VINTAGE ALBANY- Albany “Firsts”
Tweet Left first airmail flight December 28, 1911; Upper right Thornwell H. Andrews, of Charlotte, N.C. in the cockpit of a 1911 Curtis biplane. This photo was taken in June of 1932, two years before his death. Lower right; first airmail stamp. Albany has had many “firsts” over the decades. Journal [...]
Read More →VINTAGE ALBANY: African-Americans in 1800’s Albany
Tweet People often have pre-conceived ideas about historical periods, thanks in part to Hollywood. However history is at its best when it is presented on a smaller more personal level, the history of real people in real towns dealing with what seem to most of us, extraordinary circumstances. Life in 1800’s Albany would [...]
Read More →VINTAGE ALBANY: The Chehaw Massacre
Tweet The Creek War, also called the Red Sticks War, lasted from 1813 to 1814. During this time many of the Upper Creek (Muscogee) had been moving southward from Alabama and Georgia into the open territories in Florida. A civil war between the creek themselves began. The “Red Sticks”, Upper Creek, allied themselves with [...]
Read More →Vintage Albany: When Hollywood came to town
Tweet Hollywood discovered Albany many decades before Sherwood Baptist Church and Sherwood Pictures began making the movies in 2002 that have since helped put Albany on the map. One of the first films made in Albany was in 1927, titled “Pardners”, it was a film produced by the American Forestry Association [...]
Read More →Vintage Albany: Turner Field WWII POW Camp
Tweet The United States had control of around five million POW’s by the end of WWII. Of that number about 400,000 German POW’s were housed within the US. Most of the prisoners were spread out across the south. It was easier to house them in the south because of the milder weather; also America [...]
Read More →Vintage Albany: Camp Churchman
Tweet Editor’s note: This is the first Vintage Albany column, a continuation and expansion of our popular Vintage Albany photo feature. This will not normally be found on our front page, but we hope you will continue to enjoy it. Tensions between the US and Spain had been growing strong ever since the [...]
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Tweet This photo was taken in May 1934 of Thelma McPhail and Dulce Duckwortle as they pose in vintage fire fighter uniforms in front of steam fire engine, Albany, Georgia. From the Vintage Albany, Georgia Facebook collection. Coming in next week’s Albany Journal: Vintage Albany the column!
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Tweet This photo is of the Arrington Family get together on July 4, 1915 at Blue Springs in Albany. Blue Springs was originally named Skywater by the native-Americans. It was later named Radium Springs in 1925, around the time the old Casino was built because of trace elements of radium detected in the water. [...]
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Tweet This photo was taken of a parlor inside the old Victorian version of The New Albany Hotel on Pine in 1904. The hotel was later replaced with the current building which is now called Albany Heights. This is one of many historic photos found on the Facebook group, Vintage Albany, Georgia.
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Tweet This undated photo shows the Skeet shooting complex at Radium Springs. The photo was submitted to the Facebook group Vintage Albany, Georgia and was part of the Mary Alford Faulk Photo collection.
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