By Alexia Campbell
Palm Beach Post Sun Sentinel
A time capsule hidden in the wall of a 45-year-old fire station brought back memories of bingo nights firefighters hosted to pay the fire house bills.
Fire crews at county Station 31 on Lake Worth Road sawed open the copper box Friday, days before theplanned demolition of the building. During the formal closing ceremony, firefighters pulled out an old bingo card, faded photos, a Bible and yellowed newspaper clippings.
The items dated back to pre-1965, when the volunteer Trail Park Fire Department raised money to build a new station after a hurricane destroyed its original one on Military Trail. It was a time when the area west of Lake Worth was surrounded by farmland and Lake Worth Road was two lanes wide.