Tag: Retrospect
Retrospect: Thomas Eastin and the early days of Alabama’s press
Thomas Eastin launched The Halcyon and Tombeckbe Advertiser in 1815.
Retrospect: The cotton kingdom of Isidor Weil
Isidor and Herman Weil launched a cotton brokerage that would grow to one of the world's largest.
Retrospect: The French artisan who helped shape Alabama’s early identity
Mobile's poet, jeweler and pioneer Jean Simon Chaudron counted among his clients the nation's founding fathers.
Retrospect: The history of Holt’s Central Iron & Coal Co.
Holt's Central Iron & Coal Co. installed a foundry on the shores of the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County.
The early years of ice cream in Sylacauga
A building in Sylacauga has been home to decades of ice-cream manufacturing, most recently Blue Bell.
Retrospect: The rise and fall of Huntsville’s Whitesburg Theatre
From 1949 until the 1970s, the Whitesburg Theatre entertained residents and visitors to Huntsville.
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.
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.
Retrospect: Alarico supplied the treats when sweets were in short supply
A partnership born from Alabama farmers and businesses brought Alarico yams to Chicago.
Retrospect: An Alabama woman invents a standard part on today’s autos
Alabamian Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper, filing a patent in 1903.