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Fire Truck Birthdays: 1993

The two pictures above were taken at a 1993 birthday party with a fire truck owned by Sheldon Rosengarten and Henry Brenner. Sarah-Catherine Ryan, then around 3 and a half years old, can be seen sitting on the squirrel tail hose in the left photo. Brenner says he charged $200 a birthday party for use of the truck to raise funds for the Fire Museum of Memphis, which opened in October 1998. Bought at a city auction in 1991, the truck is a 1961 Peter Pirsch Pumper that Brenner’s father, Lester H. Brenner, had previously sold to the City of Memphis. The truck has been a part of the Fire Museum of Memphis since 2001, when the younger Brenner donated it.

Photo courtesy of Henry Brenner

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