Engine Company 33

SALE!!! FIRE SALE!!! I cannot believe «This Old Firehouse» hehehe is for Sale. Noooooooooo
The firehouse of Engine Company 33, was built in 1896. It is located in the Historic San Francisco Neighborhood of Oceanview. On «Church Row» my term AKA Broad Street 94 112.
Oceanview is my hood ‘member? O.M.I Fool! I told you. I live in «Ingleside» but the entire neighborhood is chiama… what OMI.
Oceanview is also known as Lakeview. I could spend days « Unilocaling» about this neighborhood. I am going to be doing walking tours of my hood in «Spring 2008» when it heats up a bit.
Back in the day… and thanks to
and the Western Neighborhood Project for the History. All Props due. I love them.
The Ocean View, as a village, was self-​contained. It had its own police station, a post office, fire station, bakery, school and not a few saloons.
Ocean View Branch Library was the 15^th branch established in the San Francisco Public Library system. On January 2, 1902, the first «library deposit station» was opened in the Ocean View district. The Ocean View Branch Library opened in 1903 on Broad Street near the corner of Capitol Avenue.
But the Firehouse ya’ll…dam! I want it. Where is my benefactor?
Victorian style Engine Co.33 was built on property purchased in 1895 from Delia and Albert Hall for the price of $ 350.00. Designed by Charles R. Wilson and constructed entirely of redwood, the firehouse has 20 foot ceilings on two floors. The building façade incorporates Classical Revival architectural influences with symmetrical and geometric embellishments. The hose drying tower is three stories tall, rising over sixty feet above the street. Located in the Southwest corner of San Francisco in the Ocean View district, this firehouse was originally built to protect a woman’s college planned for the neighborhood, but was never built. Ten years later, after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, this area famous for its wild flowers and frog ponds, started being developed as residential neighborhood.
In 1896 there was a fire in a munitions factory in Colma, and Engine 33 was dispatched to assist in fighting the blaze. This was the first San Francisco act of mutual aid to a neighboring fire department. When the Department was converting to motorized apparatus between 1912 and 1922, Engine 33 was one of the last two companies to bid farewell to their horse-​drawn apparatus. In 1974 the firehouse was deactivated and Engine 33 was moved to new quarters nearby at 8 Capitol Street.
Since 1977, this firehouse has been privately owned by Robert and Marilyn Katzman, SFFD Historical Society members and two of San Francisco’s most flamboyant fire buffs. The Katzman’s open their 110 year old firehouse, which is a «living museum of San Francisco history» to the public by appointment. The couple also provides a unique way to tour the City — in their beautifully restored 1955 Mack Fire Engine. Their famous Golden Gate Bridge tour includes authentic fire gear to keep you warm on San Francisco’s foggy days.
I am not as Crazy as Lillian Coit «Coit Tower» Firemen Chasing Woman… well if I had her Millions… hmmm?
I do like knowing the History of San Francisco Neighborhoods… especially West of Twin Peaks. It is a Multi-​Ethnic hood. People for the most part are friendly… like old time San Francisco… before the Dot. Commies and The New Yorkers and other Transplants…
The old «Tower of Power» San Francisco Vibe… Wear Flowers in your hair… I am such a Hippy Chick.
94 132 Unilocalin’ about what she knows… The OMI.