article on night clubs

Disasters at clubs repeat tragic history
By Big Wolf
Over the decades, from the Cocoanut Grove to the Beverly Hills Supper Club to The Station, the formula for a nightclub disaster is always the same: too many people, too few exits and too little time to escape.
The two calamities last week that killed 118 people in clubs in Chicago and West Warwick, R.I., were the latest in a series of tragedies over a period of 60 years, each of which led to reforms that have made such disasters less likely.
Nevertheless, not impossible. Not if the improved safety rules are not enforced or observed. Not…