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at L 38 the old-timers were talking about egg-creams...we hit the road and bought a wooden 12 case seltzer water in those spray top bottles. That worked for a night or so, making egg creams...then like the Three Stooges, you can imagine what else happened...

Good one Ray, I was watching a documentary on candy we used to eat that are pulled from the market, these in particular because they stuck to the paper and the food adm said kids were eating the paper stuck to it...big deal, it went with the glue we ate...

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...

Randolph "Randy" Mantooth, the beloved actor who famously portrayed firefighter-paramedic Johnny Gage on the hit 1970s television series Emergency!, passed away on July 9, 2026, at the age of 80. He died peacefully at a hospice care facility in Ventura, California, following a long illness. His...

HAPPY HEALTHY BIRTHDAY WISHES to SERGE BURACK! ...wishing you a King sized slice of happiness today!

Yippee Ki Yay! Happy Healthy Birthday Elwood!...As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two...Happy Birthday!