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Left to right, top to bottom.
The azaleas are beautiful.
St Patrick's day is done, but I honored "The Big Fellow"
bet Mary Lois hung out here
Lucasson's grocery used t0 be here .
"W, The President" stickers are prevalent on the SUVs here
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Yup, the pictures say it pretty well. As to all those stars -- did you know the title of my second Fairhope book is When We Had the Sky?
Sorry to hear Buddy Richmond died. He had been headed that way for several years. I have some good memories of him.
Friends are taking over Theater 98 these days; one directing The Trip To Bountiful and working on Dear Departed, and the other will direct Quilters later in the season.
Can't believe nobody was in Gambino's...you'll have to try the Kareoke room and see. Have fun. I know there are a lot more bars in Fairhope than there used to be.
Well, Elmer, all of us locals are not of W persuasion; the ones who have sense. As for me , I'm a yellow dog D. and Alabamian to the core. Our town is and always been
peopled by non-Alabamians, Michiganites mostly. All good peoplebut determined to change a nice place into a place like they deserted...of late,they have succeeded. Mary Lois' departure can be associated with the changes brought down and in by the "newveau" of Fairhope.
One of the good things is still Theatre98. Thanks for the photo!
See more at www.theatre98.org .
The City has granted a new storage/shop building that will adjoin the old church known as Theatre98. The website has a nice history. It just so happens that the "sandwich" sign advertised auditions for "The Trip to Bountiful" held the night dated on the photo. The mud tracked lawn bears witness to eminent construction of our new building. Is too bad Maey Lois bugged out so soon, she may have been Carrie Watts.
I hope you do not miss the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education while in town. And the Bell Building on the Faulkner campus downtown. There is also a dandy museum between Fairhope Ave and Magnolia in the heart of old Fairhope.Eat a mullet dinner , too.
Maybe , too, you might notice the
inscribed brick that lines the sidewalks, each bought to promote the quaintness that Fairhope is supposed to be about, or was.
Mary Lois' book describes many of the unique individuals who brought
the town to the 2oth Century and beyond.
Come see a show at Theatre98.
I know not all residents are of the W persuasion, a friend I was visiting has a “Proud to be a Democrat” bumper sticker and amazingly enough he has a next door neighbor with a “War is not the Answer” sign in his front yard. I‘m guessing maybe 75% of the population could be considered strongly republican.
I passed by the Organic School at the new (new to me) location off of South Section.
I didn’t manage to get by the museum at the site of the old police station.
I didn’t have a mullet dinner, but I did have shrimp & oysters at Market By the Bay on Greeno Road. Pretty good food at a pretty good price. I would love to have had some mullet, but you know that it has to be same day fresh, otherwise, it’s just not very tasty.
I took my sister to dinner for a wonderful meal at The Colony Grill. Service was excellent and my rack of lamb entree was very tasty.
We had another meal at a place in Daphne called Cousin Vinney’s. We ate at the bar so I could follow the NCAA action. I guess the food was OK, but the bartender’s desultory service is what I remember most. I won’t be going back there again.
Yep, Fairhope is no longer quaint, but I still remember when back on the day, shops downtown closed on Thursday afternoon.
It ain’t the same, but I’m already looking forward to my next visit. I hope it won’t be
another two years.
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