Memories of Downtown Birmingham: Where All the Lights Were Bright
Memories of Downtown Birmingham: Where All the Lights Were Bright

Author: Tim Hollis

Publisher: History Press Library Editions

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781540222404

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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."

Memories of Downtown Birmingham
Memories of Downtown Birmingham

Author: Tim Hollis

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1625846975

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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.

Freedom's Children
Freedom's Children

Author: Ellen S. Levine

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2000-12-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1101076178

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In this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South-to sit in an all-white restaurant and demand to be served, to refuse to give up a seat at the front of the bus, to be among the first to integrate the public schools, and to face violence, arrest, and even death for the cause of freedom. "Thrilling...Nothing short of wonderful."-The New York Times Awards: ( A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year ( A Booklist Editors' Choice

Back Roads & Memories
Back Roads & Memories

Author: Don Rankin

Publisher: Acclaim Press

Published: 2019-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781948901369

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For nearly six decades, Don Rankin has used watercolor techniques to capture the quiet beauty to be found in all things. From buildings and city scenes, to animals, people and nature landscapes, Don's unique gift of presenting light and shadow are highlighted in all his works. In his new book Back Roads & Memories, Don presents over 200 of his favorite works including detailed narratives that tell the story behind each painting. Now anyone can enjoy Don's award-winning art and understand why he is one of Alabama's most beloved artists!

Birmingham
Birmingham

Author: Carl Chinn

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781781382479

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This new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades.

Pizitz
Pizitz

Author: Tim Hollis

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010-11-05

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1614232199

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For nearly ninety years, Pizitz offered Birmingham residents and Alabamans across the state a one-of-a-kind shopping experience. From the Enchanted Forest that sprung up every Christmas to in-store fashion shows, visiting Pizitz wasn't just a trip to the store, it was an event. Yet Pizitz was more than just a department store--it was a Birmingham institution. When Louis Pizitz opened up his first dry goods store in downtown Birmingham in 1899, he began a career as a successful businessman and a generous philanthropist, establishing a tradition of giving freely to local causes that has come to define the Pizitz family. Join Birmingham historian Tim Hollis as he recounts the fascinating history behind one of Alabama's most recognizable names and treasured retailers.

Historic Photos of Birmingham in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
Historic Photos of Birmingham in the 50s, 60s, and 70s

Author:

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2010-10-28

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1618583859

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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.

Birmingham 1900-1945
Birmingham 1900-1945

Author: Eric Armstrong

Publisher: Images of England

Published: 2006-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780752440378

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This fascinating collection of over 200 picture postcards provides a nostalgic insight into the changing history of Birmingham during the period 1900-1945. For over a quarter of this time Britain was at war and the political and social changes experienced were immense, not least in Birmingham, a major industrial city. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, bringing the past alive and describing many aspects of life in the city, including chapters on wartime, work, sport, shopping, entertainment and celebrations, providing a vital record of vanished vistas and past practices. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of the area, and also awaken memories of a bygone time for those who worked or lived in the "Second City".

Carry Me Home
Carry Me Home

Author: Diane McWhorter

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-06-29

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 0743226488

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Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation. "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America’s long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America’s second emancipation. In a new afterword—reporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in Alabama—the author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.