[quote name='StLFF34' post='136446' date='Aug 3 2007, 13:47 ']firebuff,
First of all let me say thank you so very much for this thread, and what a tremendous job you've done.
As a FF for St. Louis, and a buff, this is truly a treat that words can not express.
How strange that a huge protion of those companies and even many of the firehouses are no longer in existance. I am attempting to compile a list of abandoned firehouse locations, what companies were assigned there, and if they are still standing. I have found a few, but I have recently lost my old rosters.
It is also pretty cool to see some of the firehouses that I have either been assigned or "subbed", and what they looked like long ago and what was housed there.
IE..An interior shot of the 34's shows a straight staircase on the north wall of the apparatus floor which is no longer there. Hard to tell how far back that is, but I know there is a pole on that side of the house.
And of course my 1st assginment...Eng 7! Pretty cool to see what companies used to be there. But it was a noisy place at one time!
I'm trying to go thru some of my info, and locate what houses some of the interior shots were taken.
Thank you...very much once again!
StLFF34
One in particular though, I'm having a hard time to locate this firehouse.....Any local guys figure this one out??[/quote]
This was "Station 40-41" at 921 Delmar Boulevard, home to Engine 40, Engine 41, H&L 13, and Hose 1, when I first visited St. Louis in 1965. St. Louis had a few fire stations at the time that were identified with hyphenated double numbering. St.Louis "Station 5-25" at 2123 N Market was similarly identified.
First of all let me say thank you so very much for this thread, and what a tremendous job you've done.
As a FF for St. Louis, and a buff, this is truly a treat that words can not express.
How strange that a huge protion of those companies and even many of the firehouses are no longer in existance. I am attempting to compile a list of abandoned firehouse locations, what companies were assigned there, and if they are still standing. I have found a few, but I have recently lost my old rosters.
It is also pretty cool to see some of the firehouses that I have either been assigned or "subbed", and what they looked like long ago and what was housed there.
IE..An interior shot of the 34's shows a straight staircase on the north wall of the apparatus floor which is no longer there. Hard to tell how far back that is, but I know there is a pole on that side of the house.
And of course my 1st assginment...Eng 7! Pretty cool to see what companies used to be there. But it was a noisy place at one time!
I'm trying to go thru some of my info, and locate what houses some of the interior shots were taken.
Thank you...very much once again!
StLFF34
One in particular though, I'm having a hard time to locate this firehouse.....Any local guys figure this one out??[/quote]
This was "Station 40-41" at 921 Delmar Boulevard, home to Engine 40, Engine 41, H&L 13, and Hose 1, when I first visited St. Louis in 1965. St. Louis had a few fire stations at the time that were identified with hyphenated double numbering. St.Louis "Station 5-25" at 2123 N Market was similarly identified.
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