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Historic Alabama: Taxi Driver

A billboard on wheels.

Retrospect: The rise and fall of Huntsville’s Whitesburg Theatre

From 1949 until the 1970s, the Whitesburg Theatre entertained residents and visitors to Huntsville.

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Historic Alabama: Beginnings of an industry

Birmingham's great industry of the late 1880s.

Retrospect: ADDSCO during World War II

Mobile answered the call to war with the Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. building Liberty Ships and other vessels.

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Historic Alabama: Health Care

Salter Hospital in Eufaula, during its first decade.

Retrospect: The story of Kymulga Grist Mill

Kymulga Grist Mill started producing ground flour in the late 1800s and continued into the 1970s.

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Retrospect: Ethel Armes and the history of Alabama’s coal and iron industries

An indispensible account of the coal and iron industry in the state was written by a young journalist, Ethel Armes, in 1910.

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