Mobile and Baldwin County News
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 fourteenth installment of a bygone-Mobile memoir finds the conspirators summoned to a financier's beach house, an office secured in the Waterman Building, and one man losing his nerve.
The fifteenth installment of a bygone-Mobile memoir delivers the payoff: a suspiciously generous contract, a coordinated resignation, and a boss confronted at his club.
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.
Part six of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: the year the author's production soared was also the year he lost the mother who had raised three children on a…
Part five of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: brokers gave a suspicious Northern newcomer a wide berth, until the day he staged a trading feat nobody in the office…