The Morris was one of the forerunners to the Hillman - may be a relation thee with her name being MORRIS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Hughes" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports | Could it have been the Morris hotel. This hotel was an old one that was | standing in the late 40s. Ann | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=205+North+24th+Street,+Birmingham,+AL go to these and then click on each of the maps and see what was or is there ----- Original Message ----- From: "Melba Clark" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports | There are sections of the city directories for Birmingham which are arranged | by street address. One could look for the address in the 1945 directory | and probably find the name of the hotel. The Birmingham Public Library has | directories, as well as Wallace State College Library. | | The Birmingham Public Library has microfilm of newspapers of that time | period. | Melba Clark | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "deb & jim" <[email protected]> | To: <[email protected]> | Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:29 PM | Subject: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports | | | > Researching the following family names: TYLER/MORRIS/TIDWELL | > | > | > My grandmother, Queenie Morris, died on September 12, 1945 after a fall | > from a window of a hotel located at 205 N. 24 Street in Birmingham. Was | > that the Hillman Hotel? She passed away at the Hillman Hospital, was | > buried at Mt Hope Cemetery, Brown-Service was the funeral home. Would | > anyone have access to any news stories that may have appeared at that time | > in any local newspapers? Or maybe even an obit? | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
yes there is a Tutwiler Hotel, close to the courthouse - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl & Martha Thomas" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports | At 04:05 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote: | | >It could have been the Tutweiler (sp?) | | Don't think so. The Tutwiler was THE very elegant hotel in the | center of down town Birmingham ... somewhere on 20th Street I think | ... perhaps 3rd or 4th Avenue north. | | I believe that the original building is still there, but don't know | if it's still used as a hotel, or by the same name. | | Carl, in Knoxville, Tennessee | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
I so wish that someone could remember any of my ancestors who lived in the area - they are Tyler/Morris/Tidwell - The people on this list are amazing; i got more ideas and new sources today than i have in the last three years of research! thanks again! ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Old B'ham > > In a message dated 10/19/2006 6:40:15 AM Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > There's a > lot of "family history" tied up in the places we've talked about. > > > > For example, if someone was looking for info on the Lowe family of > Birmingham, I could tell them that one line of Lowe's owned the skating > rink that many > of us have fond memories of and that they lived in the Fair Oaks Section > of > Bham, in Fairfield, actually and that Lucky Lowe was a famous water > skier. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
At 05:40 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote: >yes or they were called trolleys - Carl, you the expert on this. There is a >photo of "Passengers in the late 1940's get off and on an East Lake Trolley >from a raised platform in the middle of Twentitieth Street" > >This book was one of a series published a publishing co in Miami, FL., on >several of the larger cities, Dr McMillan was from Auburn, he was a pro at >AU and also a patient of the doctor I worked for. Since it is listed in the >Library of Congress, you may can see some of the photos by just putting in >Malcolm Cook McMillan - the ISBN is 0-912458-40-2. >I know that my children's grandfather was part of the HABS project and took >many photographs over Alabama and the LOC said I could print them out from >my computerm this was a WPA project. My father worked for the old BRL&P {Birmingham Railway Light & Power Co} from the end of WW I until his death in 1945. Initially he was a trolley conductor {collected the money and tickets} but later became a "dispatcher" responsible for keeping the trolleys and buses running on schedule. The BRL&P was the predecessor of the Birmingham Electric Company, the Birmingham Transit Company, and whatever the current public transportation system is named. Before the electric trolleys came into use, there was a mule drawn rail car that ran from the down town business section, southward along 20th street, then up the steep hillside to Five Points South. That was the end of the line and the turn around location. I have a very old photo of that mule drawn rail car. Will be happy to share that and other old Birmingham area photos if someone can tell me how to post photos ..... I don't think that it's appropriate to "attach" them to regular notes such as this one ? Carl, in Knoxville, Tennessee
At 05:26 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote: >someplace they had a dividing line between the south streets and the north >streets, the 18th St S and 21st Ave are around the UAB Medical Center, the >north is mor around the city proper. The dividing line was Morris Avenue, which ran east-west, between 1st avenue north and 1st avenue south. In the down town area, the avenues ran generally east-west and the streets north-south. In the old days, most of the business section was north of Morris Avenue. The old Hillman Hospital {still in use} and now the UAB Medical Center were on the south side of down town, before one starts up the hilly side of Red Mountain. Carl in Knoxville, Tennessee
The Hillman Hotel was located 312-322 North 19th Street IAW picture located in Birmingham Public Library, at web site _www.bploonline.cdmhost.com_ (http://www.bploonline.cdmhost.com) Best Wishes Joe
you better believe it, who were your neighbors and what was your parents names and where did they work and when were they born and when were you born and maybe one of your cousins is somebody else's 'lost relative'. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Roberts" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] The Lake by Lakeshore Drive |I grew up on the south end of Jefferson county myself....is that important? | | Carl & Martha Thomas wrote: | | >At 03:37 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote: | > | > | >>I may be older than dirt too, but my mother told many tales about the | >>lake that was beside Lakeshore Drive in what is now Homewood. I don't | >>remember the actual name of it, but I do know that all that area across | >> | >> | >>from Samford formed a lake. The streetcar went out there from town and | > | > | >>it was sort of a resort. I think the library has some pictures of it | >>online. She talked about going out there to swim on the streetcar as a | >>young person. Later she and my father moved to Homewood rather near the | >>lake. I'd like to know when it was drained. Interestingly my mother's | >>sister recently lived in a townhouse which is on what was the bed of | >>the lake (as I understand it's position). | >> | >> | > | >I grew up in Birmingham. My recollection is that the lake was | >Edgewood Lake ... but as with the Hillman Hotel query, I might have | >that wrong. Perhaps others can confirm or correct. | > | >Yes, the Samford University campus is across from the old lake | >location. Originally Samford was known as Howard | >College, and the old original campus was out in an East Lake | >location. The old Howard College {Hard College} and the newer | >Samford University are Baptist affiliated. Also, Samford has very | >good genealogy resources .... probably related to their library in some way. | > | >I have a number of very old photos from ca. 1920 of BRL&P employees | >at the lake on picnics and swimming parties. My mother was one of | >them. Would be happy to share those photos, but I don't know how to | >post them to rootsweb anywhere, and I think they are not accepted | >as attachments to notes such as this. | > | >Carl, in Knoxville, Tennessee | > | > | >------------------------------- | >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message | > | > | > | | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
James, I happen to be the one who sent the original e-mail to the list about the newspaper article and asked the question if anyone knew where Cascade Plunge was? That's when the reminiscing started......and personally I kind of like it. I just checked PasswardCentral to see that I am on 40 rootsweb mailing list. Some are almost non-existence, never having anything come across the list, and others, like this one will hit on a topic and flow like water in a full mountain stream. If you think you are raining on everyone's parade, you are simply adding to the flow. If I didn't like the e-mails I would be scrolling down my list putting a check beside the ones that don't interest me and hitting 'delete', INSTEAD of hitting 'respond' to each and every one of them and getting DOUBLEs back! Jim, My 1st cousin once removed sent me the info on which theater (Capital) it was that his dad Cary Carniff Gore used to paint the posters at. He said he had an Exit sign from it! I e-mailed him back and asked him if he knew the location. I'll let you know what he says ASAP. I have at least one picture somewhere of one of his posters. If you are interested I'll try to find it. It's probably on my old desk top. Thanks for the lovely e-mails. Everyone else, :-) Thanks for all the lovely e-mails. I enjoy reading them all. It makes me feel almost like I am there. Kay __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
yes or they were called trolleys - Carl, you the expert on this. There is a photo of "Passengers in the late 1940's get off and on an East Lake Trolley from a raised platform in the middle of Twentitieth Street" This book was one of a series published a publishing co in Miami, FL., on several of the larger cities, Dr McMillan was from Auburn, he was a pro at AU and also a patient of the doctor I worked for. Since it is listed in the Library of Congress, you may can see some of the photos by just putting in Malcolm Cook McMillan - the ISBN is 0-912458-40-2. I know that my children's grandfather was part of the HABS project and took many photographs over Alabama and the LOC said I could print them out from my computerm this was a WPA project. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Roberts" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports | Did they use to have streetcars in Birmingham? | | JC wrote: | | >My GreatUncle ran the old Hillman when it was on its last leg, Middle 50's | >. If memory serves it was between 3rd and 4th avenue and about 23 and 24th | >st. north. | >I have been away a long time but I think thats right. The location the lady | >talked about may have been the old YWCA. | >jc harris | >----- Original Message ----- | >From: "Carl & Martha Thomas" <[email protected]> | >To: <[email protected]> | >Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:38 PM | >Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports | > | > | > | > | >>At 02:29 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote: | >> | >> | >>>My grandmother, Queenie Morris, died on September 12, 1945 after a | >>>fall from a window of a hotel located at 205 N. 24 Street in | >>>Birmingham. Was that the Hillman Hotel? | >>> | >>> | >>I don't think it was the Hillman Hotel, unless my old brain is failing. | >> | >>To the best of my recollection, the Hillman Hotel burned to the | >>ground some time in the thirties. | >> | >>There was another hotel located very near the offices of the | >>Birmingham News newspaper, and the above address might fit that one | >>better. If so, perhaps an inquiry sent to the archives of the | >>Birmingham News might be helpful. | >> | >>Carl in Knoxville, Tennessee | >> | >> | >>------------------------------- | >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to | >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the | >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message | >> | >> | >> | > | >------------------------------- | >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message | > | > | > | | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
The Morris Hotel is also mentioned in the aforementioned book, photo in 1910. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports | The Hillman Hotel was located at 312-322 North 19th Street. Go to | | _www.bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php_ | (http://www.bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php) ? | | Best Wishes Joe | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
i remember my dad telling me about how the miners were paid and they had to use it at the "company store"...... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Delilah" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports > try Tennessee Coal and Iron - still exists > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "deb & jim" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:16 PM > Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports > > > | Looking at his WWI Draft registration, Oather Tyler worked for TC&I in > 1917 > | or 1918; i think i've "googled" this query but haven't been able to dig > | far....... > | any ideas? > | ----- Original Message ----- > | From: "Carl & Martha Thomas" <[email protected]> > | To: <[email protected]> > | Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:55 PM > | Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports > | > | > | > At 05:40 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote: > | >>yes or they were called trolleys - Carl, you the expert on this. There > is > | >>a > | >>photo of "Passengers in the late 1940's get off and on an East Lake > | >>Trolley > | >>from a raised platform in the middle of Twentitieth Street" > | >> > | >>This book was one of a series published a publishing co in Miami, > FL., > on > | >>several of the larger cities, Dr McMillan was from Auburn, he was a > pro > at > | >>AU and also a patient of the doctor I worked for. Since it is listed > in > | >>the > | >>Library of Congress, you may can see some of the photos by just > putting > in > | >>Malcolm Cook McMillan - the ISBN is 0-912458-40-2. > | >>I know that my children's grandfather was part of the HABS project and > | >>took > | >>many photographs over Alabama and the LOC said I could print them out > from > | >>my computerm this was a WPA project. > | > > | > My father worked for the old BRL&P {Birmingham Railway Light & Power > | > Co} from the end of WW I until his death in 1945. Initially he was a > | > trolley conductor {collected the money and tickets} but later became > | > a "dispatcher" responsible for keeping the trolleys and buses running > | > on schedule. > | > > | > The BRL&P was the predecessor of the Birmingham Electric Company, the > | > Birmingham Transit Company, and whatever the current public > | > transportation system is named. > | > > | > Before the electric trolleys came into use, there was a mule drawn > | > rail car that ran from the down town business section, southward > | > along 20th street, then up the steep hillside to Five Points > | > South. That was the end of the line and the turn around location. > | > > | > I have a very old photo of that mule drawn rail car. Will be happy > | > to share that and other old Birmingham area photos if someone can > | > tell me how to post photos ..... I don't think that it's appropriate > | > to "attach" them to regular notes such as this one ? > | > > | > Carl, in Knoxville, Tennessee > | > > | > > | > ------------------------------- > | > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > | > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > | > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > | > > | > | > | ------------------------------- > | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
someplace they had a dividing line between the south streets and the north streets, the 18th St S and 21st Ave are around the UAB Medical Center, the north is mor around the city proper. ----- Original Message ----- From: "JC" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:38 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports | That is correct, I was incorrect about that. I am still looking for the name | of the hotel between 3rd and fourth and about 23rd and 24th north. | Thank you, jc harris | ----- Original Message ----- | From: <[email protected]> | To: <[email protected]> | Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:25 PM | Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports | | | > The Hillman Hotel was located at 312-322 North 19th Street. Go to | > | > _www.bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php_ | > (http://www.bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php) ? | > | > Best Wishes Joe | > | > ------------------------------- | > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to | > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the | > quotes in the subject and the body of the message | > | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
In the book "Birmingham" by Malcolm McMillan, states that "The Hillman Hotel in 1910 was the successor to the Caldwell and then the Morris as Birmingham's finest hotel...." So apparently there was a Morris Hotel and the Hillman Clinic was closer to what is now the UAB School of Medicine, the original front of the Hillman Hospital is still there but is built into the rest of the medical hospital building. Also in this book is a photo of two men: Marine Pfc Arthur GAGNON and phamarcist mate Henry Bradley, two of the three surviving Iwo Jima heroes "who raised the flag over Iwo Jima". "They pose before Joe Rosenthal's famed photograph of that event in Birmingham in June 1945, where they were selling bonds with 'the tattered flag' from Iwo Jima on Display." If anyone is related to either of these two men, be glad to send you a copy of the photo, they probably are deceased by now. Also for all you 'Bama' fans,I have a 1925/26 football program guide with photos of the team members and the coaches and some advertisements, if you are interested in a copy of any part. It is not like the programs you get today, more advertisement and statistics. My daddy never gave anything away and now I sort thru stuff and wish I wasn't older "than dirt" and was standing on a beach holding my daddy's hand." I sure would feel safer than now. I will post the MISSILDINE obit to the list. delilah evans ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports | The Hillman Hotel was located at 312-322 North 19th Street. Go to | | _www.bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php_ | (http://www.bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php) ? | | Best Wishes Joe | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
At 04:33 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote: >I'm gald you do because I'm going to get into this full blast >myself....enjoy! Re. "old Birmingham" and the reference to "blast" above. Just to the east side of the downtown business section of Birmingham, there was a long viaduct running east to west on First Avenue. On the southern side of that viaduct were the old Sloss Furnaces, which produced "pig iron" from coke, lime, and iron ore .... all three of these being abundant locally in the old days. The old Sloss Furnaces are still there, although not in active use. Instead the site is some kind of historical "museum." More details are available for those interested in old history of that kind at.... http://www.slossfurnaces.com/media/html/home/sloss_story.php On the northern side of the viaduct {until almost the start of WW II} there was a large barn or warehouse structure which house a "mule dealership." Also very close into that area there also was an old fashioned and true "farmer's market" where farmers came on the week ends to sell their produce from small trucks and wagons. Families slept in or around their vehicles. As a child in the early thirties during the depression years, I can remember my parents buying string beans at a penny per pound, if you bought at least ten pounds and brought your own sack or basket. Carl, in Knoxville, Tennessee
In a message dated 10/19/2006 3:44:26 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I am still looking for the name of the hotel between 3rd and fourth and about 23rd and 24th north. Thank you, jc harris Could it have been the Bankhead Hotel? I think the Bankhead was located about 23rd Street North and Fifth Avenue. Pat
You betcha! But the ice tea does sound good! By the way, I believe the correct way to unsubscribe is to send an e-mail to the list administrator at: [email protected], with just the word "unsubscribe" in the subject and in the body of the message part (with no quotation marks, of course) and nothing else - no other words needed! > So start deleting my replies...... > > Carolyn Sue Howard wrote: > >>There's always the delete button! Especially if you notice the subject. >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "James Roberts" <[email protected]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:58 AM >>Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Old B'ham >> >> >> >> >>>I have sent 3 emails to [email protected] trying to >>>unsubscribe, but still continue to get mail from this list. Nostalgia is >>>good, but it is not appropriate when it is flooding other list members >>>mailbox. I can tell my grandchildren about those places off list which >>>would be a little more appropriate. I'll just go to my gmail account >>>settings and place a spam filter there to stop mail from this list. >>> >>>Jim Nix wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Forgive some of us oldsters as we indulge in a bit of nostalgia. >>>>There's >>>>a >>>>lot of "family history" tied up in the places we've talked about. >>>> >>>>These are the stories that we tell our grandchildren. It'll definitely >>>>be >>>>"family history" to them. >>>> >>>>Jim >>>> >>>>P.S. Pasquale's Stromboli Sandwich was always my favorite, too..... >>>> >>>>----- Original Message ----- >>>>From: "James Roberts" <[email protected]> >>>>To: <[email protected]> >>>>Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:35 AM >>>>Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Old B'ham >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Is this no longer a genealogy site? >>>>> >>>>>caroline wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>There is at least 1 Pasquales left - on Old Springville Road almost to >>>>>>Clay >>>>>>in a Publix Shopping Center. Our daughter lived a mile from there >>>>>>until >>>>>>this past June. Every time I went to see her I "went back in time" >>>>>>with >>>>>>one >>>>>>of those roast beef sandwiches with gravy on that garlic bread. >>>>>>That's >>>>>>the >>>>>>only reason I was sorry she moved to Calera! >>>>>>Caroline, Prattville >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>ABSOLUTELY! Skated many an hour at Lowes and drank many a chocolate >>>>>>>shake >>>>>>>at the Spinning Wheel and ate many a pizza at Pasquales. No one >>>>>>>makes >>>>>>>them >>>>>>>like Pasquales did back then. And their garlic bread...to die for. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>------------------------------- >>>>>>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>>>>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>>>>quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>------------------------------- >>>>>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>>>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>>>quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>------------------------------- >>>>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>>quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>------------------------------- >>>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Carl, i'm at the Library of Congress website, entered the ISBN number and there are bunches of entries; any way to determine which have photos? thank you! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl & Martha Thomas" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Birmingham circa 1945 looking for news reports > At 05:40 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote: >>yes or they were called trolleys - Carl, you the expert on this. There is >>a >>photo of "Passengers in the late 1940's get off and on an East Lake >>Trolley >>from a raised platform in the middle of Twentitieth Street" >> >>This book was one of a series published a publishing co in Miami, FL., on >>several of the larger cities, Dr McMillan was from Auburn, he was a pro at >>AU and also a patient of the doctor I worked for. Since it is listed in >>the >>Library of Congress, you may can see some of the photos by just putting in >>Malcolm Cook McMillan - the ISBN is 0-912458-40-2. >>I know that my children's grandfather was part of the HABS project and >>took >>many photographs over Alabama and the LOC said I could print them out from >>my computerm this was a WPA project. > > My father worked for the old BRL&P {Birmingham Railway Light & Power > Co} from the end of WW I until his death in 1945. Initially he was a > trolley conductor {collected the money and tickets} but later became > a "dispatcher" responsible for keeping the trolleys and buses running > on schedule. > > The BRL&P was the predecessor of the Birmingham Electric Company, the > Birmingham Transit Company, and whatever the current public > transportation system is named. > > Before the electric trolleys came into use, there was a mule drawn > rail car that ran from the down town business section, southward > along 20th street, then up the steep hillside to Five Points > South. That was the end of the line and the turn around location. > > I have a very old photo of that mule drawn rail car. Will be happy > to share that and other old Birmingham area photos if someone can > tell me how to post photos ..... I don't think that it's appropriate > to "attach" them to regular notes such as this one ? > > Carl, in Knoxville, Tennessee > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
At 04:05 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote: >It could have been the Tutweiler (sp?) Don't think so. The Tutwiler was THE very elegant hotel in the center of down town Birmingham ... somewhere on 20th Street I think ... perhaps 3rd or 4th Avenue north. I believe that the original building is still there, but don't know if it's still used as a hotel, or by the same name. Carl, in Knoxville, Tennessee