The Siren Board

Hello everyone, Been a siren nut for quite some time. I currently only have two small vehicular sirens but am always looking for local large ones.

While looking through the site I noticed quite a few threads asking about locations of the Chrysler sirens. The following site has a wealth of information on the sirens in general. This link shows all the known locations of Chryslers on their initial installs.

I'm looking forward to learning from all the knowledgeable people here.

Well I live in the Chicago area, and according to Wikipedia, (not always right) All the Victory Sirens have been *sniffle* removed.

California has victory sirens in a lot of places… I hope to get one down at some point.

All I know is Chrysler sirens are really loud, they can be heard very far away and they have a HEMI V8 engine.

There's one sitting in the center of Greenville, SC nestled atop an old hotel building.

BigDick wrote:Hello everyone, Been a siren nut for quite some time. I currently only have two small vehicular sirens but am always looking for local large ones.

While looking through the site I noticed quite a few threads asking about locations of the Chrysler sirens. The following site has a wealth of information on the sirens in general. This link shows all the known locations of Chryslers on their initial installs.

I'm looking forward to learning from all the knowledgeable people here.

I feel so old now, I remember back when Dave Stall created that page....

Rheems1 wrote:
I feel so old now, I remember back when Dave Stall created that page....

I visited the site not long ago and it hadn't been updated in years. Not sure if he's still around or what. He used to post a lot on here but kind of just "dropped off" many years ago.

I Wanna Name wrote:Well I live in the Chicago area, and according to Wikipedia, (not always right) All the Victory Sirens have been *sniffle* removed.

Not quite buddy!

BigDick wrote:I hate to bring up ancient posts, but I actually went to the building where this is, talked to managers and got permission from the owners of the building (they're actually based in California, and the building is a self storage facility now). The tower that the siren is on is rickety as all get out. I'm actually really surprised it's still standing. The siren itself is in pretty rough shape, probably about 80-90% complete, but seems that everything is seized. Didn't check the rotors though. I may still have pictures of everything. I checked with a few companies about crane rental. With that building, the largest crane of the company I checked with wouldn't reach it. Their crane is hauled in on 3 semi trailers and takes 3 days to set up and tear down IIRC. Basically you'd have to have a 10k forklift going up in the freight elevator (which likely wouldn't fit anyway) to take it down, or you'd need a helicopter. Although the managers on site said the owners have had offers to buy and refused every time.

^That quote is a link

There's at least one still standing on it's original installed location. It's in KC on what used to be an Army Records Building.

BigDick wrote:

I Wanna Name wrote:Well I live in the Chicago area, and according to Wikipedia, (not always right) All the Victory Sirens have been *sniffle* removed.

Not quite buddy!

Wait what?

There are (at least) two Chryslers remaining of the Seattle system, both on metal towers. One, on Phinney Ridge northwest of Woodland Park Zoo, has been cosmetically restored but is not functional. The other, at Northacres Park, has not been restored at all.

The others:
Seattle Police Garage (building razed early 1980s)
Georgetown Steam Plant (visibly no longer in place - it's a museum now and I plan to ask)
City Light Warehouse (visibly no longer in place)
Washington Athletic Club (can't see it on satellite view, but unknown)
North of Columbia City (hunted, can't spot it, though a neighbor vaguely remembered 'something big on a tower' somewhere in the area. Neighborhood Association's oldest members had never heard of it)

Since Seattle had a whole lot of smaller sirens, Thunderbolts and others, and all have been removed, the Chryslers were probably sold as scrap. One turned up recently in rural Washington and was bought by a siren collector for restoration, but I have no idea which one it was, or if it was definitely a Seattle Chrysler as opposed to an Oregon one; all the Oregon Chryslers have been removed. I'd love to see the Northacres Park siren at least cosmetically restored.