The next summer, back in Bower Hill, Montgomery Avenue is still unpaved. This photo was taken from the front of the fire station. The houses on Montgomery Avenue are still easy to identify, eighty years later, though none has a front picket fence in 2007.

Eighty years have taken their toll on this photo, also taken in front of the fire station on Montgomery Avenue. The thirteen men in these photos may well have been the original Bower Hill firefighters.

A front-end view of the vehicle at an unidentified parade shows that it still had the capability to be hand-cranked for starting, though electric starting was standard by this time. Note that there's no windshield, and the warning bell is right over the driver's left shoulder.



This photo appears to have been taken about where the corner of Knox Street and Roosevelt Street is today. The child in the light suit is Karl Oelschlager, who would grow up to be fire chief through the late 1950s and again in 1966, and department president in 1989. In 1929, when this photo was taken, "Drum Major" was an officer position. Albert Gastgeb (standing at front left) held it that year.