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Alabama Coaches Co. on Main Street – Part 2
In the first few years after Alabama Coaches Co. began operating out of their new terminal on Main Street, transportation in the state...
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Oct 10, 20184 min read
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Alabama Coaches Building on Main Street – Part 3
As the Alabama Coach Co. business went into a shell in the 1950’s, the Town House restaurant associated with it, which was located on the...
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Oct 9, 20183 min read
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The Elliott Corner
The southeast corner of the intersection of Main and North Boundary Streets was referred to as “the Elliott Corner” in the April 3, 1958...
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Oct 8, 20182 min read
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Elliott’s Grocery Store
Unlike the practice of the other numerous grocery stores in Montevallo during the mid-twentieth century, there is scant evidence that...
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Oct 7, 20183 min read
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The Ups and Downs of a Vacant Lot
It’s interesting and perhaps a bit ironic that the lot on Main Street that was cleared in 2017 so it could become the open space for...
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Oct 6, 20183 min read
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More Vacant Lots
The area between the Regions Bank Drive-through and KFC on Main Street (actually two full lots) is being used today for driveways and...
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Oct 5, 20183 min read
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Jolly Cholly
While we are accustomed to Main Street being home to a string of businesses all the way to Montevallo High School, both sides of the...
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Oct 4, 20183 min read
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A Residential Legacy
As we continue to make our way east on Main Street, it’s interesting to note the residential legacy of the three lots across the street...
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Oct 3, 20182 min read
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In the Curve
Two Montevallo historians, Judge E.S. Lyman writing in 1908 and Miss Eloise Meroney in 1977, both tell the story about how Main Street,...
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Oct 2, 20183 min read
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Main Street between Bloch and Wadsworth
Well into the mid-twentieth century, both sides of Main Street between Bloch and Wadsworth Streets, which intersect Main from the north,...
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Oct 1, 20182 min read
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End of the Line
Before any businesses came to the area just past the Housing Authority complex, which is known today as the “Village on Valley,” the...
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Sep 30, 20182 min read
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