Thursday, June 9, 2016

The REAL First Movie World Premiere in Birmingham

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Well, maybe, at least until I find another one. In a recent blog post I discussed a film premier in Birmingham that was described as the ...
Monday, June 6, 2016

Finding Alabama in Oklahoma

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Recently Dianne and I helped our daughter Becca and son-in-law Matt move from Tuscaloosa to Edmond , Oklahoma, where he has accepted a fac...
Friday, June 3, 2016

That Night Movie Fans "Besieged" the Alabama Theater

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No, I'm not referring to a showing of  Gone with the Wind. That film first appeared in Birmingham on January 31, 1940, at the Ritz Theat...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Birmingham Photo of the Day (47): Ladies of the Club

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The photo below can be found in the digital collections of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. The description there reads, ...
Monday, May 23, 2016

"The Climax" at the Tivoli Theater in Montgomery in 1930

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I was looking for something else recently at the wonderful Alabama Mosaic site and stumbled across the advertisement below. The ad appeared...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

Pondering Alabama Maps (6): A 1913 Highway Proposal

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The main map below was developed in 1913 by the National Highways Association , a private organization founded two years earlier by business...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Alabama Natives on the Cover of TV Guide

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I stumbled into the TV Guide magazine cover archive again recently and decided to look for some Alabama natives who have made one or more ...