Talk:Fry Street Fire

Notability and a suggestion

This article needs to establish the notability of the place before it can establish notability of the its destruction. Suggestion: move/rename the article to something like Fry Street, Denton, Texas. Add more sources to flesh out why the place was important. A Google News search indicates that reliable sources can verify its importance to music. Also, please don't rely on the same paper and the same reporter. Try harder. • Gene93k (talk) 22:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Fry Street itself is covered in Denton, Texas#Historic Fry Street, which takes care of the first part of the notability concern above. The Fry Street Fire was kind of a big deal at the time (I was working at the NT Daily about two blocks away when it all went down). As Gene93k mentions above, many musicians that went to the University of North Texas would have had opportunities to play at the dives along it. The block that burned is one of two commercial blocks, and directly adjacent to the Denton, Texas#Fry Street Fair (referenced in Template:Denton).

Regarding the "same reporter" comment above, Donna Fielder handled police reports for the DRC, her name is in the byline for many breaking-news articles. I added NT Daily articles and one from the DMN to complement them. (disclaimer: I did work at the NT Daily and both the DRC and DMN are Belo papers) Thatch (talk) 20:35, 26 September 2009 (UTC)