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438 North Mesa Street, San Pedro
438 North Mesa Street (new building)
Closed (Engine 53 moved to FS112)
September 20, 1924
1951
?

Engine Company No. 53
438 North Mesa Street
San Pedro


1924 to 1951



Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
 

Engine Company No. 53
438 North Mesa Street
San Pedro

1924

Tillie Royers ?
Hjalmar Johnson ?
Lt. Geo Lewis
J Schilling
Robertson ?
Engineer Harry Woolway ?

(? spelling unreadable on photo)

 

  Date Opened September 20, 1924
  Land Cost $  8,500.
  Building Cost $ 13,000.
  Sq.Ft.

2,823

  Telephone Number

S-453


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
 

Engine Company No. 53
438 North Mesa Street
San Pedro

June 14, 1938
"B" Platoon

Fireman Otto Keeter
Fireman Ralph Johns
Engineer A. Watson
Captain Lax Rascoe
Fireman Leonard Rapp

Engine Company No. 53
438 North Mesa Street
San Pedro

March 9, 1941
"A" Platoon

Captain H. G. Stewart
H. M. Inlow
C. E. Connelly
T. C. Rudbach

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

 
 

Source: FIRE ENGINEERING
August 1941



San Pedro, Calif.,
Has Large Warehouse Fire

A blaze recently destroyed 800 feet of wharves on the waterfront at San Pedro. Including the structures ruined was the $100,000 Los Angeles Harbor Department wharf. Ten pieces of motor apparatus and three fireboats, aided by Coast Guard cutters and patrol boats, operated on the fire.


Engine Company No. 53
438 North Mesa Street
REMOLDED
San Pedro


1951 to



Source: Chuck Madderom Collection

Engine Company No. 53
438 North Mesa Street
San Pedro

Remolded in 1951

1979

 
  Date Opened 1951
  Land Cost same site
  Building Cost: 
      Original building cost
      Architect cost (remodel)
      Contractor cost
      Change orders
      Public Building cost
                            Total

$ 13,000.00
    4, 897.79
   71,618.00
     2,838.25
     4,532.62
$ 96,886.66
  Architect Walker & Kalionzes
  Contractor Hermco Const. Co.
  Sq.Ft. Floor Area Old 53's                 2,823
Remodel  9/1/51   2,092
                               4,915
  Sq.Ft.  Site 90x100                                9,000
  Planting area (+ park)                                2,200
  Fertilizer needed

15 sacks

  Gasoline storage

550 gallons

  Telephone Number

TErminal 2-9287

 


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