dmathieu
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Thank you, sir! I think it's a keeper... Now to find an old Jeep or something to put it on!The Griffin lights had a G at the top. Looks nice to me!!
I have one that is similar; but it was built by Lectric-Lites, now in Ft. Worth, but based in Lubbock at the time I got the light. L-L started out as a small company run by a couple of brothers that built barricades and barricade lights. They decided to branch out sometime in the early '70s, building a large light bar known as the Ranger Strobe. They also started their own line of large lollipop lights and the magnetic beehive lights. The one I got was one of their early prototypes. I lost that light exactly 47 years ago yesterday when Lubbock was hit by a large F5 tornado. A friend of mine, the late Travis (Festus) Hagen sold ambulances for a Dallas co. that eventually became Modular Ambulance Corp. Travis kept his tradein vehicles on a shopping center lost close to his house; and I knew he had a well-equipped Olds station wagon ambulance at the time. I made it to his place and he pitched me the keys to the wagon. I handed him the beehive light and it went on an Olds combination, and he followed me. Long story short, the light became an early casualty from the store. Travis had driven under a tree that had a low-hanging limb as a result of the storm, and it knocked that light off like a baseball hit hitting a ball. End of that light. I actually found another one a few years ago that Dale Cohen (DCaptain) had, and that one I won't part with. It's hard to believe that 47 years have passed. My one "claim to fame" from that mess happened the following day, Tue. May 12, 1970. My partner on the ambulance, Rick, and I had responded out to the Lubbock Municipal Airport where a large Air Force transport had landed with cases and cases of whole blood. Someone in the state C.D. agency had panicked, thinking that the situation was worse than it was, given Lubbock's large size. So here Rick and I were loading all those cases into the back of a '64 Olds station wagon ambulance, when all of a sudden, three cameramen representing all three major TV networks walked up and got footage of us loading the back of the ambulance. That made national TV and I managed to get to see it one time. As to the tornado there were "only" 26 fatalities. Of course, that was 26 too many, but surprisingly small numbers, since Lubbock had a population of a bit more than 150,000 at the time. There were, however, about 1200 injuries. The Lubbock Municipal Coliseum became a refugee center and we were stationed there, transporting patients into then-Methodist Hospital (now Covenant Med. Ctr.) ER. We ran from Tue to Thurs, when they decided everyone was accounted for. I never wanted to do that again!OK, I recently got this little gem with two additional NOS lenses, replaced the plug and had to readjust the bulb to the photometric center. Pretty impressive little unit for what it is. Magnet-mount, original cord, not bad!
BTW, I got wrapped up on my tornado story and forgot to mention: In the mid-70s the Johnson brothers (Freddy and Ronny) moved their operation to Ft. Worth and eventually sold to Code 3. While still Lectric-Lites they built one electronic siren, the Trooper, which looked like a scaled-down Federal Director. I have one of those, too.I have one that is similar; but it was built by Lectric-Lites, now in Ft. Worth, but based in Lubbock at the time I got the light. L-L started out as a small company run by a couple of brothers that built barricades and barricade lights. They decided to branch out sometime in the early '70s, building a large light bar known as the Ranger Strobe. They also started their own line of large lollipop lights and the magnetic beehive lights. The one I got was one of their early prototypes. I lost that light exactly 47 years ago yesterday when Lubbock was hit by a large F5 tornado. A friend of mine, the late Travis (Festus) Hagen sold ambulances for a Dallas co. that eventually became Modular Ambulance Corp. Travis kept his tradein vehicles on a shopping center lost close to his house; and I knew he had a well-equipped Olds station wagon ambulance at the time. I made it to his place and he pitched me the keys to the wagon. I handed him the beehive light and it went on an Olds combination, and he followed me. Long story short, the light became an early casualty from the store. Travis had driven under a tree that had a low-hanging limb as a result of the storm, and it knocked that light off like a baseball hit hitting a ball. End of that light. I actually found another one a few years ago that Dale Cohen (DCaptain) had, and that one I won't part with. It's hard to believe that 47 years have passed. My one "claim to fame" from that mess happened the following day, Tue. May 12, 1970. My partner on the ambulance, Rick, and I had responded out to the Lubbock Municipal Airport where a large Air Force transport had landed with cases and cases of whole blood. Someone in the state C.D. agency had panicked, thinking that the situation was worse than it was, given Lubbock's large size. So here Rick and I were loading all those cases into the back of a '64 Olds station wagon ambulance, when all of a sudden, three cameramen representing all three major TV networks walked up and got footage of us loading the back of the ambulance. That made national TV and I managed to get to see it one time. As to the tornado there were "only" 26 fatalities. Of course, that was 26 too many, but surprisingly small numbers, since Lubbock had a population of a bit more than 150,000 at the time. There were, however, about 1200 injuries. The Lubbock Municipal Coliseum became a refugee center and we were stationed there, transporting patients into then-Methodist Hospital (now Covenant Med. Ctr.) ER. We ran from Tue to Thurs, when they decided everyone was accounted for. I never wanted to do that again!