Allison Esguerra, the owner of the Olde English Tea Room on South White Street with her husband, Jeff, is sending out messages to reassure her regular customers that the tea room is open and will stay open, but she is looking for a buyer(s) to continue the successful operation that is treasured by many.
The Tea Room was opened in 1996 by the previous owners, Tom and Judy Wishart, in a building built in 1926 that may have also been one of the locations for the wandering Wake Forest Post Office before its first permanent location, now a chiropractor’s office, opened in 1940.
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It is pretty ugly right now, but the entire Wake Forest Fire Department, members now and from years ago, are celebrating a 1942 Chevrolet truck that they found in some field in Youngsville. The department’s website says: “The WFFS has gotten a piece of its history back. The first Wake Forest Rural Fire Department pumper has been returned to Station #1 and will be refurbished over the next couple years. The truck is a 1942 Chevrolet 1 1/2-ton pumper that was purchased in 1956 from Civil Defense.” There are also pictures of the truck as it is now and as it was when it was in service.
Chief Ron Early did not say who found the truck or even knew it was in a field in Youngsville, but he did say, “We don’t have a lot of records on it right now but we are digging. What we have is some of our retired guys feeding us information. As soon as we get some information I’ll pass it on.”
