"Mobile and Mardi Gras are made for each other! In fact the first New World's Mardi Gras celebration was held in Mobile. A full week of colorful, exciting parades and balls are found throughout the city during the celebration week held every year...
"Erected by the people of Mobile and dedicated January 23, 1902 to commemorate the settlement of the original site of Mobile at Twenty-seven Mile Bluff, Alabama River."
"Duncan Place, Mobile, Alabama, showing in the foreground a portrait statue of Admiral Raphael Semmes, U.S. Navy. In the background is typical architecture of the French period in Mobile." The monument was erected in 1900.
"The Sea Ranch, Mobile's newest and most modern restaurant. Located on U.S. Highway 90 overlooking Mobile Bay, it is famous throughout the South for its Gulf fresh sea foods, Southern fried chicken and sizzling steaks. Guests may dine in cool...
"Volunteer Defense Firemen in Mobile have been training for the real thing and Auxiliary Fire Company 10-A pictured above are the proud winners of a contest conducted by the Mobile County Council of Defense. The coveted prize was $25.00 in cash...
"Mobile is the most important centre in the South as regards the exportation of lumber and timber, shipments being made to every country in the world. In close proximity to the base of supplies, there are 30 saw mills in operation with a cutting...
"An interesting sight, the Mobile River with its river boats, bay boats, barges, and the mosquito fleet of motor boats and occasionally steamships or sailing schooners from abroad docked at the modern concrete piers, constructed by the State of...
"This view shows the Mobile River span of the Cochrane Bridge across the headwaters of Mobile Bay. The total length of this bridge is 10.7 miles and it is an important link in the Old Spanish Trail between Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida....
Mrs. Boone, 100 year-old resident of Mobile, tells how her family was the only family in a small rural Alabama area that did not contract the flu during the 1918 flu outbreak. Mrs. Boone's family all became responders in her community. Her parents...
In the letter Hurter describes voter registration in Mobile: "We have registered all who have come forward without any delay. There has been a strong disposition on the part of the whites not to register but they are gradually overcoming that...
This article compares street car ordinances in Mobile and New Orleans: "Of the two the Mobile law seems to be the best, for it does not require the making of separate compartments in the cars, but simply that white passengers shall be seated in the...
This article reports that African Americans in Mobile are still boycotting street railroads to protest a new segregation ordinance; it also mentions that "several cases of negroes being reviled for riding on the cars have been reported."
This article reports that the president of the Mobile Light and Railroad Company is challenging the new city ordinance requiring white and African American passengers to be seated in separate sections on street cars. His company is having trouble...