Mobile’s Moon Pie Drop Returns With Mardi Gras Parade, Live Music and Free Museum Access
Mobile is gearing up for one of its biggest New Year’s Eve celebrations yet, with the city’s signature Moon Pie drop, a Mardi Gras parade,…
The Cabal Behind the Stock Board: Five Mobile Brokers Shop for a New Firm
Part twelve of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: five brokers met each afternoon after the boss left for his club, plotting to sell a ready-made Mobile office to a…
The Wrecking Ball on South Lawrence Street, and What Was Left Behind
Part nine of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: after years of haggling, the old family house sold for $18,292.80 and came down for a parking lot in the fall…
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.