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  • Collection: Businesses

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This business believed to have been located in the 15th Street/Hackberry Lane area in the 1950s featured chicken in a basket for $1.00.

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Located at 2001 6th Street (originally Cotton Street), the car dealership sold Chevrolets and Hudsons. Also known as Tuscaloosa Chevrolet, the business moved to Greensboro Avenue near the Black Warrior River. Later the building in this photograph was…

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Taken on July 4, 1952, the photo shows a flooded area at the intersection of 8th Street and 23rd Avenue in Tuscaloosa. In the background is Barksdale and Sons Dry Cleaners at 2223 8th Street owned by E. Rush Barksdale, Jesse M. Barksdale and Leonard…

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Employees and managers of the Kress Store in Tuscaloosa, Ala., are shown. They include Florence Bruce on the first row, extreme left. Florence Bruce would later meet her husband while working at the store. He was a University of Alabama law student…

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Advertisement for J.D. Foster who sold furniture and was an Undertaker and Funeral Director.

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This sign in front of the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse tracked donations or investments for a new hotel in Tuscaloosa that would become Hotel Stafford. The hotel opened in 1956 with the finest accommodations in Tuscaloosa. Hayse Tucker was chairman…

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The Tuscaloosa Cotton Seed Oil Company building sits by the railroad in Tuscaloosa.

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This drawing published April 8, 1917, shows a building that was to house The Tuscaloosa News. The building was designed by architect D.O. Whilldin for the owners Messers Persons and Claybaugh (sic). The building was to be built at the corner of Broad…

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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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