Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
FMH_0341 |
Object Name |
Photograph, Digital |
Description |
Photograph dated June, 1958, of Arthur Fairhope Gaston (aka Spider Gaston) and Miss Helen Call leading the Town of Fairhope's 50th Anniversary celebration parade. Although Fairhope was founded in 1894, it was not a municipality in the State of Alabama in 1908 - and it is this Golden Anniversary which is being celebrated. The float is passing The Colony Shop, located on the south side of the street at 332 Fairhope Avenue. (This business would later move to Del Fair Shopping Center, where the Fairhope Civic Center is now located, and then to its location as of 2022 on South Section Street.) A. F. Gaston was the son of Fairhope founder E. B. Gaston, and was the first boy born in the Fairhope Colony (August 1895). From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection. |
Search Terms |
Photographs Parades Fairhope Avenue Fairhope, town of Town of Fairhope Anniversary 332 Fairhope Avenue Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection |
People |
Call, Helen Bellangee (1897-1979) Gaston, Arthur Fairhope "Spider" (1896-1997) |
Date |
1958/06/00 |
Collection |
Fairhope Single Tax Corporation |