Thursday, August 28, 2014

Sallie Howard Memorial Baptist Chapel near Fort Payne

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On our trip to the Fort Payne area in October 2012, wife Dianne and I visited this unusual chapel just outside DeSoto State Park. You can se...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Cut! Movies & TV Shows Set in Birmingham

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            Recently that gushing fountain of interesting stuff, the io9.com site, ran a piece on “the most popular television show set in...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Birmingham Photo of the Day (20): Powell School

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Here is another photograph from the 1908 book Views of Birmingham. Today Powell School is a burned-out structure that came close to being ...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Pelham Reaches Fifty

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       Most of us probably associate Pelham only with recent history. After all, Pelham was not incorporated until 1964, when the populati...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Birmingham's National Dope Company & Other Early Soft Drink Bottlers

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In the first half of the 20 th century Birmingham was home to several soft drink companies bottling such exotic drinks as Gay-Ola, Rye-Ol...
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Monday, August 11, 2014

Pondering an Alabama Map (2): Pelham in 1926

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Our map this time is a 1926 road map of Shelby County. I found this map in UA's Historical Maps Collection among various maps of the co...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

A Quick Visit to Bryce Hospital

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In May 2008 my wife Dianne, son Amos, daughter Becca and her husband Matt Leon attended a Shores family reunion in Tuscaloosa. Before we lef...