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The Cocoanut Grove Fire, Part 1: Wartime Paradise
November, 1942. America is at war. Mobsters still have control and influence on city inspectors, allowing them to skate past regulations and requirements. Guys getting...
The Von Duprin Game Changer, Part 2: Flight to Safety
Every minute of every day in America there are emergencies. Multiple times a day people have to get to safety in a hurry and locked doors could mean a death sentence t...
2023 Holiday Special
Fires, exits, origins, and bloopers. Lots of bloopers.In this special holiday episode, Jeff, Tyler, and Tim discuss what brought them this far, what lessons they've le...
The Von Duprin Game Changer, Part 1: The Power of Three
On December 30th 1903, thirty-three year old Carl Prinzler was in Chicago for business. With his business concluded, Carl found himself delayed in getting home. Decidi...
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Part 3: Out Of Fashion, Into Compliance
As firefighters, police officers, and citizens who volunteered their efforts recovered bodies and lowered them to the ground below from the eighth, ninth, and tenth fl...
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Part 2: Escape or Die
William Shepherd walked down the cobblestone streets in Greenwich village on the afternoon of Saturday, March 25th, 1911. It was a trendy place that any young reporter...
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Part 1: The Cost of Fashion
Today it’s difficult for us to imagine how a simple women’s garment, the Industrial Revolution, and labor practices could all be related. Right now, women wear t-shir...
Lake View School, Collinwood Ohio, Part 4: A Village in Mourning
The acrid smell of smoke still hung in the air. It was late in to the night of March 4th but survivors of the Lake View School fire were being questioned. Fritz Hirter...
Lake View School, Collinwood Ohio, Part 3: A Village on Fire
As people from the village of Collinwood started to rush to the school in a desperate attempt to save the children, a bottleneck that was formed by an architectural de...
Lake View School, Collinwood Ohio, Part 2: School on Fire
Thirteen-year-old Emma Neibert left her home a little after eight A.M. to go to school, like she did most any other day. The chilly morning air and light snow on the g...
Lake View School, Collinwood Ohio, Part 1: Growing Village
In 1908, the village of Collinwood Ohio was experiencing an enormous growth of population and industry. As railroad tycoons acquired and built on land that was once fa...
The Iroquois Theatre Fire, Part 3: The Aftermath
M.S. Schalk; will die. William Patten; will die. Susan Beahl, aged 16; will die. Richard Emelang, stage hand; will die.In the days after the fire, Chicago newspapers w...
The Iroquois Theatre Fire, Part 2: The Fire
On a castle terrace, in front of a backdrop painted with gardens, Fatima, believing her love Selim was dead, agrees to marry Blue Beard. He gives her the key to the ca...
The Iroquois Theatre Fire, Part 1: The Theatre
In 1903, the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was set to host a matinée performance of the musical “Mister Blue Beard”. The children’s play, staring Dan Macavoy a...
S1 E30 - Lockpicking
Hello everyone, I'm Jeff Moss and along with Tim Coleman and Tyler J. Thomas, we are going to discuss lockpicking.Listen to The Three Tumblers anywhere you get your po...
S1 E29 - Pin Kits
Hello everyone I'm Tim Coleman and along with Tyler J. Thomas and Jeff Moss, we'll be the best pin ups in the trade and in podcast. It's three o'clock somewhere and th...
S1E28 - Standalone Keypad Locks
Let's talk about standalone keypad locks! Listen to The Three Tumblers anywhere you get your podcasts and, please, follow and give us a review! The Three Tumblers Podc...