Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: department

Murray D. Van Wagoner Building in the Michigan Capitol Complex, Lansing, Michigan. The Department of Transportation--usually called MDOT--lives here.

They bought the Chief a Buick. Martin Sernstinger took a bunch of photographs of Kalamazoo fire equipment in the mid-1950s; they have the look of official photographs but it's quite possible he was a firefighter. I inherited these pix from my dad, who was a firefighter for much of that decade. This photo was taken at the Kalamazoo fairgrounds; the horse-racing oval is in the background. I always thought that grandstand was something wonderful. Explored! #376 on Saturday, July 5, 2008, but no longer in the day's top 500. Thanks!

Another of Martin Sernstinger's delightful mid-1950s photographs of the equipment used by the Kalamazoo Fire Department. This is a wonderful photograph of what was already an old truck, though the print was a bit battered. Not sure where it was taken, but it probably goes with the pumper-in-action photo I posted a few weeks back. Approximately 1955; Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Another Martin Sernstinger photograph from the mid-1950s.... An absolutely glorious photograph of Kalamazoo Fire Department's engine 12, parked in front of what appears to be old Station 5. Kalamazoo's firefighters used to work from some really delightful buildings.

Kalamazoo firefighters, out playing with an old fire engine at the Kalamazoo fairgrounds, in 1955 or thereabouts. Another Martin Sernstinger photo inherited from my father, who was a KFD firefighter when he was young (and I was really young).