This 1955 photo includes several elements that are no longer around. First, the crowd gathered in front of the Charles Theatre is a group of paper boys for the Montgomery Examiner. The Montgomery Examiner is no more, and paper boys like the ones in the photo are few and far between. And then there’s the Charles Theatre, which opened in 1940 and closed in March 1974. Photo courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives & History.
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This article appears in the October 2024 issue of Business Alabama.
