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The quarters of L19 were once located on Forest Avenue but were torn down to build this NYCHA complex. L19 was first organized in Hgh Bridge, the predecessor to E68. It then relocated to Forest Avenue, then to Bruckner Boulevard with E96, and eventually back to Morrisania with E50.

Another great catch! The cycle of life... God bless 'em both.

This was one of the last Mack C models from the early '60s. Their double headlights are distinctive. E45 had one of these. If the photo is from the Bronx it's likely the truck is either L31 or L38. Any idea what borough?

Must have been. Great catch!

No, it was an Ahren's Fox (see my post further up in this thread). But it was purchased for service at the 1938 39 world's Fair.

$$ was what I was told also. The city was too cheap to continue with metal aerials and had a fast buy for the Chicago rejects. There were also stories that the metal ladders heated up making them dangerous for the firefighters and that one metal aerial in Brooklyn had been used to prop up a wall...

This 1951 Ward La France 750 GPM pumper replaced the 1947 Mack for one distinct reason... It had a booster tank for use for brush fires in Van Cortland Park.

This 1947 750 MPG Mack L model replaced the 1920s American La France right after the war. About 20 of them were purchased in one lot and scattered about the city. The showpiece was assigned to E23 in midtown Manhattan. This was my favorite piece of apparatus as a kid until the Mack C. models...

Looks like a late 1920s 700 GPM American La France pumper with a 1930s Walters aerial ladder. Replacement of the pumper was scheduled for circa 1940 but was delayed by world war II. The Walter's tractor was also delayed by the war, probably replaced by a 1948 Ward La France hitched to the...

My uncle was the chauffeur of Ladder 37 when they received one of the 1955 FWD woodens brand new. Even before they had a hydraulic lift on the aerial. He told me when I was a kid that these were Chicago FD rejects. I never doubted ol' Uncle Charles. Maybe it was because they had open cabs that...

This is not Norwood. Villa Avenue is the Bedford Park neighborhood. Norwood is across Mosholu Parkway. And when I was a kid nobody even referred to that area as Norwood. It just didn't exist. Norwood did appear in real estate ads in the late 1800s but the name disappeared. Williamsbridge, as...

Ahrens Fox pumper, designed for use at the 1938 World's Fair, subsequently being used as a hose wagon in Riverdale. I believe there were just three of them and were rated at just 500gpm. They never really saw frontline service in the FDNY and we're gone from the inventory by the early '50s.

When I was a kid in the '50s in the Bronx they were referred to as "The 52 twins".

Great photo! Engine 48 with a 1938 AF was second due in my Bronx neighborhood. It was a behemoth.

Would you know if Lt Geis had relatives from previous generations who were OTJ ?

That is a 1956 American La France ariel.

It is a Ward la France tractor and nobody said that the aerial was wooden. It is obviously metal. By the early 1970s all the wooden aerials were out of frontline service on the job. These workhorse Ward LaFrance tractors, by then over 20 years old, were still pulling the last vestiges of the...

That is a Ward la France tractor. These models (40 of them I believe) were world War II surplus vehicles that the FDNY purchased on the cheap after the war (1947, '48) to link up with very old aerials dating back to the 1920s and '30s.They were off frontline duty by the late 1960s with some of...

75s tenth of a mile move south made all the difference.in these assignments. Would 81 go up Kingsbridge road to Jerome or Reservoir Avenue to get to these boxes? Mileage appears to be the same but a lot less turns going up Kingsbridge.

75 out of quarters, 2 turns they are on the Concourse. Looks like 81 has six or seven turns coming around the reservoir.