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  • Subject is exactly "Hose Companies"
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Boys pulling a fire hose cart. From front to back, they are Will Williamson, John Daverson, Ben Knight, John McMesmouy(?), Ralph Bradley, Harry Chace, Harry Steen, George Jenkins, Lou Queril, Don Roff, Mattie(?) Otto, Harry Cope.

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

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Parade on Pacific Avenue, viewed from the corner of Lincoln and Pacific. The group in the front is the Alert Hose Company, a volunteer fire brigade. The building on the right with the squared off tower is the Masonic Hall. Further down the street, on…

Date: 1873--1899 (when first town clock was destroyed by fire) The 1879 Directory lists Lyman Swan as having a bakery on Pacific Avenue.
Type: PHOTO

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Enouch (Nooky) Alzina, a member of the Santa Cruz Alert Hose Company and last volunteer fire chief for Santa Cruz City from 1889 to 1894.

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

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Portrait of Frank Ely, the volunteer foreman of the Santa Cruz Pilot Hose Company, 1889, and the first paid Santa Cruz City Fire Department Chief from 1894-1897.

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

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Members of the Alert Hose Company pulling a hose cart.

Date: ca. 1885
Type: PHOTO

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Group portrait of the members of Alert Hose Company, which was an organization of volunteer fire fighters. At that time, hose carts were pulled by teams of men, rather than horses. In 1882, Alert Hose became the State Hose Cart champions in a hose…

Date: 1882
Type: PHOTO

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Boys pulling a hose cart (emulating the volunteer fire companies?). Early fire companies used teams of men to pull the hose cart to the site of the fire. They participated in competitions to prove which company had the fastest team.

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

AR-006.pdf

Date: 1896
Source: Excerpted from: Santa Cruz County; a faithful reproduction in print and photography of its climate, capabilities, and beauties. 1896. pp. 133-134.
Type: ARTICLE

Date: 1885-05-04
Source: Santa Cruz Daily Surf 1885-05-04: page 1 column 1
Type: NEWS

Date: 1883-06-07
Source: Santa Cruz Daily Surf 1883-06-07: page 3 column 2
Type: NEWS

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