March 2016 Meeting Information
Hello Studio
Chapter Family and Friends
– With all this heat and the mid-year
show and sale this past weekend you would think we were in the middle of July!
Hope you are all enjoying the heat—or at least taking advantage of it somehow. J If you did make it to the show and sale we also hope you found some
new treasures to add to your collection or, at least, got to visit with friends
and other club members. We have information on our March meeting below. Similar
to the Union Station tour space is limited so it does require an RSVP. Also
please note the RSVP email for this tour. Please do not reply to this email to
RSVP. (But, if you do accidentally, we will forward it onto Steve so no worries
J ) We hope you can join us as it sounds interesting!
For our March meeting we will
be touring The County of Los Angeles Fire Museum
Association museum. They have
brought together a collection including more than 60 examples of historic
apparatus, some dating back to the 1800s, as well as hundreds of artifacts and
thousands of photographs, related to Los Angeles County firefighting. The
most popular vehicles in the collection are the original paramedic/rescue Squad
51 and the two Engine 51s from the 1970’s television
show, “Emergency!” The collection is currently housed in warehouse
locations in South Gate and Bellflower, California, as construction gets
underway on a permanent museum building nearby in Bellflower.
Also included in the
collection are two vehicles that will be popular with members of the Studio
Chapter - an 1888 Silsby Steam Fire Engine, and a 1916 American LaFrance Fire
Engine (aka: the Disneyland Fire Engine driven around Main Street, U.S.A.
and used as a mobile bandstand for the Firehouse 5 - Plus Two Dixieland Jazz
band). Both vehicles belonged to Ward Kimball, and were donated to the
museum after his passing.
After our tour, we will make
our way to a local eatery for lunch and socializing.
RSVP’s ARE REQUIRED.
Our volunteer can handle a group of 20. If we have more, he can arrange
for a second volunteer, and we will split the group in 2, with a maximum group
size of 40. Email RSVP’s to info@thestudiochapter.org on or before March
13th.
While the museum does not
charge for tours, the Studio Chapter is requesting a donation of $5 from
each attendee, to help the museum’s efforts. Acquisitions, restorations
and operating funds for the museum are supported by monthly and annual membership
dues paid by over 3,000 active-duty Los Angeles County fire fighters, retirees,
members of other fire departments and the public. No federal, state or
local funds are provided for this effort.
When: Sunday, March 20th, starting at 10:00am (allow
about 2 hours for the tour)
Where: Los Angeles County Fire Museum - 9834 Flora Vista
Street, Bellflower, CA 90706
RSVP: Forward or send an email to Steve Lombard at: info@thestudiochapter.org on or before March 13th.
Payment: Please bring your $5 cash or check donation with you
to the tour.
Let’s Eat!: We will determine a local restaurant to have lunch
at after the tour. If you can, please indicate if you are interested in
joining the group for lunch so we can plan.
