Birmingham's Theater and Retail District (Images of America by Tim Hollis

By Tim Hollis

From the Nineties to the Seventies, the thriving region of Birmingham among Eighteenth and Twenty-first Streets alongside First, moment, and 3rd Avenues was once the bustling center of this fast transforming into urban. prior to the age of the shopping center, the downtown used to be the heart of retail and leisure in Birmingham. alongside those streets, entrepreneurial immigrants equipped division stores—including Pizitz and Loveman, Joseph, and Loeb—while the marquees of the Alabama, Ritz, and Lyric theaters, between others, shined over the busy downtown sidewalks.

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