Suppers Alone in an Empty Apartment: A Mobile Landlord Waits Out the Old House
Part eight of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: the author kept going back to his mother's apartment for supper, while the ledgers told him the old house could not…
Sixteen Tenants in Five Apartments: A Reluctant Landlord on South Lawrence Street
Part seven of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: inheriting his mother's apartment house, the author found himself collecting rent from a cast of tenants the suburbs had left behind.
The Best Year and the Worst: A Mobile Broker Remembers November 1958
Part six of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: the year the author's production soared was also the year he lost the mother who had raised three children on a…
The Day a Newcomer Called Zenith to 300 and Stopped a Mobile Office Cold
Part five of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: brokers gave a suspicious Northern newcomer a wide berth, until the day he staged a trading feat nobody in the office…
The Sitters, the Soybean Doctor and a Change of Command Downtown
Part four of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: retired men who spent their days watching the tape, a shift in command at the brokerage, and the return of the…
‘What Have I Gotten Into?’ A New Broker Takes the Measure of Mobile’s Little Wall Street
Part two of a serialized memoir of a bygone Mobile: a rookie account executive discovers that all three of the men above him at the downtown brokerage have a drinking…
Sell 200,000 Bushels: The Mobile Surgeon Who Traded Soybeans From the Operating Room
Part ten of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: a Mobile eye surgeon ran enormous soybean positions from the operating table, and made his broker the top producer in the…
St. Patrick’s Day, 1952: How a Mobile Sportswriter Wandered Into the Brokerage Business
The first installment of a serialized memoir of a bygone Mobile recalls a 31-year-old juggling three jobs who walked into a downtown brokerage office next door to the liquor store.
Nobody Rings a Bell at the Top: A Mobile Brokerage’s Bear Market Revolt
Part eleven of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: a brutal 1962 bear market, a boss who berated a broker on the morning his mother-in-law was dying, and the plot…