When Universal Studios Hollywood reopens April 16, emerging from a year lost to COVID-19, it won't have been the studio and theme park's first brush with disaster.
The place has endured nine fires since 1932, the worst in 2008 — a three-alarm blaze that destroyed sets like the New York Street and the King Kong attraction as well as "the video vault," which contained more than 100,000 priceless master tapes from artists like Chuck Berry and Nirvana.
After a brief closure, the park reopened, and attendance has crept up steadily — from 4.3 million in 2009 to 9.1 million in 2018.
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