A first edition, Insiders' Guide to Birmingham is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to "The Magic City". Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Birmingham and its surrounding environs.

Insiders' Guide® to Birmingham (Insiders' Guide Series)

Business & Money

Keith, Todd

Management & Leadership

Insider's Guide

Since its official founding in 1871, Birmingham, Alabama has been known by many names, including The Magic City” and Little Birmy,” but today it’s best remembered as the epicenter of the American Civil Rights Movement. Discover Birmingham’s rise as a southern industrial power, its role during the 60s, and its rebirth in the 21st century in Birmingham Then and Now. See the city’s most popular sites, including Jemison’s House, Vulcan Park, Red Mountain, and the steps of the Jefferson County Courthouse where the Reverend Martin Luther King called for an end to segregation. Pay a sobering visit to the 16th Street Baptist Church, the site of a bombing that killed four little girls in 1963 and became the turning point in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Though the bomb ripped a hole in the back of the building and destroyed all but one window, the church has been restored and remains an important monument in American history. Meet Miss Blanche,” proprietor of Madame Bernard’s Brothelreputed to be the best house in town. Her next-door neighbor, Old Lady Barfield,” ran a brothel of her own. See these houses of ill repute in all of their then-and-now glory.

Birmingham Then and Now (Then & Now Thunder Bay)

History

Americas

Thunder Bay Press

Kevin Costner : The Unauthorized Biography by Keith, Todd (1991) Hardcover

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Ikonprint

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Dust soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block.

Kevin Costner

Ikon Books

Kevin Costner: The Unauthorized Biography

Oliver Books

A late arrival on the Southern landscape, the city of Birmingham was not incorporated until after the Civil War. In fact, from 1820 to 1871, what is now Birmingham was known as the hamlet of Elyton, a small crossroads set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachian Mountains where several Pony Express and stage routes crossed paths. When two railroads eventually intersected at this point—where, significantly, all the ingredients necessary to make iron existed in close proximity—the region’s growth exploded. Birmingham’s history is not a story of the grace and vanished grandeur of an antebellum past, but rather, a dynamic story of modern American industrialization.Sites covered include: Hollywood, Alabama State Fairgrounds, Vulcan Park, Mountain Brook Village, The Old Mill, Avondale Park, Highland Park, Woodlawn High, Quinlan Castle, Five Points South, Bottega Favorita, Old Jefferson County Courthouse, Capitol Park, Tutwiler Hotel, Twentieth Street, Louise Wooster Brothel, Alabama Theatre, Kress Department Store, Joy Young Restaurant, Terminal Station, Molton Hotel, Lovemans, Massey Building, Bright Star, Temple of Sibyl, Sloss Furnaces, Red Mountain and Legion Field.

Birmingham Then and Now®

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Pavilion Books

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