- Collection:
- Image Collection
- Title:
- Furniture Liquidators Fire
- Publisher:
- LaGrange, Ga. : Troup County Archives
- Date of Original:
- 1994
- Subject:
- Troup County (Ga.)
Photograph collections--Georgia--Troup County
LaGrange (Ga.)--Social life and customs - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Troup County, LaGrange, 33.03929, -85.03133
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Furniture Liquidators, in the former LaGrange Banking Company building, burned May 8, 1984. The building is remembered for the large inflatable sofa attached to the roof. Flames, estimated at reaching a height of 250 feet, shot into the air illuminating the square and visible from I-85, destroyed the building, leaving ony smoldering ruins. The LaGrange Fire Department dumped an estimated 4,200 gallons of water per minute, using an estimated 1.5 million gallons total to control it. Investigators were never able to pinpoint the cause of the fire.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/imagecoll/id/18879
- Additional Rights Information:
- This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. This image may be used in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to its use. No permission is required from the rights-holder (s) for educational use. For other use, permission must be granted by the Troup County Archives.
- Holding Institution:
- Troup County Archives
- Rights:
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