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Tokens for O'Rourke Bros Merchant Tailors were good for $2.50 on a suit or overcoat. Owners were Val and Henry O'Rourke. The company was located at 2312 7th Street in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Their phone number was 903.

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This diner was located in the Greyhound Bus Station at 2031 Broad Street (now University Blvd.) in downtown Tuscaloosa. Working at the diner are Elsie Snipes, Audrey Beetle, manager, and Vera Mitchell. The diner provided food cooked on site, and…

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When Woolworth’s opened in Tuscaloosa (AL) in 1917, crowds poured in for inexpensive lunches at the soda fountain and could open a newspaper to read about World War I. An article in the Tuscaloosa News on March 20, 1992, announced the store’s…

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The Sam Jackson Store was founded in 1914 when Sam F. Jackson Sr. bought the general store where he had worked as a boy in the 2300 block of 6th Street. At some point, according to one newspaper article, the business moved to University Boulevard…

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The Lyn Oaks Motor Court was located on U.S. Highway 11 near Five-Points which was, before Interstate 20/59 was constructed, the main thoroughfare from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham. Lyn Oaks stayed quite busy at that time.

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Bernard Friedman and Emanuel Loveman owned
the Atlanta Store which stood at the corner of Broad Street (now University Boulevard) and Market Street (now Greensboro Avenue) where the 10-story bank building stands now as a Tuscaloosa landmark.

The…

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The Auto-Rite Shell Service Station was on the corner of Greensboro Avenue and Ninth Street in Tuscaloosa at a site occupied in 2015 by an addition to the United Methodist Church.

Auto-Rite was owned by J.R. Moman and sold to Floyd Turner. A 1953…

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An advertisement for the improved Bon-Ton Corsets that were for sale at the Friedman & Loveman store in Tuscaloosa. The Friedman & Loveman store was located at 21 North College Street and sold "Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes…

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Dill and Collier Drugstore was opened in 1887. One owner, W.A. Collier, soon bought controlling interest in the store and was said to be one of the finest pharmacists in Tuscaloosa. The business, originally across Broad Street (now University…

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The Maxwell Brothers sold wholesale foods from their location on Broad Street (now University Boulevard) and 23rd Avenue that in 2014 is the location of the Mellow Mushroom restaurant.
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