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The Happy Land Social Club, 1959 Southern Boulevard, The Bronx, New York, June 1993

 

 



The Happy Land Social Club was a popular, unlicensed Honduran social club. On March 25, 1990,
Julio Gonzalez was thrown out of the club for quarreling with Lydia Feliciano, his former girlfriend
and a Happy Land employee. He bought a dollar's worth of gasoline, poured a trail of gas from the
street through the club's single doorway, ignited it, and left. The fire killed eighty-seven people. Lydia
Feliciano was one of five survivors.