> -----Original Message-----
> From: Virginia Knauss [mailto:vknauss@csudh.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:28 AM
> To: Truck50@choice1.com
> Subject: history?

4/25/07
hi - i was looking through old photos & have some of my mom in the mid 1920's with some firemen at a fire station (she told me she lived across the street & it was Station 50 in Los Angeles).
do you know if Station 50 has always been where it is now?
thank you for your time,
virginia knauss

4/25/07
> Hello Virginia,
> Engine Company 50 went into service in 1924 at 1527 Winfield Place.  The street name was changed to 11th Place in 1940 and it is located just south  of Olympic Blvd and west of the Staples Center.  The building was built in 1900 for Hose Company No. 2, a horse drawn company.  In 1950 the Company moved to a new fire station located at 3036 Fletcher Dr, just east of San Fernando Rd. and this is where the Company is today.  I would to see the photos of you mother at the fire station.  Is there any way you can scan them and send them to me?  Let me know.
Captain Larry Schneider
Fire Station 50
Los Angeles Fire Department

4/26/07
hi larry - thanks very much for the great information and the speedy reply.
i will scan the photos this weekend & send them to you on Monday next - i don't see any station house ID in the photos and i am depending on what mom told me about 10 years ago about the station house number - i hope it is correct.  and thank you for the info about the street renaming.  i'll look on a map to see if that looks logical for her to have lived.  she went to Sentous Jr. High, which is no longer.
Virginia

4/26/07
hi larry - got the photos out last night & my husband scanned them - there were more than i thought. 
I am sending the best one of the engine now - and will send the rest, along with notes on each one, tomorrow or Monday.
You can also see the street address over the doorway in this photo (well, if you already know its 1527).
This is so cool - thanks for your help & interest.
Virginia

5/1/2007
I expect most of these won't be of any use to you but you are welcome to use any that you want.  Please let me know if you do.
I will send them in groups...they were taken at different times so there will be 4 groups, each a different time but not dated except that it was 1924.
These are photos of Margaret (Peggy) Callaghan, my Mom, who lived across from Engine Company 50 in 1924.

This email contains:
Photo 12 - Mom with 4 firemen in front of the station (2 of these- they are very small originals)
Photo 10 - group of 5 firemen
Photo 9 - one fireman plus a photo of Mom & 2 firemen by the fence
Virginia Knauss

5/1/2007
This is 2 small photos of a dog in front of the firehouse & a dog & fireman also 1924

Photo 1 - My Grandmother Edith with her husband & a friend in front of the apartment where they lived - you can see the firestation in the back above the car.
Photo 2 - engine w/young boy at the wheel & 4 firemen on the truck (don't know who this boy is - could be Reed MacDonald, whose parents owned the apartment house across the street where my Mom & Grandma lived)
Photo 3 Mom with 4 firemen on the truck.
Photo 4 - this one might be the most interesting to you unfortunately, it was cropped - there were names written on the back - what is left is:
"ers"
"amberlain"
"tts"
"urray"
"sey"
i assume these were the last names of the firemen in the photo

Photo 5 - Mom alone on the fire truck
Photo 6, group of 4 firemen with Mom in front of the station
Photo 7, group of 5 firemen in front of the station

i thank you very much for giving me the info on the station & where it was in 1924.
sincerely,
virginia knauss

5/4/2007
hi Capt Schneider,
Yes, it certainly is possible that at least some of the photos were taken in 1925 - don't know how long they lived across the street, but it was several years.
I consider myself extremely lucky that you are the Station 50 guy!  if not for that happy circumstance, i probably wouldn't have been able to find the address of the station in 1924 - and there wouldn't have been anyone to be interested in the photos.
I sure wish mom hadn't chopped off the writing on the back of that one photo of the 5 firemen.  would have been interesting to have their names.  I guess that's silly.
Thanks for everything (including the job you do - my cousin's husband was LAFD for many years - Earl Tyler, and a friend, Dolf Brunetti but I don't know where they were stationed).
sincerely,
virginia knauss

> Hello Virginia,
> The photos are spectacular.  I can't thank you enough.  Your mother must  have been very special to the firemen. The photos have special meaning to me because I work at Fire Station 50, the replacement station for the one seen in your mother's photos.  It is located at 3036 Fletcher Dr. and was opened in 1958.  I will add these to my historical web site in the near future.  By the way, I think these photos were taken in 1925.  On one of them part of the license plate of the fire engine is visible and in those years the date was on the plate.  It appears to be 1925.  Does that sound possible? Anyway, again, thank you very much.
> Captain Larry Schneider