The Bay Area’s Architectural Gems
Mobile boasts almost two centuries of stellar architecture. MB asked some of the Bay area’s top architects and designers to single out their picks for standout structural design.
Crash Curiosity, 1915
The unusual sight of a car accident captures attention in 1915.
Ask McGehee
What is the history of the clock on the corner of Royal and Dauphin streets?
Jean Laffite’s Mobile
A reformed pirate struggles to make a respectable business deal in early 1800s Mobile.
Young Oyster Tongers, 1911
A supposed 14-year-old digs for oysters in the Bay.
A Mobile Classic Turns 70
“Remember Mobile” — a romantic, affectionate look at our past in prose and drawings — is a book still worth remembering.
Night Fishing
A poignant coming-of-age story reflects life on the Bay.
Ask McGehee
What’s the history of the building on Broad Street that once housed the Red Cross?
Mobile’s Borrowing Habit
Writer Frances Beverly recounts some of the most egregious borrowers of 19th-century Mobile.
The President is on the Line
Jack Edwards, representative for Alabama’s First Congressional District from 1965 to 1985, relates two stories that bookend his political career.
