Always open, always closed.
T. VAN KANNEL, at the opening of the world’s first three-winged Wooden Revolving Door, Rector’s Restaurant, Manhattan, 1899.
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People tried to spin the door in both directions.
GILBERT GASSON, double bassist, following the nightclub fire that killed 492 people at The Cocoanut Grove, Boston, Massachusetts. The revolving door
jammed, trapping hundreds of people.
It’s anything-can-happen day.
DARRYL HOSS, captain of Boston College Football Team, commenting on their surprise defeat to rivals Holy Cross. They had made plans to celebrate their victory at The Cocoanut Grove but, following
the 55-12 defeat, cancelled the reservation.
Both from November 29, 1942, Boston Herald.