UPDATES:
08/31/2008:
This
month in history for September. Also added old pavement brick
pictures from Savannah.
August 1, 2008: This
month in history for August.
July 18, 2008: Added "Quacker Jack" sticker to main page.
July 6, 2008: Added link to News
article on Cousin Cliff Holman (Alzheimer's).
July 4, 2008: This
month in history for July.
June 2, 2008: This
month in history for June. Also new section on 60th
anniversary of KIDDIELAND.
April 30, 2008: This
month in history for May.
April 22, 2008: Added info for Tim Hollis book signings
to main page. (added one more location 04/24/2008)
.
...also added update information for ABANDONED
FIVE POINTS WEST MALL & PIZITZ STORE
March 31, 2008: This
month in history for April.
March 6, 2008: Aaron Tanner's A
Centennial Tribute to Cora Saxon debuts.
February 29, 2008: This
month in history for March
January 31, 2008: This
month in history for February ... also, REWOUND remembers Valentines
of Yesteryear.
January 1, 2008: This
month in history for January. Also, debuted new title banners
(using color scheme of old Birmingham streetcars).
December 2, 2007: This
month in history for December.
October 31, 2007: This
month in history for November.
September 30, 2007: This
month in history for October.
September 2, 2007: This
month in history for September. Also, BIRMINGHAM REWOUND's Back-to-School
Special.
July 31, 2007: This
month in history for August.
July 25, 2007: Took "Memories"
section offline for future overhaul. Removed links from front page.
July 21, 2007: Added mention of
Ward McIntyre's passing to front page, with several pictures.
July 6, 2007: Updated and put Eastwood
Mall Remembered back online.
July 2, 2007: This
month in history for July.
June 1, 2007: This
month in history for June.
May 1, 2007: This
month in history for May.
April 17, 2007: Added scanned
image of late '60s Shoney's Big Boy/WAPI-TV matchbook from Greg Glenn.
April 1, 2007: This
month in history for April.
March 13, 2007: Unveiled
two new features: Roebuck
Plaza's 50th Anniversary and Rockin'
With Roddy
March 5, 2007: This
month in history for March.
February 2, 2007: This
month in history for February.
January 1, 2007: This
month in history for January.
December 13, 2006: Christmas
Past lives on! Two more Birmingham "retromercials" added to This
month in history
December 3, 2006: This
month in history for December, with three classic TV commercials for
the holidays.
Debuted new feature: a tribute to "Your
Album Station", K-99 (WVOK-FM; WRKK).
November 10, 2006: This
month in history for November.
October 6, 2006: This
month in history for October.
September 3, 2006: This
month in history for September; also newly
found snapshots from 1956 of the first Romper Room with "Miss
Jean" Pierce.
August 7, 2006: This
month in history begins.
July 3, 2006: New feature:
Showplaces
of the South by Tim Hollis.
June 18, 2006: Brand new
section: The Listening Room, with audio
clips to listen and enjoy.
June 1, 2006: Debuted
REWOUND on new webspace, birminghamrewound.com
... New section: Fun & Games ...
New feature: Cavalcade of logos
March 2006: New section
on Hill's Supermarket added. Added some
vintage radio pictures to the RADIO-TV page.
Also modified some text.
New page on '70s Birmingham
Top-40 Wars added. Added new picture to Five
Points West section (WAPI remote - great panoramic shot!)
Added newly-found picture of Birmingham's first Romper
Room teacher, Miss Jean, to the MAGIC
CITY KIDS' SHOWS section.
February 2006: Some changes to TV history text on RADIO-TV
page.
October 2005: New feature added: BIRMINGHAM:
THEN AND NOW
New "extra": BIRMINGHAM
TEEN CULTURE, 1967 ... small changes to ROADSIDE
... updates to RADIO & TV (info on color
TV in Birmingham)
August 2005: NEW UPDATES TO THE EASTWOOD
MALL SITE ... many, many new pictures added!
07/02/2005: Updates to SHERER'S
DRIVE-IN and ROADSIDE
05/30/2005: Special
section added:
"MAGIC
CITY KIDS' SHOWS"
04/24/2005: Small
update to Jack's Hamburgers (added early pic
of Sgt. Jack) .... New page added: BURGER
IN A HURRY
03/13/2005: Updated
BARGAIN
TOWN USA (many new pictures),
BARBER'S MILK,
RADIO
& TV (page 2)
New pages added: SHERER'S
DRIVE-IN, Joe Dentici on the WENN Radio
upheaval of 1976
02/13/2005: Updated Roadside,
Radio
& TV ... new page added:
Jack's Hamburgers
01/31/2005: Updated Retail
(BARBER'S MILK, PIZITZ,
BRUNO'S,
FIVE
POINTS WEST)
New page added: ABANDONED
FIVE POINTS WEST MALL & PIZITZ STORE
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