Past teams no longer running

[tumbler]

Just curious to find out how many times ran in the past that are no longer running, and what year they stopped.

Any other stories would be good to add.

[west]

Look at the list compiled by Dan Cornell under archives on the drill association site; shows all the teams that ran (or most of them), just does not have the year they stopped when applicable.

[fdbuster]

Here, just go down the list.
www.fdarchive.com/areas/nys_team_names.htm

[tumbler]

It has a lot of when teams started, but doesn't go much past that. Figured there might have been some stories of teams merging and stuff like that.

[14calumet]

What happened to the teams from the Syracuse area and wasn't there a central association ?

[fdbuster]

Central Square, Elsmere, and Boght are listed. They were originally from the Central Assoc. I believe there are others, Rick Webster from Elsmere can probably rattle off a few more.

Here is a link to some Central New York tournament info
www.townofcharlton.org/HCC_glimpse.html#pg30

[rick]

The Syracuse area teams were part of an association that was separate from the Central New York Association of the capital district area teams. The teams from the capital distict were primarily made up from Albany,Schenectady and Saratoga counties. This association folded up after the 1982 season.

[911pix]

Funny, I was just logging on to start a very similar thread - !

Mine, however, was in the form of a specific question:

- Does anyone know when the Westchester County Firemen's Association stopped running motorized events? I presume the Association still exists, and they may or may not still hold OF tournaments on their own, etc.

I have documentation showing they ran a motorized tournament in 1935, but I've not found anything much after that...anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike

[911pix]

Oh and Rick, I forgot to ask you:

This association folded up after the 1982 season

...any idea why it folded? Not enough interest, or because it joined another Area, or - ?

Thanks,

Mike

[rick]

Mike - It folded due to lack of interest. During it's heyday of the 60's and 70's it normally had about a dozen teams at most tournaments.

[blade17]

THERE WAS A DRILL WAS IN PORT CHESTER IN 1963. SCORE CARD IS ON FDRACING

[911pix]

Yeah, that's kind of interesting: drill was hosted by Westchester VFA, but there were no Westchester teams competing - ?

(When did Westchester teams last run motorized?)

[tumbler]

When did a majority of the teams stop running? Just from talking w/ older Tumblers is seems like we stopped motorized around 1975-6 when new regulations came into effect that required extended guardrails and increased insurance which the department did not want to comply with. Is this similar for other teams?

My guess would show why old fashion was pretty strong until the mid-90's cause the guys that used to run motorized, that no longer could, ran old-fashion until they "grew out of it". Just thinking out loud, probably not right though.

[14calumet]

Any updates on Delmar or Norwood some pics would be great...