Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Alabama history from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
A Point Clear lawyer and self-described jackleg historian argues Mobile's golden age belongs to its mystic societies, dating it precisely from the last great New Year's parade in 1881 to…
The concluding installment of a Mobile memoir: a foul-mouthed doctor diagnoses a pulmonary embolism, a broker survives, and a man decides that a million-dollar year is not what he will…
In the next installment of his recollections, a Mobile stockbroker described reaching the top of his profession in 1968, then being displaced as office manager the following year by a…
In a January 2005 installment of his recollections of a bygone Mobile, a retired stockbroker described the frantic fortnight in which he and his partners opened a new office and…
A retired Mobile stockbroker recalled the punishing first year at a new firm, where unfamiliar exchange rules, an unhappy back office and a parsimonious owner made for slow going and…
Part three of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: a Christmas bonus paid in whiskey, an NYSE exam graded by the boss, and a tape so slow a quote took…
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…
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…
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…
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.