Air Raid Siren
The wailing of a siren was for many years a tradition in small towns across America. When that siren went off at 10 p.m. you knew it was time for curfew. It's a sound that stopped generations of youth in their tracks and marked the conclusion of a night of outdoor fun. No matter where you were, you would beat feet to get home. When you heard the siren at other times of day you knew either to be on the lookout for a fire or enemy bombers.
There are many stories about this particular siren. By piecing the stories together we believe it was originally installed in the early 1940s on top of city hall and later moved to the triangle area bounded by Hwy 2, Boyer and Pine, and was used to announce a curfew and fires for generations of Sandpoint citizens. As far as records indicate, it was never sounded for an air raid.
The siren remained along Hwy 2 until the 1980s.
Donor: Royal Shields
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The wailing of a siren was for many years a tradition in small towns across America. When that siren went off at 10 p.m. you knew it was time for curfew. It's a sound that stopped generations of youth in their tracks and marked the conclusion of a night of outdoor fun. No matter where you were, you would beat feet to get home. When you heard the siren at other times of day you knew either to be on the lookout for a fire or enemy bombers.
There are many stories about this particular siren. By piecing the stories together we believe it was originally installed in the early 1940s on top of city hall and later moved to the triangle area bounded by Hwy 2, Boyer and Pine, and was used to announce a curfew and fires for generations of Sandpoint citizens. As far as records indicate, it was never sounded for an air raid.
The siren remained along Hwy 2 until the 1980s.
Donor: Royal Shields
Adopted By: