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FMH_0081 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph c. late 1920s by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of the bay front in Fairhope, Alabama. People dressed for a trip to Mobile are walking west on the Fairhope wharf to catch the bay boat steamer, while others enjoy recreational activities at the beach. While the rail tracks are still on the wharf, it appears that the tracks and trestle have been removed up wharf Hill, thus dating the picture after 1923 when the People's Rail Road stopp...
Record Type: Photo
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FMH_0164 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph c. late 1930s-1940s of the Fairhope Pier in Fairhope, Alabama. The view is of the bayfront looking to the shore with the Fairhope Casino in the distance. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection.
Record Type: Photo
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FMH_0702 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of the Bayside Casino in Fairhope, Alabama. This was not a gambling casino. Instead, there was a large dance hall on the upper floor, and a cafe and bowling alley below. Bath houses and changing rooms were in the building for a time. Mike Bowen opened the Fairhope Casino in 1920. This building was torn down in 1968. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History C...
Record Type: Photo
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FMH_0980 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph, slighlty bllurred, of the Fairhope Casio taken from the Fairhope Pier. c. 1940s. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History
Record Type: Photo
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FMH_1051 - Photograph, Digital
Color postcard of a watercolor picture of "The Pier and Beach, Fairhope, Ala." The Fairhope Casino is in the picture. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History.
Record Type: Photo
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FMH-A0005a - Audio, Digital
First part of an interview (audio) dated 1998. Mary Lois Timbes-Adshead interviews life-long friends Helene Beiser Hunter and Evalyn Berglin Porter for background research for her books "Meet Me at the Butterfly Tree" and "Fair Hope of Heaven." Approximately 48 minutes. Part 2 is FMH-A0005b. Helene Hunter and Evalyn Porter describe in detail their experiences in early to mid-twentieth century Fairhope. Included are memories of playing in the g...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH-A0005b - Audio, Digital
Second part of an interview (audio) dated 1998. Mary Lois Timbes-Adshead interviews life-long friends Helene Beiser Hunter and Evalyn Berglin Porter for background research for her books "Meet Me at the Butterfly Tree" and "Fair Hope of Heaven." Kenneth C. Cain joins the conversation for a few minutes around the midway point. Approximately 48 minutes. Part 1 is FMH-A0005a. Topics include homes, hotels and businesses, social and atheletic acti...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH-A0005b - Audio, Digital
Second part of an interview (audio) dated 1998. Mary Lois Timbes-Adshead interviews life-long friends Helene Beiser Hunter and Evalyn Berglin Porter for background research for her books "Meet Me at the Butterfly Tree" and "Fair Hope of Heaven." Kenneth C. Cain joins the conversation for a few minutes around the midway point. Approximately 48 minutes. Part 1 is FMH-A0005a. Topics include homes, hotels and businesses, social and atheletic acti...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-0327 - Photograph, Digital
Stylized drawing of the pier area in the 1930s-1940s in Fairhope, Alabama. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Photo
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FSTC-0384 - Photograph, Digital
Two photographs of the Fairhope pier in the 1920s. People are swimming off the north side of the "big" wharf. Close inspection shows boats, the Casino, the men's bath house, a diver in mid-air, an adventurous youngster on the roof of small pierhouse, among other activities in the pictures of life on Mobile Bay in Fairhope, Alabama. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Photo
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FSTC-0857 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph c.late 1920s by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of the bay front in Fairhope, Alabama. People dressed for a trip to Mobile are walking west on the Fairhope wharf to catch the bay boat steamer while others enjoy recreational activities at the beach. While the rail tracks are still on the wharf, it appears that the tracks have been removed up Wharf Hill, thus dating the picture after 1923 when the People's Rail Road stopped running. T...
Record Type: Photo
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FSTC-0904 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph, c. 1930, of the Fairhope Wharf. This picture appeared in the 1991 Pirateer Calendar titled "Footprints in the Sand" published by Fairhope High School. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Photo
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FSTC-1172 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph post card by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, titled "Municipal Pier, Fairhope, Ala." From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, courtesy of the Ruffles Family.
Record Type: Photo
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FSTC-1238-1247 - Photograph, Digital
Ten photographs dated in December,1955 of Mobile Bay and the Fairhope, Alabama bayfront. Includes, piers, the Fairhope Municipal pier, boats, the Fairhope Casino, North Beach Park, South Beach Park, and photos of the bay. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, courtesy of the Ruffles Family.
Record Type: Photo
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FSTC-1467-1468 - Photograph, Digital
Colorized photograph postcard c. 1950s titled "Swimming, Sailing and Enjoying the Breeze from Mobile Bay, at Fairhope, Alabama. Shows people walking and swimming on the Fairhope Pier. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Skinner Collection, courtesy of Edwin C. Skinner.
Record Type: Photo
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FSTC-V0022 - Video, Digital
Video interview of Curtis Bird Willard on February 2, 1995 by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Curtis Willard moverd to Fairhope as a boy in 1936 with his family. He started operating the projector at the Fairhope Movie Theater in 1938 when he was 12 years old. He talked about growing up in Fairhope, the "4 toots," going to the Organic School, Marietta Johnson, Gretchen Riggs and other teachers at the school. He mentioned Je...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0023 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated March 11, 1996 with Rae Bernhardt Jackson, a Fairhope native and resident who owned The Picture Show, a gift shop in downtown Fairhope near the movie theater on Fairhope Avenue. Mrs. Jackson is the person who suggested the idea of making video interviews of Fairhopers for the centennial celebration. She was interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider. Mrs. Jackson tells about the life of her grandparents, Lawrence and Victoria B...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0027 - Video, Digital
Video interview of Maxine Jowers Frederick on March 24, 1995 by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Maxine Jowers Frederick, was the daughter of Robert V. Jowers and his wife. (Mrs. Robert Jowers later remarried to William Funk, who worked at Fairhope Hardware.) Maxine moved to Fairhope in 1920 when she was less than a year old. She lived on de la Mare Avenue, also known as Pig Alley. She discussed growing up in Fairhope, life duri...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0028 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated March 15, 1995 of Kenneth E. "Ken" Wallace. His wife Phyllis was in attendance. Interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Bob Schneider. Ken Wallace talks about his maternal grandfather, Ozzie Freeman. Ken's parents were Walker Wallace, a WWII veteran and Elsie Freeman Wallace. Walker was in the fishing business in Fairhope, and Ken talked about his father's snag lines, making roe, designing the first crabtaps in Ba...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0034 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated February 6, 1995 with James E. Gaston, Jr. (Jim) who was born in Fairhope in 1921. His father, James Ernest Gaston, came to Fairhope from Des Moines, Iowa in 1894 with his parents Fairhope founders, E.B. and Clara Gaston, and his siblings Frances Lily, Leah Catherine and Cornelius Alsonzo. He was four years old. Jim's father, James Ernest Gaston (Sr) married Olive "Piney" Wood. They lived at 6 North Summit Street in F...
Record Type: Archives and Videos