Tag: History
Explore the History of Clay City Tile
The orange-red tiles stand out on structures across Baldwin County. Their history is just as colorful.
Special Delivery, 1919
Hammel’s airborne shipping strategy
Ask McGehee
Was a Mobile bookstore closed for selling a copy of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?
Judge Roy Bean
Locals gather to reminisce about the beloved Daphne watering hole, with its bushwackers, great live music and a goat named Billy. Founder Jack West would be proud.
Ask McGehee
When was Mobile’s airport downtown?
National Geographic Revisited
MB looks back at a 50-year-old feature story about our fair city. “Mobile, Alabama’s city in motion”
Ambulance at Bienville, circa 1906
Horses once pulled Mobile’s emergency vehicles.
Funny Mobile Customs
Writer Frances Beverly documents some of historic Mobile’s most bizarre practices.
You Deserve a Break Today
Jack Edwards, representative for Alabama’s First Congressional District from 1965 to 1985, reminisces about President Ronald Reagan and the motorcade detour heard ‘round Huntsville.
Mobile Backyards of Old
Reflecting on her backyard and the young children who terrorized it, Frances Beverly reminisces about the fenced-off yards of her childhood.