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1. FMH_151-152 - Photograph, Digital

   Photographs of movie theater on Fairhope Avenue in Fairhope, Alabama. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection.

   Record Type: Photo

   
2. 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

   
3. FSTC-0417 - Photograph, Digital

   Two photographs dated December 6, 1951 and published in the December 13, 1951 Fairhope Courier . The caption reads: "The above picture shows the Band of Fairhope heading the parade on the occasion of the arrival of four Hollywood Stars, Robert Stack, Bruce Bennett, Julia Adams and producer Irving Asher in Fairhope last Thursday afternoon and Cecil Pitman, president of the Chamber of Commerce greeting the visitors at the Fairhope Theatre wher...

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. FSTC-0544 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated 1957 of a parade in downtown Fairhope, Alabama. The picture is taken near the corner of Fairhope Avenue and Church Street looking east northeast. The water tank, many town business (Dixie Hotel, Pure Oil, Fairhope Hardware, Bedsole's, Bama Jewelers, Holland Rexall Drug Store, etc.), movie theater, as well as a stand of trees just east of Bancroft Street are clearly visible. The traffic light at the intersection of Fairhope Aven...

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. FSTC-0691 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph of the Playhouse Theater on Fairhope Avenue in downtown Fairhope, Alabama. Sign under the window advertises Pathe Sound News newsreel shorts. Another sign advertises the Thursday Matinee. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

   Record Type: Photo

   
6. FSTC-1181-1182 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph post card (front and back) by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, titled "The Magnet." This was The Magnet Theater in Fairhope, Alabama. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, courtesy of the Ruffles Family.

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. FSTC-V0021 - Video, Digital

   Video interview dated February 2, 1995 with H. Reed Myers and Pierce E. "Bud" Frederick (1923-2000); interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Pierce "Bud" Frederick appears on the right in the interview. He speaks first. Dr. Frederick was born in Fairhope in 1923. His parents were Paul A. Frederick (1894-1972) and Esther Pierce Frederick (1897-1997). His mother was the niece of Marietta Johnson; Pierce and his brother Pa...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
8. FSTC-V0031 - Video, Digital

   Video interview with Robert Richard Turner, known as Dick Turner. He is interviewed by Ruth E. Rockwell and Flo Coleman Schneider as part of the Fairhope, Alabama centennial celebration. The interview is about 14 minutes long and appears to be taken from the middle of Mr. Turner's coments. Dick Turner, a native of Atmore, Alabama and long-time resident of Fairhope, moved here in the 1940's and graduated from Fairhope High School in 1950. ...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos