Gulf Shores wasn't a booming beach town in the 1950s. There were no condominiums or souvenir shops. Despite the lack of things to see, the beach area was growing. According to the Birmingham News, the ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - 2014 is proving to be one of the safest years in Birmingham's history. At least when it comes to murder. The city's homicide rate for the first half of the year dropped by more ...

It was a vision of the future – how town planners in the 1950s envisaged the bomb-wrecked city of Birmingham would be rebuilt. The fascinating insight has been revealed with the reprint of two books ...

Tributes have been paid to a woman credited with raising awareness about the dangers of polio following the death of her footballer husband. Dawn Clements urged people to get vaccinated after the ...

When he was just a 10-year-old Birmingham kid, Jim Auker got a coveted Atomic Bomb Ring for the bargain price of 15 cents and a cereal box top. He eventually lost his toy promoted on the Lone Ranger ...

The Fifties were a decade that was mainly focused on the recovery from World War Two with Birmingham being far from an attractive place with slum housing conditions being visible across the city. It ...