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5.14 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 2 7 out of own his basement," Peters tells me. "Because he had been a volunteer frefghter and chief, he had experienced frsthand the tragedies of fres. He knew that when a fre happened, people didn't always know their closest fre department, and the right phone numbers, especially in rural areas. Tis was in the days before you could call 9-1-1. So he came up with an idea of a decal that would have the right number that people could call that they could stick on their phone. It caught on all over the country. "Over time," Peters says, "Mr. Conway became interested in the history of fre engines and collected all these wonderful machines and trucks." It is a beautiful collection. About all it needs is a Dalmatian fre dog to ride up front. I 'm about to call it quits for the day on the Jefersonville tour, but a few doors down I run into a whole other kind of "museum": a real hardware store. Heuser Hardware is the kind of place that sells nails out of bins, scooping out by the pound. Last summer the store celebrated its 90th year in business. A couple of blocks more and I'm at the corner of Court and Kentucky avenues, looking at the Triangle Building, my fnal destination. True to its name, the building forms a triangle, with a wide shed roof on all three sides. Back in the day, it served as a passenger station for both the interurban and the city's trolley lines. Te wire roof sheltered waiting passengers from the elements. I pace of the sides of the tiny building — maybe 26 feet on two sides, 19 the third, narrowing down to just two feet at its point. Just big enough today for … Te Salon, "Hair, Nails, Tanning." Lowell Smith from the Howard Steamboat Museum recalls the frst time he boarded an interurban train at that station that carried him across the Ohio River on the Big Four Bridge to Louisville. "Te bridge didn't have the foor and the side walls like they've done now," says Smith. "I looked out the window and it was like being in an airplane — nothing but air, and the river way down below." Just downriver, next to the Kennedy Bridge, huge concrete piers are rising out of the water for yet another superhighway bridge that will be jammed with automobiles and semitrailer trucks the moment it opens. It'll just be people on "our" bridge. www.emeraldcoasting.com 24-31 Dept.indd 27 4/18/14 10:51 AM