I was sorry to see this Gentleman has passed. This was very interesting. I love how he made all the switches and things for his basement system. He clearly had a very loving Wife. God speed sir.
He was most likely referring to the late Chief Robert Fitz, Sr., who had an absolutely amazing personal museum in his basement and was a wealth of knowledge regarding the Gamewell systems.
Sounds like vultures circling for the leftovers with a question like that, he died apparently 3 days after the video and some of the antique pieces are at the Fire Station #4 Training and History Room.
I have a number of boxes and one bell, some from NY City, including one of the 7 foot tall 900 pound cast iron "VF" posts that were custom designed for NY City and the most beautiful pedestal boxes around. I have one connected to a bell here; watch?v=Po_lPSOjd7o and one of the NYC boxes which is complete with it's original anti false alarm bell- most of them were removed years ago from the inside of the doors watch?v=YyL9wvja_ZU The "VF" pedestal I restored, in this "shorts" the door had only primer on it, but it had the "anti false alarm bell" on it too; shorts/RKnzW7zSCkY
I was sorry to see this Gentleman has passed. This was very interesting. I love how he made all the switches and things for his basement system. He clearly had a very loving Wife. God speed sir.
R.I.p
My grandpa told me about these systems but i didn't fully understand how it worked until now. This is cool
That’s some interesting stuff! I hope to see you post more videos! I’m just outside of Oak Ridge as well! - Samuel
so... many... bells
i counted 14 just now
@@wigwagstudios2474 oh wow
so cool
Who in Lebanon?
He was most likely referring to the late Chief Robert Fitz, Sr., who had an absolutely amazing personal museum in his basement and was a wealth of knowledge regarding the Gamewell systems.
R i p
Any of that for sale??
Sounds like vultures circling for the leftovers with a question like that, he died apparently 3 days after the video and
some of the antique pieces are at the Fire Station #4 Training and History Room.
I have a number of boxes and one bell, some from NY City, including one of the 7 foot tall 900 pound cast iron "VF" posts that were custom designed for NY City and the most beautiful pedestal boxes around.
I have one connected to a bell here; watch?v=Po_lPSOjd7o and one of the NYC boxes which is complete with it's original anti false alarm bell- most of them were removed years ago from the inside of the doors watch?v=YyL9wvja_ZU
The "VF" pedestal I restored, in this "shorts" the door had only primer on it, but it had the "anti false alarm bell" on it too; shorts/RKnzW7zSCkY