The Oakland City Council Preservation Board was quite upset. They launched an investigation and the school district stone walled them. We suspect it went to scrap.
It's painted red on top of the fire station located on Andrews street
near North St.. Not the best neighborhood.
To my knowledge, it hasn't run in years & years. And yes, we are working on this project.
It is in Rochester at a fire station. A friend has been attempting to get them to let it go for almost six years now. They keep making noises about restoring it. Now would be the time I would swoop in and make a move. With a tight economy many cities are "motivated". It took me two years o...
When I finally removed the siren from its' resting place it had been sitting unused for nearly four decades. A freeze in the Oakland Hills in the 70's cracked the block and cylinder heads. We removed it in May of 07' and we needed to have it running by July 4th of that year. (That is another story) ...
I am new to this board so I am just looking around. I own one siren at this time. It is a Chrysler Victory Siren. It is in working condition AND I have an original owners manual for it.
The party boat siren came from the Woodminster Theatre. The school siren in Oakland mysteriously dissappeared a week before I was to remove it for restoration.