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Farrington Bridge
It could be said that Main Street either begins or ends with the Farrington Bridge. The bridge over Shoal Creek just below the Montevallo...
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Dec 31, 20181 min read
J. P. Kelly's Family Home
The house behind the new City Hall where Christopher Smitherman has his law practice was owned and occupied by the Kelly family in the...
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Dec 30, 20182 min read
Deluxe Cleaners
The spot on the high bluff overlooking the Farrington Bridge over Shoal Creek on Main Street has been an important center for commerce,...
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Dec 29, 20182 min read
Montevallo City Hall & Volunteer Fire Department's 1960 Open House
Montevallo Jail - approx. 1915 We know that Montevallo's first jail was located on the bluff over Shoal Creek and that the seat of city...
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Dec 28, 20182 min read
Montevallo Motors/Victory Auto Building
The building commonly known today as the old Victory Auto building that stands on the northwest corner of Main and Shelby Streets got its...
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Montevallo #TBT
Dec 27, 20181 min read
Victorian Homes
Well into the 1950’s, Montevallo had a number of large, two and three-story Victorian-style houses along Main Street as well as in the...
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Dec 26, 20181 min read
Coca Cola Warehouse
The building in the bottom photo can be easily seen today on Shelby Street, just off Main Street. It was originally constructed as a...
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Dec 25, 20181 min read
Mr. Rogan's Mortuary & Paper Boys
Rogan's Furniture Store occupied the first floor of the two story building on the corner of Main and Shelby Streets for most of the 20th...
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Montevallo #TBT
Dec 24, 20182 min read
Mr. Rogan's Store
Rogan’s store, which operated in the handsome two-story building on the corner of Main and Shelby Streets, dates back to the very early...
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Montevallo #TBT
Dec 23, 20181 min read
P.D.D. Pendleton's Jewelry and Watch Repair
The old Rogan building that we have been focused on for a couple of weeks is remembered primarily for F.W. Rogan's furniture store, but...
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Montevallo #TBT
Dec 22, 20182 min read
The Strand Theatre: In the Days Before TV....
As you can see from the photo, although looking quite different today, the building next door to Rogan’s furniture store was Montevallo’s...
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Montevallo #TBT
Dec 21, 20181 min read
The Strand Theatre: "The Home of Good Shows"
The Strand Theatre was not the first “Picture Show” in Montevallo, but the Watson family, who owned and operated the popular local...
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Montevallo #TBT
Dec 20, 20181 min read
The Strand Theatre & the Watson Family
Eddie Watson and his mother were the entrepreneurs and dreamers who built and operated a modern, first-class movie theatre that opened on...
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Dec 19, 20183 min read
Electricity Comes to Montevallo
The Alabama Power Company established a Montevallo District in the early twentieth century and served the multi-county district’s...
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Dec 18, 20182 min read
McCulley’s Food Store
Prior to 1960 when the first true supermarket came to Montevallo, there were five small grocery or mercantile stores on Main Street...
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Montevallo #TBT
Dec 17, 20182 min read
Merchants & Planters Bank
In 2018, the old Merchants & Planters Bank building became Montevallo’s source for a different kind of “dough” when La Conchita Bakery...
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Dec 16, 20181 min read
Meroney House
Most people who lived in Montevallo in the mid-20th century remember the handsome retail building next to the bank as Klotzman’s store....
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Dec 15, 20182 min read
Klotzman's
The Klotzman brothers, Sam and Joe, came to Montevallo from West Blocton and opened a dry goods store in the former C.L. Meroney building...
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Dec 14, 20181 min read
Red’s Bobher & Beauty Shoppe
Stanley M. “Red” Mahan opened his barber and beauty shop in 1927 in the space next door to what would later become the Strand Theatre....
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Montevallo #TBT
Dec 13, 20181 min read
Mahan and Kendrick Combine
Red Mahan and the Klotzman family were across-the-street neighbors on Main Street for many years. (Clockwise from top) Harry Klotzman and...
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