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Bathing Beauties, 1923
Beauty pageant contestants relax on the sands of the Gulf Coast. original photo from the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library,...
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“Mobile’s Finest Department Store” thrived in a building that previously housed the largest laundry and dye...
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Eugenia Levy Phillips, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, came to Mobile as a 16-year-old newlywed in 1836. She had married...
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The Chinese filling station, which stood on the northwest corner of Government and Dearborn streets, was the creation of architect C....
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Ask McGehee: What is the story behind that Egyptian temple downtown?
What Mobilians have most recently called “The Temple Downtown” is currently an event venue but was created as Mobile’s Scottish Rite Cathedral, ...
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Boogie on the Bay
Cicero, the Roman author and philosopher (106 - 43 B.C) noted: “No sober person dances.” Cicero would have been right at...
The Aviators
Even before the Wright Brothers flew a powered heavier-than-air machine at Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1903, John Fowler (1862 -...
Mobile Spirits
Mobile has been many things to many people, but never a hotbed of temperance. In Colonial times, the home brew of choice was often...
Life Aquatic
Dip into Mobile’s favorite water spots of the past.
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The Family Business
CorteLoyal to the LandFred Corte keeps busy farming these days, despite saying once that he had plans to retire. The Corte family legacy...