The National Park Service added Mobile’s Davis Avenue Recreation Center, founded in 1921 as the city’s first public recreation center for African Americans, to the National Register of Historic Places.
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Three Golden Ages and a Silver One: Reading Mobile’s History in Its Buildings
In a March 2005 series on Mobile’s golden age, attorney Palmer Hamilton argued the city had three of them, and that the proof stands in its churches, schools and antebellum houses.
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Salvation or Snake Eyes? Two Mobilians Argue Over the Convention Center’s Return on Investment
A published conversation between two Mobile observers weighs whether the downtown convention center has paid for itself, why Government Plaza depresses them, and whether high-speed ferries would ever carry anyone.