'63 Superior Pontiac ex-military rig serving Watkins Glen in '76. Think that body language worked for him? 
Real Life Ambulance Scene Pictures
- Thread starter Paul Steinberg
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Tony Karsnia - Deceased - 1971-2020
September 12, 1971 - November 2, 2020
This is likely to be the Miller Cadillac shown in Attila's post 232. It was one of several cars (and not all identical) operated by Olsen Ambulance Service of Minneapolis. I don't believe Minneapolis General Hospital was operating ambulance service that late into the 1940s, so I suspect the cot blanket to be older. As time went on, Henry & Rose Olsen liked to adorn everything with their logo, so it also might be somewhat of a fluke that a MGH cot blanket is seen here.
(Karsnia collection)
(Karsnia collection)
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Lime Rock SCCA race 4/27/58. Porsche 356 Carrera #117 driver Hodge Brush spun coming out of the final turn on only the fourth lap and rolled off course. Despite receiving immediate medical attention, Brush died en route to the hospital, reportedly of a broken neck. The race continued unaware of the consequences of his accident.
This image subsequently ran in 9/58 Speed Age magazine (with incorrectly spelled last name).
This image subsequently ran in 9/58 Speed Age magazine (with incorrectly spelled last name).
Martyn Donaldson
PCS Member
Chicago Sun-Times, Aug 1962, a '59 M-M ambulance is used to move Hampden Manor residents to another nursing home..
strange they have her on the #10 not the gurney. can't see if there is one more on it. notice the. I lost the gas cap this one will fit.
When you're moving all the patients from a nursing home, you put as many as you can in the ambulance. It looks like there is already a patient on the main cot.
how true. I could not tell if there were going in or out but what ever they they are doing they did not get left enough room to move the gurney.
Wayne Krakowski
PCS Member
When their backs give out they realized if we put the second patient on the cot and then onto the main stretcher easier to load,then take main cot back in and get another patient. From years of loading the 4 stretcher superior Pontiacs we had, I learned very quickly there is a right way and the hard way
Martin Harvey
PCS Member
http://jailamemoirequitourne.histor...i-fait-monter-un-patient-sur-civiere-accident
Miller's 1959 ambulance on scene, 1960. Filmed by a tourist.
Miller's 1959 ambulance on scene, 1960. Filmed by a tourist.
James Fischer
PCS Member
Peninsula Ambulance service San Mateo Ca Circa late 1940's
James Fischer
PCS Member
Peninsula Ambulance Service San Mateo CA Circa 1960
Picture taken from where Kaiser Hospital sits today
Picture taken from where Kaiser Hospital sits today
James Fischer
PCS Member
Another Peninsula Ambulance photo circa 1950
Ambulance was responding to auto accident in Redwood City with multiple injured ............DOGS...!!
Attendant was DOA and driver later succumbed to his injuries.....
Ambulance was responding to auto accident in Redwood City with multiple injured ............DOGS...!!
Attendant was DOA and driver later succumbed to his injuries.....
If you're getting the [X] like I am, you can go to this link to see the pics and read a good history on the ambulance service:
http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sanmateo/history/ambulance/smambulance.htm
http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sanmateo/history/ambulance/smambulance.htm
James Fischer
PCS Member
Thanks Steve,I was getting them 2nd hand from a friend that lives in the East Bay....
Keith Snyder
PCS Member
Thanks to Mr. Lichtman for posting the link to the history of Peninsula Ambulance. That crumpled ambulance appears to have been a 42.5-inch headroom, 1961 Miller-Meteor Sentinel. The vehicles lined up in front of the building are (from left to right) a 1961 Flxible-Buick Flxette, a 1956 Ford station wagon, a 1960 Superior-Cadillac Royale Rescuer, a 1961 Superior-Cadillac Royale Rescuer, a 1959 Superior-Cadillac Royale Rescuer and a 1952 National-Ford. I sent the link to Tom McPherson and he reports that: "The 1961 Flxible-Buick is a Flxette Model FB-630-61 that was sold to Peninsula Ambulance Service in Redwood City, California by C. V. Whitehorne & Company of Tarzana, California (Flxible's California dealer). It was Flxible's body number 1182 with motor number 4H-1040523 and was delivered to Peninsula on June 20, 1961." Just thought that this may be of interest to some of you.
Korean War casualties arriving at Bolling Air Force Base for transfer to Walter Reed Army General Hospital, Washington DC, dated 9/50. Early post-war Superior.
USAF photo.
Look closely - no side windows.
USAF photo.
Look closely - no side windows.
Kinda looks like no one got out of that one alive..yikes
Korean War casualties arriving at Bolling Air Force Base for transfer to Walter Reed Army General Hospital, Washington DC, dated 9/50. Early post-war Superior.
USAF photo.
Look closely - no side windows.
Very similar to how we do it now...only newer equipment.
I flew airevac in Germany '91-'96. Forklifts, firetrucks, ambulances, and ambuses all over the place. Great mission.