1948
New ProAssurance CEO Stan Starnes was born.
Photo credit: Bob Farley/f8photo
1917
The Birmingham News printed its first edition from its handsome new building on 4th Avenue North at 22nd Street. The building is currently being demolished to make way for employee parking.
Posted in A look back, Alabama, Birmingham, history
WBHM poses a version of this question to listeners this evening and hopes that many will take part in a question and answer session beginning at 6:30 p.m. Last week our local Alabama Public Radio station put together an excellent series taking a closer look at the region’s Urban Divide, just in time for consideration during our fall elections. If you have not had the opportunity to check out this series yet, take a look at the links that follow the read more link and then tune in this evening (or listen online) while a great panel sits to discuss where we are and what’s next.
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Citywide, Media, Regionwide
It’s Labor Day weekend; the unofficial end of summer. If you’re actually reading this, answer one question for us: What are you going to be doing tomorrow?
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Citywide, Magic City Question
As we mentioned earlier this morning, we figured that you’d want to know what we were going to do with all of your questions that were submitted. NOTE: Thanks for submitting them to us by the way.
UPDATE: Hear their answers to your questions NOW on our Election ’07 site!
All of the candidates have been invited by mail, email or via hand delivered letters to participate in our online forum series as part of our Election 2007 coverage. The candidates have been asked to allow us to record their answers to those questions you submitted to our site. The answers will be posted during the week of September 10 – 14 allowing you to hear in their own words. The candidates will not know the answers that the others have given, keeping them focused on the issues. We will post one answer a day, with the last day posting both the last question and a question that has been asked specifically of them.
At this time, we have received commitments from two candidates. If you have not confirmed, or if you have any questions, please contact our managing editor, André Natta, either by phone or email as listed on our contact page.
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Citywide, Election '07, politics
Earlier this week, Patrick Cooper commented on our coverage of William Bell and Carole Smitherman having MySpace pages. He mentioned his own website, which was the first site up on the web among the candidates. He also pointed out his existence on Facebook for the last month.
Mr. Cooper does in fact have a Facebook group, named for the mayoral campaign and administered by the campaign’s volunteer coordinator. It currently has 73 members. Here is a link to the group. NOTE: You must have a Facebook profile in order to view the group page.
We have provided links to existing web pages/sites for the candidates after the jump:
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Citywide, Election '07, politics
1939:
Legendary bassist Cleve Eaton was born in Fairfield
Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, who spent part of his childhood in Birmingham, died.
The first official weather observation was recorded at the Weather Forecast Office Birmingham.
The Birmingham Post-Herald printed its final edition.
Enjoy the holiday weekend!
Courtesy: Bhamwiki.com
Posted in A look back, Alabama, Birmingham, history
The rumors of their demise were premature, but only slightly. Black & White reported in their August 9 edition that longtime local favorite Scott’s Koneys was already closed. Well, yesterday was actually the last day for the 30+ year old establishment at its current location. Don’t get too upset though; they do still intend to move into the Liberty National building located at the corner of Richard Arrington, Jr. Blvd. and 3rd Avenue South. The foot traffic outside of the old location was steady today. Thanks to the Bryants of B’ham and our friends at Bhamwiki for the information.
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