Saturday, March 23, 2024

Movies with Alabama Connections: Bright Road

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Mary Elizabeth Vroman came to be an "Alabama" author in a rather unusual way. She was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1924 [?], but...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Gadsden Postcard: Hotel Reich

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Gadsden's Hotel Reich , built by Adolphe "Popo" Reich, opened on February 12, 1930. The ten-story structure had 150 rooms and ...
Saturday, March 9, 2024

Ads in the Auburn Plainsman on February 7, 1945

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I was recently sifting through a box of old newspapers that came from my paternal grandparents' house in Gadsden. I've written about...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon Passed the Test

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I've written before on this blog about Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon, "the first certified, practicing female physician in Alabama"...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Zora Neale Hurston's Letter to William Stanley Hoole

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As one does now and then, I was recently glancing through Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters,  collected and edited by Carla Kaplan and p...
Saturday, February 17, 2024

Birmingham Photo (87): Rush Hotel in 1931

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According to its entry at the great BhamWiki site, this hotel was developed by D.M. Rush around 1919 and operated until about 1949. The 194...
Friday, February 9, 2024

Old Alabama Stuff : A Battle House Hotel Menu from 1857

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The Battle House Hotel in Mobile has a long and storied history . The facility originally opened in 1852, but that structure burned in 1905...