{"id":3371,"date":"2018-05-26T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T19:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2018-05-26T15:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T19:42:24","slug":"chapel-hill-buys-ex-airport-pumper-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/chapel-hill-buys-ex-airport-pumper-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapel Hill Buys Ex-Airport Pumper, 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wait, what?<\/p>\n<p>See\u00a0these town\u00a0minutes* from\u00a0February 16, 1963. As it turns out, Chapel Hill&#8217;s 1962** American LaFrance pumper was a gently used model, that had been serving at the &#8220;Greenville airbase&#8221; for about three months, while the airport awaited delivery of a crash truck. Bought for $20,500, versus what would cost $26,000 new.<\/p>\n<p>As was customary during those decades, the University agreed to pay half.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>* Town minutes\u00a0are <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.townofchapelhill.org\/records\/\">available online<\/a>\u00a0and as far back as 1952. Wow! For max efficiency, however, you&#8217;ll need to (a.) download each, (b.) combine the PDF files, and (c.) perform OCR, to make them the most usable. Such as using Adobe Acrobat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>** Model year 1962 as best as can tell, though have seen citations as 1960.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-05-26-chfd-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-05-26-chfd-2-1024x807.jpg\" alt=\"2018-05-26-chfd-2\" width=\"730\" height=\"575\" border=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-05-26-chfd1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-05-26-chfd1.jpg\" alt=\"2018-05-26-chfd1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"594\" border=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/> Lee Wilson photo<\/p>\n<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"on\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fchapel-hill-buys-ex-airport-pumper-1963%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"3371\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Chapel Hill Buys Ex-Airport Pumper, 1963\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fchapel-hill-buys-ex-airport-pumper-1963%2F&text=Chapel+Hill+Buys+Ex-Airport+Pumper%2C+1963\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"3371\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Chapel Hill Buys Ex-Airport Pumper, 1963\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fchapel-hill-buys-ex-airport-pumper-1963%2F&description=Chapel+Hill+Buys+Ex-Airport+Pumper%2C+1963\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"3371\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Chapel Hill Buys Ex-Airport Pumper, 1963\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-pinterest\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait, what? 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