Monthly Archives: February 2018

Officially at 1255 Madison Avenue, but as you can see, it’s actually tucked into the back left corner of the Paterson Field parking lot. Two forsaken entities side by side, the TV studio on the left, the edge of the baseball stadium on the right. Alabama Public Television was established […]

WAIQ TV Studios

 in Commercial  tagged APT / studios / WAIQ
Poor, forsaken, Paterson Field Baseball Stadium . . . on Madison Avenue, directly across from Cramton Bowl. It was built in 1949; its 7,000 capacity made it an impressive facility back then. In its heyday it was home field for the reincarnated Montgomery Rebels, a Class AA minor league affiliate […]

Paterson Field

 in Commercial  tagged baseball / field / paterson
The Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter . . . at 2911 Woodley Road, anchors the Southern tip of the triangular shaped Gay Meadows subdivision, almost touching Southern Boulevard. The church was carefully crafted to resemble its former Carpenter Gothic home in the once elegant Cottage Hills District. The Holy […]

Holy Comforter

 in Religious  tagged church / comforter / episcopal / holy
built this structure at 1021 Madison Avenue (directly opposite the Bibb Graves Armory) in the early 1950s, complete with the awful insertion of glass block. But despite that faux pas, it has this slight Federal Style feel, and appears somewhat staid to be a Shriner redoubt. I do understand that […]

Alcazar Shrine

 in Commercial / Government  tagged alcazar / shrine
I must pay homage to the D W Moody Hardware Store. Moody hardware stores have been important fixtures in Montgomery as long as I have lived here. Soon after he returned home from WW II, Dempsey Moody opened this store, and despite numerous setbacks, he refused to surrender. DW did […]

D W Moody Hardware Store

 in Commercial  tagged hardware / moody