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Albright Building – Part 2
Following a prosperous eleven year residence in the Albright building and escaping the “close call” of a nearly disastrous basement fire...
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Oct 29, 20182 min read
Whaley Shopping Center – Part 1
Following more than 50 successful years in the furniture business, with stores in four different cities in Central Alabama, R.E. Whaley...
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Oct 28, 20182 min read
Whaley Shopping Center – Part 2
Following a year or so of successful occupancy and operations in the first phase of the shopping center, construction resumed in 1963 on...
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Oct 27, 20183 min read
Whaley Shopping Center – Part 3
The Main Street side of the Whaley Shopping Center was the last phase to be completed. The display windows of the Montevallo Drug Company...
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Oct 26, 20183 min read
U.S. Post Office – Part 1
The lot where the Montevallo Post Office has been located since 1937, at the northeast corner of Main and Vine Streets, was previously...
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Oct 25, 20183 min read
U.S. Post Office – Part 2
Montevallo has the distinction of being one of about 25 Alabama towns that were selected by the United States Treasury Department’s...
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Oct 24, 20184 min read
Masonic Building – Part 1
Across Main Street from the Post Office at the southeast corner of Main and Vine Streets is a building that is not all that remarkable in...
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Oct 23, 20183 min read
Masonic Building – Part 2
In 1926, the O.P. Ivie Motor Co. moved into the street level floor of the newly constructed Masonic Building as its first tenant. Ivie...
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Oct 22, 20185 min read
Masonic Building – Part 3
Walter C. Weems relocated his insurance agency from the street level space of the Masonic Building in 1948 to a basement office in the...
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Oct 21, 20181 min read
Modern Beauty Shop
The first advertising evidence of the Modern Beauty Shop as an active business in Montevallo ran in the Montevallo Times in 1937. They...
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Oct 20, 20182 min read
Montevallo Businessman and Entrepreneur, George Kroell
We have encountered George Kroell (most often pronounced "kuh-rell") in previous installments of Throwback Thursday as the prominent...
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Oct 19, 20182 min read
The Hotel St. George
The St. George Hotel was opened on September 1, 1897 by Montevallo businessman and entrepreneur, George Kroell. It was situated directly...
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Oct 18, 20183 min read
Change Comes to Kroell’s
The passage of time and the introduction of modern conveniences certainly had their effect on George Kroell’s businesses and his family....
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Oct 17, 20182 min read
Montevallo Grocery Co.
Upon relocating the headquarters of his various businesses to the Kroell building in 1932 and getting his Montevallo Grocery Co....
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Oct 16, 20183 min read
Kroell/Brown Building Fire Aftermath
Following the fire that decimated the Montevallo Grocery Co. building on Main Street in 1946, J. A. Brown retreated to the brick store...
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Oct 15, 20183 min read
The Ford Dealership on Main – Part 1
George Kroell’s death in 1925 happened at the same time as the sounding of the death knell for his lucrative Livery Stable and horse...
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Oct 14, 20183 min read
The Ford Dealership on Main – Part 2
We introduced you to W.E. “Bill” Lovelady a few months back when we were exploring the businesses on Middle Street (see the entry on the...
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Oct 13, 20184 min read
Main Street Novelty Shop
We have previously established that when the St. George Hotel was still standing, its close neighbor to the west was the minuscule Modern...
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Oct 12, 20182 min read
The Mitchell Building
The Dollar Saver building was actually called the Mitchell Building, named for its owner, Dr. W. J. Mitchell, who had a dental practice...
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Oct 11, 20182 min read
Alabama Coaches Co. on Main Street – Part 1
If you have been following “Throwback Thursday” for the past several months, you’ll recall an earlier installment that explored the early...
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