Narrative Point of View

It is so cold here today

that even the mannequin is bundled up for warmth.

A rather fierce Art Deco detail from a doorway on the Jefferson County Courthouse (1929), downtown Birmingham, Alabama.

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Ghost town between Silverton and Ouray, along the Million Dollar Highway.

View of the pediment above the main entrance to the Age-Herald building (1920), Birmingham, AL.

Originally posted January 24, 2005

Downtown Birmingham, Alabama. It’s the narrowest little place in the world, tucked into a space that was once a shared staircase between the two buildings that flank it: Pete’s Famous Hot Dogs.

You open the door, which takes up almost the entire front of the building, and you go inside. There’s the grill and the counter on the right, the wall on the left, and just enough room for an average-size person in the middle. Behind the counter are Gus and Kathy, dispensing hot dogs and soft drinks in bottles.

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This fine feathered wise guy graces the former Birmingham Age-Herald building, downtown Birmingham, Alabama.

Originally posted January 13th, 2005

A few blocks from my house, in a 1960s-era neighborhood that I pass through on the way to the grocery store, sits an unassuming house that holds a mystery.

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