Remember When, by Mrs. C. D. Smith
History--Tuscaloosa (AL)
Lake Lorraine
Mrs. C.D. Smith wrote "Remember When: Lake Lorraine was Top Spot" for the Sesquicentennial Edition of the Tuscaloosa News.<br /><br />Click on the image above to read the article or read the text below.
Mrs. C.D. Smith
Tuscaloosa News Archive
Tuscaloosa News
April 29, 1969
Betty Slowe (Description)
Newspaper
Tuscaloosa (AL)
Post 34 Baseball Team, 1967
Baseball
Sports
This 1967 American Legion Post 34 baseball team was the only team to win the national championship from Alabama. The previous year, they were second. Mike Innes, who is in the photo, played baseball at the University of Alabama and in the minor league.
Front Row: Carey Wright (Bat Boy), Randy Ryan, Marlin Holman, Bobby Jones, Danny Morrison, Larry Norris, Marvin Herring
2nd Row: Rod Herron (Volunteer Assistant), Johnny Rushing, Carl Wright, Mike Innes, Perry Yawn, Woody Sexton, John Kersh
3rd Row: Mike Griffin (Assistant Coach), Joe Hutt (Assistant Coach), Glenn Woodruff, Bo Baughman, Wayne Rushing, David Elmore, Jones Tubb (Assistant Coach), Jerry Belk (Head Coach)
1967
Betty Slowe (Description)
Photograph
2535
Tuscaloosa (AL)
Akron Little League meets Paul "Bear" Bryant, 1963
Baseball
Little League Baseball (Organization)
Bryant, Paul W., 1913-1983
L-R: Michael Owens, Michael Langford, Owen Holston, Freddie Yeager, Stanley Owens, Tommy Martin, Jimmy Smith, unknown, Alabama Coach Bear Bryant and Coach Harry Lee Langford, far right with his hand on his hip.
The team of 12-year-olds was having an undefeated season. The Tuscaloosa News featured the team in an article. Coach Bryant saw it, called Coach Langford and said he wanted to meet the team. Langford offered to bring the team to Tuscaloosa, but Bryant said, “Oh, no. I’ll travel to meet champions!” He came to Akron and shook hands with all the players and gave them a flag and football.
Hubert Colvin was on the A team that was not in the photo but said he was so excited to meet Coach Bryant and shake his hand that he thought he would never wash his hands again.
This photo was in Coach Bryant's personal collection which was donated to the Bryant Museum.
Hubert Colvin
Summer, 1963
Betty Slowe (Description)
Photograph
2496
Hale County (AL)
Americus Team of the South Georgia Baseball League, 1923
Baseball
Jackson, Shoeless Joe, 1887-1951
Three Gordo baseball players played on this team with Shoeless Joe Jackson. Verdo Elmore Sr., Lefty Winegard and Early Hall are in the photograph.
Published in The Tuscaloosa News on Oct. 22, 2018, as a historical photograph.
Frank Elmore
1923
Betty Slowe (Description)
Photograph
2486
Pickens County (AL)
Stallworth Lake, circa 1920
Lakes
Recreational areas
Stallworth Lake was a recreational lake that was located at the foot of River Hill. The lake, which was built in 1918, had sliding boards, spring boards, diving towers, floating rafts, boating, a merry-go-round, and a miniature zoo. It became a city landfill in 1948.
Tuscaloosa Public Library
Circa 1920
Betty Slowe (Description)
Photograph
2442
Tuscaloosa (AL)
Tucker Motor Company's American Legion Junior Baseball Team, 1949
Baseball
This American Legion Junior Baseball Team was sponsored by Tucker Motor Company in 1949.
In front is batboy Bobby Hanna.
Frist row from left: Cecil Ingram, Jimmy Walker, Tommy Belk, Buford Hamner, Neely Foster, Don Price and Steve Hunter.
Second row: Skeet Wilson (salesman for Tucker Motor Company), Jack Smalley, Jimmy Harrison, William Lawley, Billy Henderson (manager), Walter Flowers, Charles Burroughs, Jerry Belk and W. Otis Foster (sales manager for Tucker Motor Company).
According to Jerry Belk, one of the team members, only he and two others survive in 2017.: Cecil “Hootie” Ingram and Jimmy Harrison Jr.
Jerry Belk described the summer of 1949 as the best one of his life. World War II had just ended, and people didn’t have much, but the boys had “a little white ball” according to Belk. There was camaraderie among the boys on the team that lasted for their lifetimes. Belk says the remaining three still get together.
The team was composed of gifted, intelligent and ambitious young men. Jimmy Harrison Jr., who pitched almost every game, became an owner of Harco Drug store. Walter Flowers became a congressman. Belk described Jack Smalley, left fielder, as probably the best all-around athlete who went on to play football for Alabama for two years and become a football coach. “Hootie” Ingram became director of athletics at Alabama. Jimmy Walker became a preacher. Belk, himself, was a teacher and coach at Holt High School and director of Tuscaloosa County Parks and Recreation for 31 years.
The team had a great coach, Billy Henderson. The team played and practiced at Veteran’s Field, behind the Veterans Administration Hospital. Veterans who were able came out to watch the team practice and play. The joke that Belk attributed to “Hootie” Ingram was that their team had more people at their practices than the teams they played had in their towns. The team won the State Championship though they were beat out in the regionals, the first time a Tuscaloosa team had won the State.
1949
Betty Slowe (Description)
Photograph
2400
Tuscaloosa (AL)
Holt Baseball Team, 1962
Baseball
The 1962 Holt High School baseball team won the 1962 Warrior Athletic Conference. Pictured are, front row from left, Danny Turner, Carl Archibald, Willis Reynolds, Jack Clary, Ray Hendrix, Jimmy McKay, Roy Johnson, Larry Carson, and Mike Hickman; and, back row from left, manager Richard Dyer, Dennis Hutchins, Ken Gilbreath, Milton Hunnicutt, Ken McGee, Freddy Williams, Roy Tubbs, Jack Hunnicutt, manager Herky Wooley and coach Jerry Belk.
Willis Reynolds
The Tuscaloosa News, Jan 13, 2014
1962
Betty Slowe (Description)
Photograph
2302
Tuscaloosa (AL)
Legion Wrestling Card Ticket
Wrestling matches
An admittance ticket for Legion Wrestling held at the National Guard Armory.
American Legion
Chuck's Fish
Tuscaloosa Public Library
Ticket
2279
Tuscaloosa (AL)
Tuscaloosa High School Football Team, 1941
Football teams
Shown in this 1941 photo of the Tuscaloosa High School football team are:
Row 1: E.B. Wilson, Vic Spradley, Gene Pearson, Jack Kirkly, Melvin Hardin, Raphael Blackburn, Frank "Pedro" Cummings, Billy Henderson.
Row 2: M.D. Malone, Murray Bock, Ed Storey, Fred Solson, Frizt Freiley, Louis Ball, James Madison, Bill Beasant, Britt Cox, Billy Farmer, J.T. Sullivan, Waites, Dewey McCracken.
Row 3: Coach Frank Kendall, Culpepper, Frazier, Gaddy, David Crane, "Chicken" Thrower, Snow, Teague, Nix, George Manley Latham Jr., Bill Curtis, Assistant Coach Anderson.
Row 4: Morgan, Elam, Stuart, Thomas Graves, Hix, George Albright, Windham, Whatley, James Henderson, Randolph Mims, Bill "Swig" Sexton, Mims.
Billy Henderson, shown in the first row, was later head coach of the Tuscaloosa High School football team for many years.
Bill Blakeney
1941
Betty Slowe (Description)
Photograph
2046
Tuscaloosa (AL)
Northport Babes Softball Team, 1950
Softball
Jake Duren coached the Northport Babes for three seasons beginning in 1949, teaching the fundaments of the game, providing uniforms and transportation to games. He tagged each play with a special nickname such as Carrot Top, Hoss, Radio, Taxi Cab, Mop, Furpole and Little Pot.
Pictured in the first row (left to right) : Sandra Patton (McDaniel), Betty Frances Rainwater (Reynolds), Patsy Brown (McKnight), Ann Brown (Simpson), and Martha Caroline Noland (Simpson).
Second row: Sonny Snider, Inez Kemp, Betty Manderson (Hale), Pat Taylor, Charlotte Patton.
Third row: Coach Jessie Jake Duren, Johnny Hagar, Sarah Jean Crawford, Betty Sue Keene (Sexton), Jimmie Ann Earnest (Shaw), Mr. Palmer (loyal fan of the Babes).
Patsy McKnight
1950
Betty Slowe (Description)
Photograph
1986
Northport (AL)