A fire engine body placed on a Stearns touring car must have presented a stunning picture in 1911. Everything gleams in this picture: the bell, the helmets, the lights and grillwork, and the whitewalls on the tires.
The Central Fire Company building on Park Street is decorated with bunting; a sign in one window advertises a parade. The station was built in 1910 for horse-drawn equipment. When larger, motorized trucks were acquired, the doors had to be widened.
Fire stations; Fire engines & equipment; Fire fighters; Postcards;
Members of the Jackson Hose Company No. 3 and a band stand in front of the Central Fire Station on Park Street. The building is decorated with patriotic bunting; the firemen are in uniforms with brass buttons. The truck was the first motorized...
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Members of Nyack Fire Department's Jackson Hose Company pose with their engine, which was the first motorized fire vehicle in the village.The picture is imprinted on embossed paper and may have been a souvenir of a firemen's parade.
In 1911, Empire Hook and Ladder of Upper Nyack took its horse-drawn fire truck on parade. This all-white truck carried a 65-foot extension ladder, the tallest in the Nyack Fire Department. This apparatus was used for only five years before...
Three men pose with the Nyack Ice Company wagon, pulled by two horses. One man holds a block of ice. Typewritten note: "Nyack Ice Company around turn of century. The company was owned by John Felter until 1921 when it was purchased by Gilbert...
