Folly’s First Firetrucks
Folly Beach got its first fire truck, an International Harvester, in 1941. In this picture, local Folly women show off the new vehicle. (L-R: Unknown, Marion Smith, Helen Barbery, Maida Dudley). Thirty-three years later, on ‘Kids Day’ in October 1974, local children got the chance to don firemen hats and cruise around Folly in the city’s shiny 500 gallon-per-minute pumper truck.
Images courtesy of John Jacobs, the Folly Beach Civic Club and Wallace Benson. Images like these are included in Stratton Lawrence’s book, Images of America: Folly Beach. To purchase your own personalized signed copies or to share a photo and story for next month’s Folly Flashback column, email Stratton at strattonlawrence@gmail.com.
