Firegeezer.com has again posted a Chicago area rig in his section called ‘Looking Back.’ This time, he’s posted an ad for W.S. Darley & Company that was printed in the April issue of Fire Engineering from 1972. In the ad, there’s a traditional Darley delivery photo of a squad from Itasca.
The unit featured in the ad as photographed some years later. Larry Shapiro collection
The Itasca squad featured in the 1972 Darley ad was re-numbered to Squad 8 and had updated emergency lighting added sometime prior to this photo being taken by Larry Shapiro
#1 by Jon Schmidt on September 15, 2011 - 8:12 PM
Hi everyone, Found this post randomly searching some “Itasca” related things. I have owned the old itasca squad since spring of 2003, it belonged to the Itasca park district from about 93-03 and the IFD before that. I put an oak wood bed on the back and did some small restoration and paint. Been in the Itasca parade several times since. Check out the pics in the link above.
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