Tag: History
Welcome to Oz
Through a cutting-edge digital process, MB presents photographs of old Mobile as they’ve never been seen before — in vibrant color. original...
Dove Hunting
In Point Clear, the first sign that waterfront activities are over is the sound of doves cooing and fluttering in the tree limbs....
Ask McGehee
Between the years of 1910 and 1920, Mexico was embroiled in a civil war. In 1914, the United States sent a military...
The Chiquimula
ABOVE Watt’s grandfather, Hobart Key Jr., left this set of antique checkers along with...
Ask McGehee
In the late spring of 1914, a sign painter named Charles Ponzi arrived in Mobile aboard the steamer Tarpon. He had been working...
A Letter Home
William G. Caffey, a Mobilian stationed in Hawaii with the Army, wrote the following letter home a little more than a month...
Operation Ivory Soap
Learn about the secret World War II operation based at the Grand Hotel and the many aircraft — and lives — it saved in the Pacific.
Ask McGehee: What is the history of Constantine’s Restaurant?
Constantine Panayiotou was a Greek immigrant who had come to Chicago in 1913 where he started out as a dishwasher and learned the restaurant...
The Pirate Navigator
On the cusp of the 18th century, great changes were underway in the Gulf of Mexico. Spain’s almost two-centuries-long grip on the region...
The Goober Pea
In Mobile, peanuts seem to always come in tiny brown paper bags: hurled off a Mardi Gras float from the arm of a...