Alabama Yesterdays: Random wanderings through Alabama history
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
University of Alabama Takes Over Jefferson Hospitals
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Well, here we have the beginning of the vast University of Alabama at Birmingham medical center and hospitals that exist today. I found this...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Beulah Vee Wright at the State Archives
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Last month I received a letter from Mary Taylor Peake, Assistant Registrar at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery. ...
Thursday, September 3, 2026
Birmingham's St. Vincent's Hospital on Postcards
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In 2014 I posted an item about a photograph of St. Vincent's Hospital that appeared in a 1908 book Views of Birmingham . That photograp...
Sunday, August 23, 2026
Wayne Rogers Gets "The Big Kick"
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Back in 2020 I posted an item about the 1959 crime film Odds Against Tomorrow which has a couple of Alabama connections, one of them tenuo...
Thursday, August 6, 2026
Chloroform in Montevallo in 1848
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General anesthesia using gases for surgery is one of America's great nineteenth century medical achievements. In early 1845 dentist Hora...
Monday, July 27, 2026
Red Hot & Lovely in Gadsden in 1941
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"A Torrid Extravaganza" the ad declares. "Daring Glamorous Beauties in Risque Dances." In Gadsden, Alabama, in 1941? We...
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Hospital News from Gadsden in 1944
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In 2023 I posted an item related to my visit to Huntsville Hospital in 1958. That admission for a tonsillectomy was documented in a Huntsvi...
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