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Engine Company No. 20


The Companies The Fire Houses
  Engine Co.  20
  Engine Co.  20 Truck Co. 16
  Engine Co.  20 Truck Co. 20
. Task Force 20

  Task Force 20  R.A. 20

7/7/1907
1925
1932
1971
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Present

2144 Sunset Boulevard
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2144 Sunset Boulevard
  (new building - same location)

7/7/1907 - 1953
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10/15/ 1953 to Present


Engine Company 20
2144 Sunset Boulevard

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Circa 1907
Engine Company 20
2144 Sunset Boulevard

Opened July 1, 1907
Land Cost $ 1,000.
Building Cost $ 8,748.



Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Turk & Haelsig Photo

Engine Company 20
1908



Source: Fred Allen Collection
Curtsey: Captain Duane Warth, LAFD Retired
Engine Company 20

 

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Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Engine  20
Circa 1907
 
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Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

Hose Wagon 20
Circa 1907
 


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Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

The Boys out behind the station.
Circa 1907
 

FORCED FROM THEIR HOME

    In the days when social contacts among firemen were closer than they are today romance was of more than passing interest.  Such was the case when Lieut. Samuel Dodd prepared a home for his bride opposite Engine 20s, across the street on Sunset boulevard.  The intention was to take up occupancy of the cottage immediately after the ceremony.  While this was in progress, however, fellow firemen gained entrance into the house and completely redecorated it.  They gave plenty of attention to the outside decorations as well.  When the happy couple returned from the church they found the street filled with well wishers who curiously awaited their reaction to the efforts just made.  So profuse were the arrangements and so many were the articles symbolic of married bliss the couple was compelled to take up temporary quarters in a downtown hostelry until such time as the rooms could be cleared and the placards removed.

1907


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Source: Rodger Embury Collection
Hose Wagon 20
Driver George Walker
Circa 1907
 


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