Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and Happyland. The Old Man often referred to the Coconut Grove Fire and when he was doing school inspections, as a side job, the Our Lady of the Angels School fire. Some teachers would get upset if they were told they couldn't store something in the wrong spot (like hallway or stairwell) or hang their own curtain on classroom windows. When they would protest and ask him why he would ask them if you knew what happened in Chicago on 12/1/58. Of course they didn't know and he would explain that 92 students and 3 teachers died in a school fire and it was his job to make sure that didn't happen again. He also would like to point out that when a fire/building inspector does a good job no one knows it...because nothing bad happens.