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Today we are moving into Missouri and will start with a great circa 1908 view of the State Capitol and state seal in Jefferson City Missouri. This is a very popular state capitol series and makes a great post card set.
Our second stop is in Holden Missouri, a small town in Johnson County, which had a population of 2,007 in 1908 and 2,510 in 2000. This circa 1908 postcard shows both the Missouri Pacific Railroad Depot and the First M. E. Church. Both of these postcards can be found in my Missouri listings along with 10,000 additional postcards on my website Moody's Postcards.
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Will our last stop on this swing through Alabama will be in Rhodes Ferry Landing, Decatur, New Decatur or Albany Alabama? The answer is YES because the circa 1908 postcard for today shows downtown New Decatur along Second Avenue and all four names have been applied to the town. In the early 1800s Dr. Henry W. Rhodes, who was an early landowner, operated a ferry there on the Tennessee River in North Alabama and in 1821 the town was incorporated and named Decatur. The city thrived due to its location on the Tennessee river and it was the eastern terminus of the Decatur Courtland Tuscumbia Railroad which was the first railroad built east of the Appalachian Mountains. But this strategic location was a liability during the Civil War and the town was leveled by fire in the Battle of Decatur in 1864 and was left with only three buildings still standing. Post war recovery brought the town of Decatur back east of the railroad tracks but the new town west of the tracks was incorporated in 1889 as New Decatur.
The two towns prospered but Decatur was not happy with New Decatur since it was settled mostly by Yankees. New Decatur was renamed Albany, after Albany New York, in 1916 and that did not improve feelings. It was the mutual need for a bridge over the Tennessee river to replace the ferry that brought the cities together in 1925 as one City of Decatur. To this day, the two sides have somewhat different cultures. This postcard can be found in my Alabama listings along with 10,000 additional postcards on my website Moody's Postcards.
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Our visit to Birmingham Alabama ends today with a trip downtown to two landmarks. The first of these is seen on a 1942 Curteich post card featuring the Comer Building, a twenty plus story skyscraper towering over the downtown area.
The second landmark is the Municipal Auditorium on 8th Avenue North which was built in 1923 at a cost of one million dollars and had a seating capacity of 10,000. Both of these post cards can be found in my Alabama listings along with 10,000 additional postcards on my website Moody's Postcards.
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In a follow on to my last article, I wanted to show you another nice home in Birmingham Alabama. The 1930s E. C. Kropp post card below shows the Massey home and elaborate garden, pools and fountain. Birmingham was founded in 1871 as an industrial center with iron and steel production as the major industries and had the nickname of "The Pittsburgh of the South". The elaborate homes and gardens provide a nice offset to the industrial base. This postcard can be found in my Alabama listings along with 10,000 additional postcards on my website Moody's Postcards.
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Today we are still touring Alabama and visiting Birmingham for a look at how the rich folks live. The first post card is a close up view of the "country home", Vestavia, of George B Ward located on the top of Shades Mountain, altitude 1,300 feet and just 6 miles from Birmingham. The "home" is a replica of the celebrated Temple of Vesta of Rome which was destroyed in the fifth century. The dimensions are 70 feet high, 186 feet in circumference with 20 columns which have a 9 feet circumference. This first postcard is a 1937 Curteich production giving a close up view.
The second view is on a 1930s E. C. Kropp postcard and gives a great aerial view of the home and estate. Both of these postcards are available in my Alabama listings along with 10,000 additional postcards on my website Moody's Postcards.
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