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This aerial photo shows the lift bridge across the Black Warrior River from Northport to Tuscaloosa about 1970. The bridge was demolished in 1973 when the new Hugh Thomas Bridge was constructed.

Greensboro Avenue begins at the bridge and proceeds…

Maxwell Brother Wholesale Grocers was located on the corner of Broad Street (University Boulevard) at 23rd Avenue in Tuscaloosa where the Mellow Mushroom restaurant is located in 2014.

The McEachin-Little House is a square two-story structure with center end chimney and hip roof. A hall separates four rooms downstairs and the second story has the same plan.

Originally, there were 16 bracketed posts of wood, with banisters…

This 12-room English Tudor style house is constructed of wood and masonry with rock trim. Restored by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ray, the structure now contains an enlarged kitchen and redesigned bathrooms. The third floor of the house is a large room with…

The Old Bama Theatre was located on the north side of Broad Street (now University Boulevard) in Tuscaloosa, next to what was then the First National Bank Building. The theater showed vaudeville acts and motion pictures. On the marquee, Deloris…

The Old Tavern was originally located on the north side of University Boulevard between Lurleen Wallace North and South (Broad Street between 25th Avenue and 26th Avenue). It was built in 1827 by William Dunton, a hotel proprietor. Many state…

This Federal style home with its red brick exterior was built by Judge J.J. Ormond in 1835 with bricks shipped from England. The small portico has Ionic columns rising to the second floor, Earlier a balustrade outlined the roof top of the front porch…

This house, part of a home built circa 1826 by one of Tuscaloosa's first doctors and a Methodist minister, was purchased by the late Dr. John Gallalee, longtime University faculty member and president of the University of Alabama in 1940. The 1820's…

Pug's Restaurant on University Boulevard near the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa sold meal tickets to students and served 800 to 900 meals a day during the 1940s and 1950s. Many students earned money for tuition by working at Pug's. The…

Four features of the Queen City Pool in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which was dedicated in 1943, and two historical markers by the Alabama Historical Association are featured in this sketch.

According to one marker: In 1926, the city of Tuscaloosa…