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Post by 911pix on Feb 18, 2009 16:05:27 GMT -5
Here's another one I need help with...got this from Jeff Champion: what, they couldn't afford an entire arch?  |
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Post by 911pix on Feb 18, 2009 16:16:22 GMT -5
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Post by F-Man on Feb 18, 2009 16:20:52 GMT -5
Pics are circa 1951. Drill is at St. Paul "Nozzle Neckers". Arch was only used for Buckets, it was behind a plaza on Hudson Ave. Notice in 2nd from bottom pic, the driver Walt Weaver Sr is grabbing the hand brake to stop the truck. The truck was actually an old Rochester FD truck they bought to use solely for competition so they wouldn't have to keep taking the hose off of the other chain driven truck.
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Post by redmanracer on Feb 19, 2009 8:02:59 GMT -5
911 Pix From what Dad has told me, WNY Teams originally only ran hose events and buckets in the early years. Since St. Paul was near the end of there Drill Team years they probably did not want to spend money for an arch. Actually I remember that when I started running in 1975 up until the mid eighties WNY Teams could choose to run whatever events they wanted to run at their own drill. The only thing was they had to be events from the Red Book and they had to be listed on the application. (which was usually passed out the week before the drill, so you did not have much time to practice different events) In the 70's Sea Breeze had a great climber so we used to put in running ladder every year at our drill just so we could could get the points. We ran 10 events which included 2 cart events at every drill well into the 90's.
Mark Champion
"Pea Pickers"
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Post by 911pix on Feb 19, 2009 12:53:00 GMT -5
Great info Mark - Thank You!
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