I took this photo after work one day around sunset, in March of 2008.Seen here on Central Avenue just south of West 65th Street, is Fire Station # 2 of the Bedford Park Fire Department.
Everyday, these brave men and woman put their lives on the line, and do their absolute best to keep the industrial village of Bedford Park safe.
This fire station is located just south of Chicago's Midway Airport. It is just up the street from the Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing Yard facility.
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Until the 1960's Chicago furnished fire protection for the whole Clearing Industrial District. Now they have built a third station at 73rd and Oak Park and are moving number two to 67th & Leclaire.
The building on the right was the Walter Schenk Lumber Company and in the early 1960's a friend and I would go there and load up scrap from around the saws, pull it home in our little red wagons, and chop it into kindling wood. We would sell it for 25 cents a bushel which we thought was big money. The homes in Chrysler Village were built with coal gravity furnaces as there was not enough natural gas to go around until about 1960.
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