Allen's Dodge Dealership and Ambulance Service on Minnesota Street (renamed 123rd Street West) Savage Minnesota was established at the same location in 1915. When owner Ed Allen retired in 1973, he sold the business, which became Southside Dodge. A portion of the original building remains in use as McHale Auto Body. Del Stelling worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer, covering Savage, Burnsville, Eagan and other areas of Dakota County, Minnesota from 1959 - 1984.
Three Pierce Arrow and one GMC ambulances at Minneapolis General Hospital; drivers pictured left to right are Louis Parsons, Nick Polucci, and Ray Maisonneuve.
A 1949 Packard was the first ambulance for the City of New Brighton. A group of local men organized to provide the vital ambulance service at a time when there were no hospitals in the local community. The vehicle sits in front of the New Brighton Fire Station, built in 1947.
Two Minneapolis City Hospital staff members are shown transferring a patient from a Winton ambulance to the Minneapolis City Hospital's Contagion Building.