Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Quick Visit to a North Alabama Town: Joppa

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I visit mom, watercolor artist Carolyn Shores Wright , in Huntsville on a regular basis. On the drive to and from Pelham I often make brief ...
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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Mobile and "Blues in the Night"

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I am always on the lookout for appearances of Alabama-related things in popular culture and came across this one recently. Over the life of ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Birmingham Photo of the Day (60): Hormel Meat Packing Plant

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Wander around Alabama Mosaic, and you never know what you may find. Case in point is the photograph below, taken by Oscar V. Hunt [1881-19...
Friday, October 6, 2017

Old Alabama Stuff (15): A 1903 Souvenir of Birmingham, pt. 2

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This post is part 2 of my exploration of Souvenir of Birmingham, Ala. published in the city in 1903. I've looked at some of the photos ...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Old Alabama Stuff (14): A 1903 Souvenir of Birmingham, pt. 1

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In 1903 a publication appeared entitled Souvenir of Birmingham, Ala . This book consists of a number of photographs and several pages of t...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

What Happened to Old Tuskaloosa Road?

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Here's another bit of history I've passed many times over the years but only recently noticed--this street sign in Pelham announcing...
Friday, September 22, 2017

"Alabama Slide" A Fox Trot

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In a recent blog post , I discussed a 1925 recording by Fred Hamm & His Orchestra of the "shimmy fox trot", "Flag that Tr...