Old photos of Mobile. The photos are in the public domain. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.Music from RU-vid Audio Library.
I'm curious about who built those huge buildings when there were only 38k people living in mobile in 1900. The pictures make it look like a ghost town, because it was. Where did those buildings come from? There are some huge missing pieces of our history, recent history.
That's exactly why I'm here lol, many great pieces of particularly southern history are missing, no info whatsoever, the streets look empty, that can be explained away by exposure times, but also that doesn't make too much sense seeing as there are much older portraits of prominent figures, taken in low exposure, with very high quality. Why can't the same be done for the buildings photos? There's a great RU-vidr if you're interested, he's called @mindunveiled he goes into all sorts of forgotten, covered up parts of history, he even has a 5 hour long video on Pensacola, it's much older forgotten history, as well as the various unexplainable tunnel systems running through the city and even under the bay supposedly, the same video briefly touches upon how the tunnels stretched to mobile. Thought it was very interesting as a resident of fairhope
I grew up in Satsuma, down Hwy 43 from Mobile. But my mother went to Barton Academy. I've been to the catholic cathedral, Bienville Square Park, and the Battle house. Dauphin Street still has some of its beautiful Ironwork. The cathedral is where the madras gras parades started in the 60's when I lived there. I have pictures of my grandmother riding the carousel at Monroe park in the teens. But since my grandfather was an Ironworker on the tunnels (Bankhead and GW) we did not go to the Club. We used to sing a silly song: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, walk stark naked down Government street! Don't remember where I heard that, but it was a song we used to chant when we drove down Government street.
