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Retired band guy posted:

Just don’t haul fireworks through downtown Spencer! Bwahaha 😂

For those of you who don't get this joke, Spencer had "the great Spencer fire" in June of 1931.  It was a hot 97 degree day with 25 to 35 MPH winds when two buys lit and dropped a fireworks sparkler in Bjornstad's drug store at the corner of fourth and Main streets in downtown Spencer.  The store caught on fire and spread to destroy several blocks of the business district of the city.  Spencer banned fireworks and 6 years later so did the state of Iowa.  

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