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, &q...
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 ...