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Author: Victoria Myers Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1625842724 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 160
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Though the landscape has certainly changed, many of Birminghams early landmarkstestaments to the steelworkers who built the city after the Civil War, as well as those who have since prospered hereremain. In Birmingham Landmarks, Alabama native Victoria Myers explores the Magic Citys most prominent industrial and cultural features. Step back in time to discover Rickwood Field, one of Americas oldest baseball parks, and the Carver Theater, the only venue that allowed African Americans to view first-run movies before the civil rights movement. Find out why Birmingham is known as the Pittsburgh of the South at Sloss Furnaces and learn the secrets of Vulcan, who was commissioned for the 1904 Worlds Fair and has become one of the states most recognizable monuments.
Author: Victoria Myers Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1625842724 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
Though the landscape has certainly changed, many of Birminghams early landmarkstestaments to the steelworkers who built the city after the Civil War, as well as those who have since prospered hereremain. In Birmingham Landmarks, Alabama native Victoria Myers explores the Magic Citys most prominent industrial and cultural features. Step back in time to discover Rickwood Field, one of Americas oldest baseball parks, and the Carver Theater, the only venue that allowed African Americans to view first-run movies before the civil rights movement. Find out why Birmingham is known as the Pittsburgh of the South at Sloss Furnaces and learn the secrets of Vulcan, who was commissioned for the 1904 Worlds Fair and has become one of the states most recognizable monuments.
Author: Victoria G. Myers Publisher: Landmarks ISBN: 9781596297388 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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Though the landscape has certainly changed, many of Birmingham's early landmarks--testaments to the steelworkers who built the city after the Civil War, as well as those who have since prospered here--remain. In Birmingham Landmarks, Alabama native Victoria Myers explores the Magic City's most prominent industrial and cultural features. Step back in time to discover Rickwood Field, one of America's oldest baseball parks, and the Carver Theater, the only venue that allowed African Americans to view first-run movies before the civil rights movement. Find out why Birmingham is known as the Pittsburgh of the South at Sloss Furnaces and learn the secrets of Vulcan, who was commissioned for the 1904 World's Fair and has become one of the state's most recognizable monuments.
Author: Tim Hollis Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1625846975 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 154
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The bright lights of Birmingham's theater and retail district have shone over the Magic City for nearly one hundred years during the good times and the bad. During the early 1900s, small businesses, largely founded by immigrants who arrived in Birmingham with almost nothing, exploded into immensely popular shopping and entertainment destinations. The stories of entrepreneurs and immigrants like Louis Pizitz and his business rival, Adolph Loveman, exemplify the kind of rags-to-riches tales that make up much of the city's character. The theaters in the district, some with themed restrooms, inspired the head of Paramount Pictures to dub Birmingham's Alabama Theatre the "Showplace of the South." Author Tim Hollis celebrates and revives the spirit of the beloved department stores and famous theaters from the era of silent movies to the days of integration and change to today.
Author: Jefferson County Historical Commission Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738587301 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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From its founding as a steel-making area that rivaled any in the world for quality and quantity, to its present-day role as a leading banking, retail, and medical center for the New South, the rolling, iron-rich land of Jefferson County has been well represented in picture postcards. Roving photographers and those from local studios captured scenes of civic, business, and private life, and made them into postcards that were sent around the world. Birmingham and Jefferson County, Alabama takes the reader on a visual tour of such landmarks as the Tutwiler Hotel, the Empire Building, Rickwood Field, Legion Field, Arlington, and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Explore the beginnings of world-class medical facilities, the rise of the iron and steel industry, and the rich cultural heritage that the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Italians, Greeks, and other ethnic groups brought to the area.
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company ISBN: 1618583859 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 252
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Between 1950 and 1979, Birmingham, Alabama, experienced some of the most dramatic growth and change in its history. Booming suburbs, desegregation, the fall of steel and the rise of medical and educational research, a new emphasis on the fine arts, and other changes imparted to Birmingham a radical new look over that thirty-year period. Historic Photos of Birmingham in the 50s, 60s, and 70s highlights the changes that took place through pictures of busy shoppers, amusing advertising ploys, eager audiences, cultural achievements, towering buildings, influential citizens, new institutions, famous actors, and violent protests and demonstrations. Nearly 200 photographs, vividly reproduced in black-and-white with captions and introductions, give a clear idea of what the Birmingham landscape and environment was like during these years. This look back is the perfect reminiscence for those who remember the era and an ideal resource for those new to the city who may not.
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