Water, Heat and the Weight of History: Mobilians Sound Off, Part Three
A third round of candid replies found Mobile residents praising the bay, live oaks and Southern charm while venting about crime, the school board, sprawl and a feeling of being…
Mobile’s Civic Delegation Went to Baltimore Looking for a Blueprint
More than 100 Mobilians joined the Chamber's annual leadership trip to Baltimore in June 2005, studying the rebounding city's accountability programs, 311 call center and revived Inner Harbor for lessons…
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…
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…
Old Press Building Emerges as Temporary Home for Mobile County Probate Court
In 2004, Mobile County officials eyed a former newspaper building on Government Street as temporary quarters for Probate Court while the old courthouse was razed and the annex expanded upward.