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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: Joseph W. Lewis Jr. M.D. Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1665503394 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 243
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Amazing Alabama: A Potpourri of Fascinating Facts, Tall Tales and Storied Stories chronicles a brief history of the state, famous personages associated with Alabama, a discussion of state firsts, unique occurrences, antiquated laws and other fascinating topics.
Author: Emily Brown Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1625853467 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 160
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Birmingham began as a boomtown filled with immigrants who held on to the best recipes from their homelands. More recently, locals like Frank Stitt and Carole Griffin helped transform the modern southern city into a foodie destination with the best of national trends. Andrew Zimmern visited with his show Bizarre Foods America to tout one of the city's most popular food trucks, Shindigs. Fast casual dining is done with care, and gems like Trattoria Centrale and Bettola are dedicated to local ingredients. Join food writer and restaurant enthusiast Emily Brown as she details the delectable history of food in the Magic City.
Author: Andre Millard Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0819576999 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 377
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This exploration of rock 'n' roll music and culture in Birmingham, Alabama, is based on the oral histories of musicians, their fans and professionals in the popular music industry. Collected over a twenty-year period, their stories describe the coming of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, the rise of the garage bands in the 1960s, of southern rock in the 1970s, and of alternative music in the 1980s and 1990s. Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Magic City Nights provides an insider's view of the dramatic changes in the business and status of popular music from the era of the vacuum tube to twenty-first-century digital technology. These collective memories offer a unique perspective on the impact of a subversive and racially integrated music culture in one of the most conservative and racially divided cities in the country.
Author: Beverly Crider Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 162584056X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 160
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Some of Birmingham Alabama's history has been lost. This book takes a look at this lost history and brings it back to life. Birmingham has many notable historic landmarks today, but so many more are all but forgotten. The Bangor Cave Casino was once a world-renowned speakeasy. The Thomas Jefferson Hotel featured a zeppelin mooring station, drawing lots of attention from tourists. Other significant sites from the past, such as Hillman Hospital and the buildings on the "Heaviest Corner on Earth," are unknown even to natives now. Local author Beverly Crider presents an intriguing and educational tour through these and more hidden treasures.
Author: Burgin Mathews Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 353
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Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of a distinctive and influential jazz heritage. In a telling replete with colorful characters, iconic artists, and unheralded masters, Burgin Mathews reveals how Birmingham was the cradle and training ground for such luminaries as big band leader Erskine Hawkins, cosmic outsider Sun Ra, and a long list of sidemen, soloists, and arrangers. He also celebrates the contributions of local educators, club owners, and civic leaders who nurtured a vital culture of Black expression in one of the country's most notoriously segregated cities. In Birmingham, jazz was more than entertainment: long before the city emerged as a focal point in the national civil rights movement, its homegrown jazz heroes helped set the stage, crafting a unique tradition of independence, innovation, achievement, and empowerment. Blending deep archival research and original interviews with living elders of the Birmingham scene, Mathews elevates the stories of figures like John T. "Fess" Whatley, the pioneering teacher-bandleader who emphasized instrumental training as a means of upward mobility and community pride. Along the way, he takes readers into the high school band rooms, fraternal ballrooms, vaudeville houses, and circus tent shows that shaped a musical movement, revealing a community of players whose influence spread throughout the world.
Author: Blake Ells Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439669678 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 105
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Birmingham's rock music scene has thrived on camaraderie and collaboration for decades. With no competitiveness, it has maintained a punk rock ethos while also appealing to a mainstream audience, thanks to DIY clubs and alternative radio support. Once one of the country's most successful AAA radio stations, 107.7 The X and the A&R power of station head Scott Register provided the early radio success that helped break Train, Matchbox Twenty and John Mayer. The same scene produced Jim Bob & the Leisure Suits, the Primitons, the Sugar La Las and Verbena. From local legends like Hotel and Telluride to national sensation St. Paul and the Broken Bones, writer Blake Ells tells the story of the Magic City's indelible stamp on the history of modern rock.
Author: Larry Colton Publisher: Grand Central Publishing ISBN: 1455511870 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 324
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Bestselling and award-winning author and former major league pitcher Larry Colton shares the story of the Birmingham Barons, the first racially-integrated team of any sport in the state of Alabama, just few months after the horrific 1964 Birmingham church bombing which killed four young black girls. Anybody who is familiar with the Civil Rights movement knows that 1964 was a pivotal year. And in Birmingham, Alabama - perhaps the epicenter of racial conflict - the Barons amazingly started their season with an integrated team. Johnny "Blue Moon" Odom, a talented pitcher and Tommie Reynolds, an outfielder - both young black ballplayers with dreams of playing someday in the big leagues, along with Bert Campaneris, a dark-skinned shortstop from Cuba, all found themselves in this simmering cauldron of a minor league town, all playing for Heywood Sullivan, a white former major leaguer who grew up just down the road in Dothan, Alabama. Colton traces the entire season, writing about the extraordinary relationships among these players with Sullivan, and Colton tells their story by capturing the essence of Birmingham and its citizens during this tumultuous year. (The infamous Bull Connor, for example, when not ordering blacks to be blasted by powerful water hoses, is a fervent follower of the Barons and served as a long-time broadcaster of their games.) By all accounts, the racial jeers and taunts that rained down upon these Birmingham players were much worse than anything that Jackie Robinson ever endured. More than a story about baseball, this is a true accounting of life in a different time and clearly a different place. Seventeen years after Jackie Robinson had broken the color line in the major leagues, Birmingham was exploding in race riots....and now, they were going to have their very first integrated sports team. This is a story that has never been told.
Author: Renneker F. W. Renneker Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1440174571 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 314
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Julian Blushingame admits he has a problem. For many months, he has spent enormous amounts of time in Birmingham's crack whoredom. Julian loves it, loathes it, cherishes it, fondles it, and regrets it. Between jaunts, he manages to fulfill the simple responsibilities of his easy job and live not so differently from any other late twenty-something. He stumbled into this obsession while researching the history of a Birmingham, Alabama, public housing community from the middle of the twentieth century. While Julian does his best to complete his historical research, he can think only about the women he sees everyday walking the sidewalks of the city. Not only does he become deeply infatuated with one streetwalker, he eventually becomes the most pathetic pervert a daytime regular at a third-rate strip joint. But Julian's addiction may cost him his life. An unlucky witness to the killing of a streetwalker, he's been kidnapped by two violent and angry men and is held captive. He doesn't know if his captors plan to release him or if they will kill him.
Author: Victoria Myers
Author: Victoria Myers
Author: Joseph W. Lewis Jr. M.D.
Author: Emily Brown
Author: Andre Millard
Author: Beverly Crider
Author: Burgin Mathews
Author: Blake Ells
Author: Larry Colton
Author: Margo Bartlett
Author: Renneker F. W. Renneker