Ask McGehee: What is the history of Mobile’s Admiral Hotel?
The 12-story hotel was opened in November 1940, and named in honor of Mobile’s Admiral Raphael Semmes. It had been constructed over a course of 15 months at a total cost of $1 million — well over $21 million in today’s dollars.
The USO in Mobile
Turn back time with this 1940’s photograph from the Mobile chapter of USO
The Nevis Affair
The Caribbean scandal that exposed the extensive corruption of Mobile’s founder.
Mobile’s Colonial Foodways
How six cultures influenced Mobile’s culinary traditions, shaping the unique cuisine we enjoy today.
All Hail the Meat and Three
Deeply traditional and delightfully calorific, the meat and three reflects the resourcefulness and creativity of Southern cooks during hard times.
Madame Octavia LeVert’s Salon of the South
The rise and fall of a Mobile icon.
“911 Dauphin Street”
The search to uncover her great-grandmother’s past led
Rhoda Melendez to uncover the history of the Protestant Orphans’ Asylum in Mobile and ignited her first novel.
American Laundry Company
Turn back time with this early 1900s photograph of a laundry service that once operated in downtown Mobile.
Ask McGehee: What was the Zimmer Memorial Home?
In October of 1923, Catholic Bishop Edward Patrick Allen dedicated the Zimmer Memorial Institute at 2567 St. Stephens Road in Toulminville.
Last Man on State Street
The Search for Mobile’s Pipe-Smoking Sea Captain
