Recent content by JohnnyGage

and a nice cigar afterwards...loved these.

This was almost as common as a fire hydrant on street corners of Manhattan...you picked your paper and had exact change in your other hand to pay...

Say, isn't that Lt Q 112 kneeling (E 5)...

Route Card memories...returning back to your quarters and half way home realize you still have the route cards in the rig with you...

Tom was interviewed a few years ago for the book "They Saved New York"...excerpt from the book: Tom’s first job was delivering the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper, and he later worked for a local dry cleaner. The Korean War was being fought and Tom enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1951...

who didn't have a cache of these gems...

I'm not sure about that tactic of having a ladder truck drive through deep standing water. The ladder truck has about 20" of clearance. However the FDNY does have 6 high axel trucks available for such emergencies.

agree, invasive and relentless.

I recall riding as a teen back during the hey-day E 82 ran out of L 31's bay...the house was stacked, L 31 side had the longer bay, E 82 / E 85 were stacked in the rear side by side a real tight squeeze but doable, TCU with rearmount took the front spot...L 31, a tiller, fit comfortably in E...