In 1946, twenty Duncanville businessmen met at Linwood Hayne’s service station at Main and Davis and agreed the town needed a fire department. Each man put in at least $20. Neighbors built a one-room station by hand, and a siren went up on the water tower. One tone sent the volunteers north of town. Two sent them east.
Eighty years on, a midcentury building on North Main that its new owners say once housed the town’s volunteer firefighters is sending out plates of beef cheek pastrami.
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