A new video glimpse into Fire Station №23 care of Tampa Jay on youtube (starting roughly 3:20 into the video):
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Good to see work is progressing. Below are a few observations and factual notations:
•Fire Station №23 was constructed in 1909 and was dedicated in 1910. Hook & Ladder №8 was constructed in 1904, and then cut in half in 1914.
•The large pit that had been dug into the forward ⅙th of the apparatus bay's concrete floor has been filled in, and the attachments for the new I-beams have been set into sections of the new concrete. The digging took place back in September 2022 and is part of the effort to make the fire station compliant with L.A.'s current construction codes for earthquake reinforcement.
A 3D render of what these new supports will potentially look like was released by Brooks + Scarpa back in 2018.
The corresponding holes in the ceiling remain open while the refurbishment crew wait on the installation of the I-beams.
The drain located in this part of the apparatus bay (visible in this video has now been removed.
•The doorway leading into the vestibule for the fire chief's private elevator, noted as 1A on my old plans appears to have been expanded with the partial-demolition of the partition wall.
-While it's sad to see a chunk of the wall has been taken out, it's helped answer a question for me as to whether it was reinforced concrete, like the external walls, or achieved with hollow tile brick, like some of the walls on the upper storeys.
•The stringer for the new staircase (required to meet California's accesibility guidelines) has been installed onto the fall wall of the elevator vestibule, towards the 5th Street-end of the room.
•All of Fire Station №23's surviving period fittings have been temporarily removed to a location at 7th Street (per the man Jay is talking to. This location might be Fire Station №11.
•One of the large plywood boxes in the apparatus bay appears to store some of the remnants of the station's old horse stalls (likely the metal side panels).
•While Jay remarks that the doors at the front of Fire Station №23 are originals, I believe these are full-scale replicas that were constructed for Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
On the street-facing side they appear to largely blank, missing ornamentation details that mirror the inside faces of the doors. Also the smaller person-sized door that Winston didn't step through in Afterlife appears to be a sealed panel, lacking any apparatus to open... While photos taken of the station prior to it being borded up, showed locking mechanisms on this door - suggesting it could be opened at one point.
•The man Jay is talking to mentions the new elevator that's going to be put into the rear right-hand corner of the building, roughly where the door
•The pit that was dug into the concrete floor at the rear end of the station's apparatus bay, visible when Extraplasm visited in November 2022 has appears to have been mostly-filled in with new concrete (the one section that hasn't is the vertical access for the new elevator).
•According to the man Jay is talking to, the end goal of Brooks + Scarpa is to keep most of Fire Station №23 historic.
•According to the man Jay is talking to, the refurbishment project has been running for four years, suggesting it began in earnest in 2020 (and was then understandably delayed by the Coronavirus pandemic).
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Good to see work is progressing. Below are a few observations and factual notations:
•Fire Station №23 was constructed in 1909 and was dedicated in 1910. Hook & Ladder №8 was constructed in 1904, and then cut in half in 1914.
•The large pit that had been dug into the forward ⅙th of the apparatus bay's concrete floor has been filled in, and the attachments for the new I-beams have been set into sections of the new concrete. The digging took place back in September 2022 and is part of the effort to make the fire station compliant with L.A.'s current construction codes for earthquake reinforcement.
A 3D render of what these new supports will potentially look like was released by Brooks + Scarpa back in 2018.
The corresponding holes in the ceiling remain open while the refurbishment crew wait on the installation of the I-beams.
The drain located in this part of the apparatus bay (visible in this video has now been removed.
•The doorway leading into the vestibule for the fire chief's private elevator, noted as 1A on my old plans appears to have been expanded with the partial-demolition of the partition wall.
-While it's sad to see a chunk of the wall has been taken out, it's helped answer a question for me as to whether it was reinforced concrete, like the external walls, or achieved with hollow tile brick, like some of the walls on the upper storeys.
•The stringer for the new staircase (required to meet California's accesibility guidelines) has been installed onto the fall wall of the elevator vestibule, towards the 5th Street-end of the room.
•All of Fire Station №23's surviving period fittings have been temporarily removed to a location at 7th Street (per the man Jay is talking to. This location might be Fire Station №11.
•One of the large plywood boxes in the apparatus bay appears to store some of the remnants of the station's old horse stalls (likely the metal side panels).
•While Jay remarks that the doors at the front of Fire Station №23 are originals, I believe these are full-scale replicas that were constructed for Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
On the street-facing side they appear to largely blank, missing ornamentation details that mirror the inside faces of the doors. Also the smaller person-sized door that Winston didn't step through in Afterlife appears to be a sealed panel, lacking any apparatus to open... While photos taken of the station prior to it being borded up, showed locking mechanisms on this door - suggesting it could be opened at one point.
•The man Jay is talking to mentions the new elevator that's going to be put into the rear right-hand corner of the building, roughly where the door
•The pit that was dug into the concrete floor at the rear end of the station's apparatus bay, visible when Extraplasm visited in November 2022 has appears to have been mostly-filled in with new concrete (the one section that hasn't is the vertical access for the new elevator).
•According to the man Jay is talking to, the end goal of Brooks + Scarpa is to keep most of Fire Station №23 historic.
•According to the man Jay is talking to, the refurbishment project has been running for four years, suggesting it began in earnest in 2020 (and was then understandably delayed by the Coronavirus pandemic).
Statistics: Posted by Kingpin — January 18th, 2024, 2:19 pm