new pictures = new post

thanks to the generous use of the badgers' scanner, here are some pictures i wasn't able to share before from the book, with a few others for comparison.

this is hose house #2. so you don't have to page down, it was on vine, and was later a USO, but is now parking lots.

here's a shot of #9, also quite gone. this was the all black hose house. honestly, when i saw the picture i thought that it could be a store and i could have seen it a dozen times and not known it was a firehouse. alas, nothing remotely resembling this building is anywhere within a reasonable distance of that intersection.

at left, the picture i wanted to share so badly, #6 while in use. at right, for comparison, #6 as it looks today. shorter, shabbier, and sans bay window.

in the list of register historic places in indiana for vanderburgh county, you'll find old hose house #4 (also #10 and #12). at 623 ingle street, you'll find only a parking lot. why they haven't removed it from the list, or at least made a note about it no longer being there, in the last 13 years i couldn't say.

i apologize that the scanned pictures aren't really clear, but they are old pictures and were about that grainy in the book. i would have made them bigger so you could see them better, but then the comparison pics wouldn't fit side by side.