Pizitz

Pizitz

Author: Tim Hollis

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010-11-05

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1614232199

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For nearly ninety years, Pizitz offered Birmingham residents and Alabamans across the state a one-of-a-kind shopping experience. From the Enchanted Forest that sprung up every Christmas to in-store fashion shows, visiting Pizitz wasn't just a trip to the store, it was an event. Yet Pizitz was more than just a department store--it was a Birmingham institution. When Louis Pizitz opened up his first dry goods store in downtown Birmingham in 1899, he began a career as a successful businessman and a generous philanthropist, establishing a tradition of giving freely to local causes that has come to define the Pizitz family. Join Birmingham historian Tim Hollis as he recounts the fascinating history behind one of Alabama's most recognizable names and treasured retailers.


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Download or read book Pizitz written by Tim Hollis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly ninety years, Pizitz offered Birmingham residents and Alabamans across the state a one-of-a-kind shopping experience. From the Enchanted Forest that sprung up every Christmas to in-store fashion shows, visiting Pizitz wasn't just a trip to the store, it was an event. Yet Pizitz was more than just a department store--it was a Birmingham institution. When Louis Pizitz opened up his first dry goods store in downtown Birmingham in 1899, he began a career as a successful businessman and a generous philanthropist, establishing a tradition of giving freely to local causes that has come to define the Pizitz family. Join Birmingham historian Tim Hollis as he recounts the fascinating history behind one of Alabama's most recognizable names and treasured retailers.

Carry Me Home

Carry Me Home

Author: Diane McWhorter

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-06-29

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 0743226488

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Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation. "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America’s long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America’s second emancipation. In a new afterword—reporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in Alabama—the author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.


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Download or read book Carry Me Home written by Diane McWhorter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06-29 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation. "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America’s long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America’s second emancipation. In a new afterword—reporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in Alabama—the author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.

Birmingham's Theater and Retail District

Birmingham's Theater and Retail District

Author: Tim Hollis

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738517773

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From the 1890s to the 1970s, the thriving area of Birmingham between Eighteenth and Twenty-first Streets along First, Second, and Third Avenues was the bustling heart of this quickly growing city. Before the age of the shopping mall, the downtown was the center of retail and entertainment in Birmingham. Along these streets, entrepreneurial immigrants built department stores--including Pizitz and Loveman, Joseph, and Loeb--while the marquees of the Alabama, Ritz, and Lyric theaters, among others, shined over the busy downtown sidewalks.


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Download or read book Birmingham's Theater and Retail District written by Tim Hollis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1890s to the 1970s, the thriving area of Birmingham between Eighteenth and Twenty-first Streets along First, Second, and Third Avenues was the bustling heart of this quickly growing city. Before the age of the shopping mall, the downtown was the center of retail and entertainment in Birmingham. Along these streets, entrepreneurial immigrants built department stores--including Pizitz and Loveman, Joseph, and Loeb--while the marquees of the Alabama, Ritz, and Lyric theaters, among others, shined over the busy downtown sidewalks.

To Establish an Independent Consumer Protection Agency

To Establish an Independent Consumer Protection Agency

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Reorganization, Research, and International Organizations

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 1352

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book To Establish an Independent Consumer Protection Agency written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Reorganization, Research, and International Organizations and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transfer of Technology to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Transfer of Technology to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 1726

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Transfer of Technology to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To Establish an Independent Consumer Protection Agency

To Establish an Independent Consumer Protection Agency

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 1206

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book To Establish an Independent Consumer Protection Agency written by United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie

A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie

Author: Mark H. Elovitz

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2003-03-27

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0817350217

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The first substantial history of the Jews in the industrial south This is the first substantial history of the Jews in any inland town or city of the industrial South. The author starts with the Reconstruction Period when the community was established and he carries the story down into the 1970’s. First there were the “Germans,”' the pioneers who built the community; then came the East Euopean emigres who had to cope not only with the problem of survival but the disdain if not the hostility of the already acculturated Central European settlers who had forgotten their own humble beginnings. After World War I came the fusion of the two groups and the need to cooperate religiously and to integrate their cultural, social, and philanthropic institutions. Binding them together and speeding the rise of a total Jewish community was the ever present fear of anti-Jewish prejudice and the “peculiar” problem, a real one, of steering a course between the Christian Whites and the Christian Blacks.


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Download or read book A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie written by Mark H. Elovitz and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first substantial history of the Jews in the industrial south This is the first substantial history of the Jews in any inland town or city of the industrial South. The author starts with the Reconstruction Period when the community was established and he carries the story down into the 1970’s. First there were the “Germans,”' the pioneers who built the community; then came the East Euopean emigres who had to cope not only with the problem of survival but the disdain if not the hostility of the already acculturated Central European settlers who had forgotten their own humble beginnings. After World War I came the fusion of the two groups and the need to cooperate religiously and to integrate their cultural, social, and philanthropic institutions. Binding them together and speeding the rise of a total Jewish community was the ever present fear of anti-Jewish prejudice and the “peculiar” problem, a real one, of steering a course between the Christian Whites and the Christian Blacks.

United States Congressional Serial Set, Serial No. 14724, House Reports Nos. 113-130

United States Congressional Serial Set, Serial No. 14724, House Reports Nos. 113-130

Author:

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published:

Total Pages: 1588

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book United States Congressional Serial Set, Serial No. 14724, House Reports Nos. 113-130 written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Matter of Representative Earl F. Hilliard

In the Matter of Representative Earl F. Hilliard

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 1076

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book In the Matter of Representative Earl F. Hilliard written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vintage Birmingham Signs

Vintage Birmingham Signs

Author: Tim Hollis

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738553764

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Most people do not stop to realize how many of their fond memories involve advertising signs. Although these neon spectaculars, billboards, and even signs painted directly onto brick walls were created expressly to persuade customers to buy products or patronize businesses, many such signs remained in place for so long that they became beloved landmarks in their own right. For Images of America: Vintage Birmingham Signs, Tim Hollis has scoured the archives of Birmingham's former sign companies, as well as other private collections, to compile some of the best remembered or most obscure signs that dotted the urban and suburban landscape. Here readers will again see the Buffalo Rock bottle pouring its ginger ale into a glass, the Golden Flake clown smiling down at passersby, the Barber's milk clock at the Five Points South intersection, and many more. Through these vintage photographs, readers can once again visit such once-thriving destinations as Eastwood Mall, Burger in a Hurry, and the Kiddieland amusement park.


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Download or read book Vintage Birmingham Signs written by Tim Hollis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people do not stop to realize how many of their fond memories involve advertising signs. Although these neon spectaculars, billboards, and even signs painted directly onto brick walls were created expressly to persuade customers to buy products or patronize businesses, many such signs remained in place for so long that they became beloved landmarks in their own right. For Images of America: Vintage Birmingham Signs, Tim Hollis has scoured the archives of Birmingham's former sign companies, as well as other private collections, to compile some of the best remembered or most obscure signs that dotted the urban and suburban landscape. Here readers will again see the Buffalo Rock bottle pouring its ginger ale into a glass, the Golden Flake clown smiling down at passersby, the Barber's milk clock at the Five Points South intersection, and many more. Through these vintage photographs, readers can once again visit such once-thriving destinations as Eastwood Mall, Burger in a Hurry, and the Kiddieland amusement park.