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Re: Vintage siren photos thread

Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:11 pm

carexpertandy wrote:Looks like San Francisco? And would really consider this picture to be old enough to be considered vintage? It's just hard for me to believe that something from the early 2000s would be considered that. BTW, I'm judging the age of the picture by the cars I see.
I think it may actually be mid or very late '90s. We'll consider it vintage anyway since it shows a siren that's no longer there.
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Re: Vintage siren photos thread

Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:19 pm

Brendan W wrote:I think it may actually be mid or very late '90s. We'll consider it vintage anyway since it shows a siren that's no longer there.
It could be as early as 1999, because I spy a Ford Taurus taxi that would have to be as old as a 2000.
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Re: Vintage siren photos thread

Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:21 pm

Thanks stormsetter!!!!! Yes. SFO. "Vintage" as in the siren is no longer there.
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Re: Vintage siren photos thread

Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:08 am

I have some photos of a few of Norman's old sirens and Mustang Thunderbolts from around 2010-11. None of them are there anymore. I wouldn't consider them vintage by any means. I'd say before 2000 would be old enough to be considered vintage, but that's my personal discretion.

OP, can we please set this straight by defining "vintage" since apparently there's a lot of confusion on what it really means? :think:
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Re: Vintage siren photos thread

Wed Mar 25, 2015 3:38 am

I thought vintage either meant a really old siren or a slightly old picture (maybe 90s or before)
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Re: Vintage siren photos thread

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ACACyclone120 wrote:I thought vintage either meant a really old siren or a slightly old picture (maybe 90s or before)
It seems to me vintage means old photographs (I guess before 2000?) like most of the others are here.

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Re: Vintage siren photos thread

Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:12 pm

Personally, I consider vintage (in terms of pictures) to be anything from the late 90s or before. Now, although I'm probably going to sound like a *female dog* for this, can we please stop drifting off topic?
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Re: Vintage siren photos thread

Thu Mar 26, 2015 3:59 pm

Brendan W wrote:Now, although I'm probably going to sound like a *female dog* for this, can we please stop drifting off topic?
Don't worry, you said it a lot more polite than I was feeling.

I remember a vintage picture of an Edgewater, CO building with a siren. I can confirm a Fedelcode Model 2 still exists in Edgewater. I just can't find the old pic.
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Re: Vintage siren photos thread

Thu Mar 26, 2015 4:28 pm

Here are some pictures that showed up in the Cincinnati thread sometime last year. These Thunderbolt pictures were taken in the early 90s before the station was demolished in 1994. It was then moved to a nearby street corner, but replaced with a 2001-SRN about 10 years later.

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Re: Vintage siren photos thread

Sat Apr 04, 2015 8:58 pm

I found this vintage postcard photo on eBay of a Mobil Directo siren at the Seaward, AK, city office building in 1953. If you look closely at the Mobil Directo you can see that the horn was turned in a vertical position. I don't know why they did that but that sure does look strange. I looked on google maps to see if the Mobil Directo was still there. And sure enough it was! The horn was still in a vertical position and there was a Whelen siren next to it. They are both on a fire station. BTW, theres a 3rd siren somewhere in the 1st picture. Try find it! :lol:
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