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This photo came to the Time Machine from Ken Mc Ardle, Asst. Chief (ret.) of the Jim Thorpe Fire Department, Diligent Fire Company 3. According to Jeff Welz (of North Hudson Fire and Rescue fame), this truck dates from 1974 and was stationed at the…

Black and white photograph of the Palisades Hose Company No. 2 in front of their quarters at the dead end of Jane street. According to Willie Demontreux: They are standing next to an American LaFrance fire engine, from the 1920s (models from that…

This black and photograph shows a horse drawn fire engine used by the Palisade Hose Company. Time Machine user George Browne sent in this further information: When I worked at the Jane Street firehouse in the late 1970s, there was a resident who…

Back and white photo, dated 1912, shows the crowd along Boulevard East near Van Clief's Hotel, who turned out to see the new Knox Motorized Fire Engine. The Pier 7 grain elevator looms large behind the engine. This photo from the collection of the…

Black and white photograph from 1912. This engine was given to Clifton Hose Company 3 with this rig when they moved from the edge of the Palisades at Boulevard East and 48th Street to the 4610 Park Ave Firehouse, where she still stands (104 years…

This certificate, issued by the Trustees of the Weehawken Fire Department in the Township of Union, County of Hudson, State of New Jersey, admitted Frederick H. Hermann as a new member of the Department, to serve for a term of 7 years. Dated March 6,…

Black and white photograph, circa 1927 of an early pumper from the Baldwin Hose Co., parked in from of St. Lawrence Church (at left). In 1912, the first modern motor-driven engine was purchased for the Clifton Hose Company firehouse on Park Avenue.…

Time Machine viewer Barbara Helmich sent in this colored photo in front of the 46th Street Firehouse and the following information: My Dad, Walter Helmich was a Weehawken fireman for 28 years. He retired in 1974. I'm not sure who the other firemen in…

Black and white photograph, circa 1970. According to George Browne, who got this picture from Dennis Cosgrove, who got it from Sean Sullivan, it shows Weehawken Fire Department Captain Joe Fredericks on the left and Chief Robert Cahill on the right.…

This is the cover from a catalog of fire engines published in 1959. The caption reads: Weehawken, N.J. - Raymond Lax, driver and member of the Weehawken New Jersey Fire Department gets an assist as he washes the department's new FWD pumper from a…