This from Steve Redick:
February 23, 1964. A great article with some very famous names. It may be hard to read but if you enlarge each page you should be able to read all of it. Classic Chicago Fire Department …Louis Galante and my dad were very close in those years. They taught classes together and many a time I would come home from school and they would be “pulling ceiling” in our bar downstairs. That was a great time to be in and around the CFD. This was too good not to shareSteve
This from Steve Redick:
March 15, 1981 – A nice article from Chicago Tribune Magazine. This of course was the old house at 3500 W 60th st. A nice glimpse of how things were not that long ago. I love this kinda stuffEnjoy the memories
Steve
This from Steve Redick:
Going through my dad’s scrapbook I found these images from Feb 14, 1946. 4-11 alarm at 1446 Blue island Ave. In the writeup it says the captain of Squad 10 died of a heart attack at another fire that occurred that same day … barely mentioned.The next group of clippings describes a squad’s multiple inhalator responses and a dramatic elevator rescue..imagine how difficult and dangerous this was without all the modern tools of today.
Also some clippings from a 5-11 at 19th and State. Interesting how they refer to the residents displaced in the hotel fire, imagine that term used today! How about the mention of the “47 year old midget” hit by the streetcar during the fire. You can’t make this stuff up! These clippings are a window to a different time in this country, and a whole different kind of journalism.
Steve
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