The band Three Dog Night was set to headline Mobile’s free New Year’s Eve celebration, capped by the midnight MoonPie Drop from the RSA BankTrust tower as the city welcomed 2012 and Mardi Gras season.
Tag: Mardi Gras
Local News
Demeranville Florist Closes After 121 Years in Downtown Mobile
A downtown Mobile fixture since 1889, Demeranville Florist shut its doors on Memorial Day, ending a family business that began on Bienville Square and outlasted three centuries of the city’s history.
Fairhope
When Could You Wear White? Mobile’s Forgotten Straw Hat Day and the Rules of a Southern Spring
Long before Memorial Day became the national starting gun for white shoes, Mobile mayors proclaimed Straw Hat Day just before Easter. The city archives still hold the proclamations.
Local News
Mobile Notebook: A Scarce Mayor, a Promised Rebuttal and a District Meeting in Leinkauf
Mayor Sam Jones’s absence from City Hall was raising eyebrows, the camp of former judge Herman Thomas promised a reply to recent allegations, and Councilman William Carroll called a district meeting.
Baldwin County
Mobile County Voted First: Primary Day on the Coast, and an Obama Operation ‘On Fire’
Because Super Tuesday collided with Mardi Gras, Mobile and Baldwin voted a week early. Democratic organizers reported heavy turnout in Republican strongholds and out-of-state volunteers working the county.
Baldwin County
Mobile Legislators Opened Their Homes for a Montgomery Congressional Hopeful as the Primary Neared
Four Mobile-area state legislators hosted a reception for a Montgomery Republican running in the 2nd Congressional District, while the Romney campaign eyed a Senior Bowl weekend stop ahead of an early coastal primary.
Baldwin County
With Iowa and New Hampshire Behind Them, South Alabama Politicos Called the 2008 Race Wide Open
Days after Iowa and New Hampshire scrambled the field, dozens of Mobile and Baldwin county political figures offered wildly different forecasts for a presidential contest neither party could yet control.
Local News
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 ignored by Montgomery.
Local News
What Mobilians Love and Loathe About Their City, Part One
In the fall of 2005, with a new mayor at City Hall and Katrina’s cleanup underway, dozens of Mobile residents answered three questions about what they loved, what they loathed and what they could not stop thinking about in their city.
Local News
Phone Booths at the Battle House: A Mobile Broker’s Secret Courtship of a Cotton King
In a serialized memoir of a bygone Mobile, a group of stockbrokers plotting to leave a tyrannical boss found a backer in a courtly New Orleans financier who once cornered the cotton market.