Weekly Instagram spotlight on best Bham skyline pics, without RAIN
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Hello there city view, we’ve missed you…
Been so long since we have seen the skyline without a veil of rain. We really do have a nice city here, and some cool Instagrammers. Take a look…are your posts featured?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSbt6jOhhyW6aVFGd29KQNlU72uMqfIwDvR7ig0/?hl=en&taken-by=collinbalentine
Although Hernando De Soto journeyed through Alabama in 1540, the area around Birmingham wasn’t settled until about 1813
https://www.instagram.com/p/BfbC69WguSZ/?hl=en&tagged=birmingham
Birmingham was named after Birmingham, UK. recently British network BBC published a roundup titled “10 British Things About Birmingham, Alabama.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BdCE8Ktj9WS/?hl=en&taken-by=thejcpeterson
Downtown’s Kirklin Clinic was designed by noted architect I.M. Pei, the man behind the National Gallery of Art’s East Building and Paris’ Grand Louvre.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BfcXDLxhKJd/?hl=en&taken-by=southsidepurveyor
The city of Birmingham underwent two separate prohibitions. Jefferson County banned the sale of alcohol from 1908 to 1911, and a 1915 statewide law rendered the state totally dry up until 1937—four years after the Twenty-first Amendment ended nationwide prohibition.
One of early Birmingham’s unsung heroes: a prostitute by the name of Louise Wooster, who helped convert the town’s brothels into clinics and nurse citizens back to health during the deadly 1873 cholera epidemic. A few years later, she opened her own brothel and amassed considerable wealth—large amounts of which she donated to charity.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BfFQh2yAApg/?hl=en&tagged=luremeinbham
The multi-colored dance floor at The Club in Birmingham was director John Badham’s inspiration for the flashy set-up in Saturday Night Fever.
The city’s Red Mountain Park, a 1200-acre public space, is one of the biggest urban parks in the country and a full 40 percent bigger than New York City’s Central Park.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bb0rl7DHGBV/?hl=en&taken-by=jayee1219
Keep a lookout every Wednesday!
Hey and let us know what Bham Instagrammers you follow…they might be featured here next week.
