A national oral history project came to Mobile’s libraries, students organized a global warming teach-in at South Alabama, tourism officials courted snowbirds, and the Navco Road bridge neared reopening.
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From a Morehouse Busboy to a Caddy Master at Spring Hill: More First Jobs
A legislator who bussed tables on the Atlanta graveyard shift, a minister who ran the caddy shack at Spring Hill College and a judge who picked cotton at $2.50 a hundredweight recalled how they started.
Escambia County
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Shoeshine Kits, Snow Shovels and a Projector: Mobile Remembers the First Job
As a new class of graduates went looking for work, novelists, doctors, lawyers and legislators from the Mobile area recalled the jobs that taught them what work was, at a dime an hour.
Baldwin County
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First Jobs: Paper Routes, Ice Cream Plants and a Teenage Interview With George Strait
As another crop of graduates went looking for work, a group of Mobile-area figures were asked to recall the first jobs that started them off, from a Des Moines paper route to an Avondale foundry pattern shop.
Bayou La Batre
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First Jobs, Part Two: Crab Picking in Bayou La Batre and a Quarterback Sweeping the Shop
More Mobile-area figures recalled the work that started them off, including a summer picking crab in Bayou La Batre that produced a lifelong vow about education, and a future NFL quarterback cleaning parts.
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First Jobs, Part Four: The Mail Route, the DDT Truck and the Shoe Department Ambush
A substitute mail carrier’s route through Tillman’s Corner, a summer spent driving a city DDT truck and a teenage boy’s crushing disappointment in a department store shoe department round out the recollections.
Mobile
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130 Boxes and a Termite Problem: A Mobile Political Life Went to the Archives
Former City Commissioner Lambert Mims donated more than 130 boxes of papers, photographs and reel-to-reel tapes to the University of South Alabama, documenting a quarter century in Mobile politics.
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Passed Over at 48: A Mobile Broker’s Account of Losing the Manager’s Job He Had Earned
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 younger man with better connections.
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A Mobile Broker Remembers the Week His Firm Walked Out and Took the Clients With It
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 persuaded their clients to follow.
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‘You’re in Deep Trouble’: A Mobile Broker’s Rough First Year Under a New Firm’s Rules
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 a famous Christmas card fight.