Alabama Yesterdays

Alabama Yesterdays: Random wanderings through Alabama history

Thursday, July 31, 2014

"Save the child if you would save the state": Newsboys in Birmingham in 1922

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               Serendipity can be a wonderful thing. Working on another project recently, I stumbled across an online volume of a quarter...
Monday, July 28, 2014

The Wild West Show Came to Birmingham--Many Times!

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           For many years now the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus has appeared in Birmingham for a stand in late January. Tha...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Birmingham Photo of the Day (18): St. Vincent's Hospital in 1908

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This photo continues our series from the 1908 book Views of Birmingham .  Today the St. Vincent's Health System operates in several l...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Hillman Hospital & How It Became UAB Hospital

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The oldest building in the UAB Medical Center, now known as “Old Hillman”, is located on the block bounded by 19 th and 20 th Streets a...
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Monday, July 21, 2014

Alabama Book Spotlight: Starett by Arthur V. Deutcsh

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I'd like to begin this intermittent blog series with a book barely connected to Alabama, a novel by Arthur V. Deutcsh. He came to Birmin...
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