Real Life Ambulance Scene Pictures

[Attila Bethlenfalvy]

Pre-'49 Miller ambulance on a Pasadena call transporting to Huntington Memorial Hospital dated 5/6/52. Patient is a bystander that was hit in the face when an automotive gas tank being welded exploded.

Richardson photographer. Image from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

 

[Attila Bethlenfalvy]

'54-'55 Superior retrieving patient Percy Westmore after a suicide attempt in Hollywood dated 8/21/57.

Miller Photographer. Images from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

 

[David Smith]

Denver Post circa 1951

 

[Mike McDonald]

WOW... even a Hudson "Hornet" Cop Car! From the trunk emblem could have been the "twin carb" model? MM

 

[Kurt Arends]

"Twin H Power"!!

 

[Bruce Oliphant]

Denver Post circa 1951

I started at Reed in Denver as an apprentice in 1978. Thanks for posting this picture.

 

[Attila Bethlenfalvy]

Mass casualties arriving at Queen of Angels Hospital dated 5/3/56. CA plate W75800. Photographer must have done retake after poor flash reflection.

Mack Photographer. Images from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

Partition nor rear loading door shape look Superior. Recognize bumper step maybe?

 

[Jeremy D. Ledford]

Looks to be a Meteor going on rear corner glass.

 

[Steve Loftin]

Denver Post circa 1951

What is the story that goes with the picture?

 

[Attila Bethlenfalvy]

'57 MM snapped 7/64 in Tonawanda, NY.

Image courtesy Town of Tonawanda Police Department.

 

[Mike McDonald]

"Twin H Power"!!

THANKS KURT! I couldn't remember the proper "Twin-H" Term. (*) That happens a lot to old "worn out-high mileage" 1947 models like me! MM

 

[Mike McDonald]

Mass casualties arriving at Queen of Angels Hospital dated 5/3/56. CA plate W75800. Photographer must have done retake after poor flash reflection.

Mack Photographer. Images from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

Partition nor rear loading door shape look Superior. Recognize bumper step maybe?

I know you guys are probably getting tired of me "honing in" on the (CA) License Plates, but an W, X, Y or Z prefix in that era would signify that it's a Commercial "For Hire" Ambulance paying fees for every dollar earned to the CA State Board of Equalization rather than an EXEMPT County or State Public Service Vehicle. MM

 

[John ED Renstrom]

picked up this one today the subject was of interest. 53 national. at a coal mine accident in Pen. with what is going on in the east I think it's fitting. loaded up truck with all the trim, fender skirts removed for the season.

 

[Attila Bethlenfalvy]

Injuries sustained during a Inglewood cafe robbery attempt dated 12/30/57. James Best and bar owner Joseph Naymola shown in ambulance.

Sandusky photographer. Photos from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

 

[Dean Wilkinson]

Injuries sustained during a Inglewood cafe robbery attempt dated 12/30/57. James Best and bar owner Joseph Naymola shown in ambulance.

Sandusky photographer. Photos from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

What, no No Smoking signs in the ambulance?!

 

[Wayne Krakowski]

Can hear the medics now,"here calm down have a smoke"....

 

[John ED Renstrom]

SOP in the 50s. one look at these pictures and you can understand why I get indigestion over the secondhand smoke and you die commercial on the TV. to hear them no one of my generation could have live past two. I don't remember a time before the no smoking laws were pasted that I wasn't with some one that was smoking. inside or out.

but what is the car they are in. some "dead" give aways on the inside of it.

 

[Attila Bethlenfalvy]

Car hit a parked truck in Pacoima district of LA dated 4/1/52, resulting in 1 fatality and 3 critically injured. Will continue searching archives for daytime shot of this handsome two-tone '50 Flxible Buick Premiere ambulance! CA license X77080. Although front plate portion is partially blocked, it does have stacked vertical letters which may read COM.

Glickman photographer. Image from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

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[Attila Bethlenfalvy]

Heavy rains flooded Grande Vista Ave at Union Pacific Ave underpass stalling multiple vehicles as they inched along, including this early post-war ambulance, dated 2/12/52.

Mercurio photographer. Image from Los Angeles Examiner Collection.

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[Steve Loftin]

Heavy rains flooded Grande Vista Ave at Union Pacific Ave underpass stalling multiple vehicles as they inched along, including this early post-war ambulance, dated 2/12/52.

1947/48 Miller/Cadillac