Flashback : Dallas

by Paula Bosse

Above and below, an interesting collection of snapshots of firehouses which were dotted around the city in 1951.

Edited: Because I found so many weird errors in the magazine’s captions (“Almons Road” is supposed to be “Abrams Road,” for instance…), I just went and looked them all up. There are a lot of errors! The corrected list — or at least the best I could do — is below. A surprising number of the buildings are still standing.

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CORRECTED LOCATIONS

1) Station No. 32: 7007 Benning (at Jim Miller, in Urbandale)

2) Station No. 22: 3004 Armstrong (at Central Expressway)

3) Station No. 16: 5501 Columbia

4) Station No. 4: 1602 Young Street

5) Station No. 3: 3215 Gaston (see it around 1901 in the first photo in this post)

6) Station No. 14: 834 W. Tenth (and Tyler)

7) Station No. 12: 2300 S. Ervay

8) Station No. 13: 425 S. Hampton

9) Station No. 7: 706 E. 10th

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10) Station No. 18: 1003 McKinney

11) Station No. 23: 1735 S. Ewing

12) Station No. 31: 9365 Garland Rd.

13) Station No. 19: 5600 East Grand

14) Station No. 31: 9365 Garland Rd. (again!)

15) Station No. 5: 3801 Parry

16) Station No. 11: 3828 Cedar Springs (which I wrote about here)

17) Station No. 8: 4422 Live Oak

18) Central Station: 2111 Main (now 2121 Main)

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19) Station No. 29: 2449 Abrams Rd.

20) Love Field Station

21) Station No. 6: 2202 Forest Avenue (several pictures of this station are in this post)

22) UNKNOWN

23) Station No. 24: 2331 Poplar

24) Station No. 15: 600 N. Bishop (now Gloria’s restaurant — I wrote about the station here)

25) Station No. 27: 8401 Douglas

26) Station No. 26: 3303 W. Jefferson

27) Station No. 17: 5435 Lewis

28) Station No. 25: 4239 Lancaster

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Sources & Notes

Photos are from the trade magazine Texas Fireman, 75th Anniversary Edition (June 1951), which is scanned in full here (the individual photo montages are on pages 40, 42, and 44); from the collection of the Dallas Firefighters Museum, via the Portal to Texas History.

See a few fire houses from 50 years before the ones seen above, in the Flashback Dallas post “Dallas Fire Stations — 1901.”

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