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Government Street: 1906
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 08/24/2012 - 11:37am.
Mobile, Alabama, circa 1906. "Government Street." Wrought iron and spectral pedestrians. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
Standing on the Corner
Submitted by lesle on Sun, 08/26/2012 - 12:24pm.
A more gentle time.
Submitted by nowhine on Fri, 08/24/2012 - 8:41pm.
We lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the '50s through '70s and it was a big deal for us to go to the "big city" of Mobile for Christmas shopping and a meal at Morrison's cafeteria. But that was a kinder and more gentle time for Mobile, and the rest of the area when I reflect back on it.
Mobile Memories
Submitted by lesle on Fri, 08/24/2012 - 1:09pm.
Government Street in time also became U.S. Highway 90, the major east-west highway along the Gulf coast before I-10.
As a kid, in the 1940s and 1950s, I watched many a Mardi Gras parade (mule-pulled floats, hand-carried limelight illumination), and went one year to Barton Academy, all along this very stretch of Government St. Many of these residences were still there then.
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