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Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Old City Hall and Fire Station
I'm pretty sure this building is the old City Hall and Fire Station that was on the corner of McKinney and Main, across from the post office. Am I right or wrong?
5 comments:
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I don't think so, unless it was greatly before my time. I just don't recognize the structure. The city hall had the police station but not the fire station. It just don't look familiar......oh well!
Unless I am older than everyone else, I thought everyone would recognize the old city hall. The National Guard was in that building. Probably the draft board too. Behind it was the fire station. The police was at the back of the building across the road. I remember Joe and I talking to Boss there one day. They didn't have much room. Peggy
You know what? I remember that building - it was the fire station that faced the post office. They had the pole where the firemen could slide down and they slept upstairs. The side that faced Main Street was the draft board office. My mother worked there on the side entrance when they were doing the 1950 census. I'm pretty sure the police station was there too, because the jail was the only thing at the City Call. Then they moved the Police Station to the City Hall when it was decided there would be a newer firestation. (Proabably the thing was condemed like everything else.) There was a huge Gardenia bush outside the fire station. That was where the Mascot of the firemen was buried. It was a little monkey. Some of the men in town used to go to the fire station and play dominoes. The room was huge or to me it was cause I was "little" then. The Highway Patrol was there also. Since it only consisted of my Daddy and Ross Kemp and later on Dick Neese, they worked out of the Police station side and the radios were on the same frequency. That building was big enough for all of them, back then. Peggy said the National Guard was there and I believe she was right. Genie Schuh Gunn
I'm pretty sure this building is the old City Hall and Fire Station that was on the corner of McKinney and Main, across from the post office. Am I right or wrong?
5 comments:
I don't think so, unless it was greatly before my time. I just don't recognize the structure. The city hall had the police station but not the fire station. It just don't look familiar......oh well!
Unless I am older than everyone else, I thought everyone would recognize the old city hall.
The National Guard was in that building. Probably the draft board too. Behind it was the fire station. The police was at the back of the building across the road. I remember Joe and I talking to Boss there one day. They didn't have much room.
Peggy
Thanks, Peggy. I thought so, but I wanted to check my memory.
You know what? I remember that building - it was the fire station that faced the post office. They had the pole where the firemen could slide down and they slept upstairs. The side that faced Main Street was the draft board office. My mother worked there on the side entrance when they were doing the 1950 census. I'm pretty sure the police station was there too, because the jail was the only thing at the City Call. Then they moved the Police Station to the City Hall when it was decided there would be a newer firestation. (Proabably the thing was condemed like everything else.) There was a huge Gardenia bush outside the fire station. That was where the Mascot of the firemen was buried. It was a little monkey. Some of the men in town used to go to the fire station and play dominoes. The room was huge or to me it was cause I was "little" then. The Highway Patrol was there also. Since it only consisted of my Daddy and Ross Kemp and later on Dick Neese, they worked out of the Police station side and the radios were on the same frequency. That building was big enough for all of them, back then. Peggy said the National Guard was there and I believe she was right. Genie Schuh Gunn
I remember seeing a gravestone for the monkey, or I think I do.
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