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Spokane's Big Joe locations

Tue Mar 08, 2016 9:59 am

I found an online archived news piece, with the location of Spokane WA's 3 Chrysler "Big Joe" sirens:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid= ... 2157&hl=en

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Re: Spokane's Big Joe locations

Tue Mar 08, 2016 10:08 am

And, a piece about Pittsburgh trying out a Victory siren in 1942:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid= ... 4358&hl=en

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Re: Spokane's Big Joe locations

Tue Mar 08, 2016 10:13 am

Then, Pittsburgh had problems with the impellers exploding in the blowers of Big Joes:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid= ... 6126&hl=en

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Re: Spokane's Big Joe locations

Tue Mar 08, 2016 10:19 am

I guess they've been removed? If they are still there I wish I would've known when I was up there a couple years ago.

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Re: Spokane's Big Joe locations

Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:12 pm

Spokane no longer has victory sirens sadly... I do however know that my thunderbolt was purchased from Spokane by waldport (the town I got it from) and it was told that my bolt was part of the system.
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Re: Spokane's Big Joe locations

Wed Mar 09, 2016 11:10 pm

I was in Spokane on Monday and there were no sirens to be seen anywhere. The fire station at Division and Gordon is still there but the siren is long gone.
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Re: Spokane's Big Joe locations

Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:59 am

Daniel wrote:I was in Spokane on Monday and there were no sirens to be seen anywhere. The fire station at Division and Gordon is still there but the siren is long gone.
On top of that it's probably scrapped.
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