Station Locations Question

[Atlas]

So pre-internet how did you obtain a list of fire house/station locations?

 

[Signal73]

Granted this wasn't the exact question but..

As one of the younger guys who had internet when first visiting stations.

I discovered FDNYTRUCKS.Com and got the addresses off there.

I didn't have a GPS so I would print out map quest directions to get around.

When I first started my dad would take me back then I didn't know as much as I know now.

 

[Atlas]

Granted this wasn't the exact question but..

As one of the younger guys who had internet when first visiting stations.

I discovered FDNYTRUCKS.Com and got the addresses off there.

I didn't have a GPS so I would print out map quest directions to get around.

When I first started my dad would take me back then I didn't know as much as I know now.

So how did you find out the fire stations locations pre-computer?

 

[Signal73]

I didn't I was 6 when we got our first computer.

That's why I said "Granted this wasn't the exact question but.."

But maybe an address book

 

[1261Truckie]

So pre-internet how did you obtain a list of fire house/station locations?

Word of mouth from the guys in 280/132

 

[entropychaser]

I use the definitive "American Fire Services 1983"- 600 pages, 80 maps. Over the decades I have used my copy so many times that the cover is long ago worn off.

Since the author is a frequent contributor on this site, maybe you can convince him that it is time for an updated edition.

 

[memorymaster]

Old WNYF magazines that had a unit chart within them.

 

[68jk09]

From WNYF & also from a small red shirt pocket type book with address's for a particular Boro ....each also had a foldout street map for the Boro.

 

[Atlas]

From WNYF & also from a small red shirt pocket type book with address's for a particular Boro ....each also had a foldout street map for the Boro.

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From WNYF & also from a small red shirt pocket type book with address's for a particular Boro ....each also had a foldout street map for the Boro.

Are we talking about the old RED BOOK from the 50's? It also provided the traveling times of the trains between stations?

 

[gym]

The 1952 edition of The Complete Street Guides for Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan & Bronx published by Geographia Map Co. included addresses of all the fire houses in each borough.

 

[entropychaser]

If you're in London, you can use Geographers' A-Z London Street Atlas You will find:

- The LFB Paddington Station in the old 'A' Division. On the Harrow Road between Westbourne Terrace and Warwick Crescent .The subject of the wonderful book "The Red Watch"

-The old Westminster quarters on Greycoat Place between Strutton Ground and Artillery Lane. Was first due at Buckingham Palace- across Victoria Street, up Buckingham Gate, then cross Birdcage Walk and you're there. Hope they aren't changing the guard.

-The Brixton Station in South London. On Brixton Road between Atlantic Road and Electric Avenue. The 15th Division with an almost Cockney accent.

 

[memorymaster]

From WNYF & also from a small red shirt pocket type book with address's for a particular Boro ....each also had a foldout street map for the Boro.

I had completely forgot about those books. Thank Chief for the memory jog.