Recent content by entropychaser

Heaven knows why, but Chicago purchased a 135' Morita aerial on a Hendrickson chassis in 1975 (Shop# E-197). It was quartered at Truck Company One on S. Wells St. in the Loop. They got rid of it in 1987 due to unsafe riding positions. Shortly after they got the rig the Captain of Truck One...

Is it too late to get on the bus (and I'll even pay the fare)? Asking for a friend.

Did the bus driver lock the doors and get a head count first?

Before WWII, the London Fire Brigade had living quarters for families and a bar- obviously modeled on Royal Navy traditions. In WWII the Eighth Air Force (and likely others) had "medicinal" alcohol rations for bomber crews after a mission. My father didn't drink so he gave his issue to his...

That elk hunting camp is getting crowded. Hope they don't run out of whiskey........

Up and around the corner on W. 151st St, on the right, almost to Amsterdam Av.....Fitzpatrick and Frisby LODD...46 years ago.

Sure...that's one way to tilt the playing field in someone's favor; or against another. You think Scott's electrical and systems engineers are incapable of producing a DC electrical circuit with a different power source?

Lol! As I described, the specs can be written in such a way so as to get one or more vendors off the playing field: and the earlier in the process, the better. In the event this is being done, it looks like it is working to perfection.

Perhaps the correct thought is: will FDNY regret not getting Scott equipment? How do we know if the specs on the scba request for proposal weren't written in a way to freeze Scott out? It's a classic technique to "direct" the winning bid to a desired vendor. There's a million ways to do it and...

There's a rattlesnake under every rock. https://forum.pakira.com/t/what-we-know-about-the-12-burn-victims-in-the-midcoast-lumber-mill-fire/6183 https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/line-duty-death-report-firefighters-finalized-regarding-robbins-lumber-explosion/273189

Analysis of data reveals that the highest swimmer fatality rate in the Rockaways happens at the beach area opposite TA stations. All of those dopes coming out from the City must think that the Atlantic Ocean is kinda like the shallow end of the pool down at the "Y".

I could reliably get my late, Manhattan born (1928) mother-in-law on her soapbox by asking: "Lorraine, how's your Mayor doin'?" The reply would start with a deep breath.

28 to 63....Greyhound Bus has shorter routes than these.

Born in Long Island City ,today is Tony Bennett's 100th Birthday. For not wanting to record contemporary pop music, Columbia Records let him go in 1972. Tony got the last word.