A few Niagara firefighters from years past are seen in this picture playing cards at the old fire hall on King Street.

While I don’t have the names of all the people pictured, included are Truman Yates, Horace Awd, Jim Henry, John Nesbit, Bill Ball and Ted Warner. Today the old fire hall is the restaurant called Grill on King. Previous to being the old fire hall it was Jack Greene’s livery stable where we could rent a saddle horse for $1.50 an hour. The horse trail went down Platoff Street to the Commons, where you were free to ride wherever you wanted.