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The Los Gatos July 5, 1943 Fire
Biggest blaze in town after the 1901 fire took place seven decades ago after the Independence Day celebrations.
The Fourth of July, 1943, was quiet in Los Gatos, during war time.
But the next morning brought the biggest conflagration the town had seen since the Great Fire of 1901.
Two buildings were leveled, including the original Palmer Perkins Stoves and Tinware building, which had escaped the 1891 fire, but burned to the ground in 1943.
Source: Hooked on Los Gatos, the Library and Museum History Project
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