Raymonda Mitchell News Today

BROCKTON — The Strand Theatre, situated in Brocktons bustling downtown business district, was showing the film “Hoosier School Boy,” starring Mickey Rooney, followed by “Secret Evidence,” on Sunday, March 9, 1941.  It was a busy and normal evening for the theater at Main and School streets, which sat 1,685 people. Hours after the last showing, early into Monday morning, the night custodian, Christopher Moore, discovered a fire in the basement below the candy counter and instruct...