Fire at the Chinese laundry

February 17, 2013
Jack Flinn
Well, looking back into my memory I recall a fire. It was in the early 1950s, not sure of the exact year.

I was a young boy on my bike, and one night I heard the sirens, so I followed the sound, which took me down the street to the fairgrounds.

As I went under the railroad trestle on the way, in front of me was a huge fire ... the laundry was ablaze, and I believe it was a Chinese laundry.

If a person looks straight ahead when passing under said trestle, you will see a vacant lot where that laundry once sat ... looking back.