Images from 1980 Value Fair Fire





OUT OF CONTROL – Firemen battle Wednesday evening’s blaze on Nassau Street. The fire raged for more than three hours, gutting Value Fair and causing considerable damage to the adjacent Hudibras. (David Siegel photograph)

Princetonian



ONE FIREFIGHTER tries to stave off the effects of below freezing temperatures and freezing water with a cup of hot coffee during Wednesday night’s fire.

Princeton Packet
16 January 1980


A FIREMEN moves a hose while smoke continues to pour out of the Hudibras restaurant behind him.

Princeton Packet


A PRINCETON FIREMAN remains poised by a hose joint as he waits for another hookup.

Princeton Packet
16 January 1980


GENERAL ALARM

Princeton firemen pour water on flames in row of Nassau Street stores swept by spectacular general alarm blaze last evening.

Trenton Times
10 January 1980

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