernation--and are already pinpointing survivor Sam Miller!
Miller was lucky, huh? Stage manager Paul Vanner just randomly told him to follow him, and so Vanner...
That’s Dave B. Of all the survivor stories I’ve read or had told to me, Dave’s takes the cake. He was 10 to 12 feet from the plugged up doorway and was sure he was dead at 3 different points. ...