BAMA MAMMOTHS

"Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear more sweet than all the landscape smiling near?

'Tis enchantment to the view and robes the mountain in its azure hue." Thomas Campbell https://allpoetry.com/poem/8458085-Hope-by-Thomas-Campbell

2609 University Boulevard https://www.google.com/maps/@33.2089595,-87.5715529,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPSfMlmGICUzYkjR9CqJRRA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

You will see my red-roofed home on the left side of the image on the above link. As you use the "ROTATE THE VIEW" icon on the lower right of the image, a left click points you west toward downtown and the University. The bridge over the Warrior is to the left. Across from Pake Realty is the HOME 2 SUITES BY HILTON. Our neighborhood was once gorgeous old houses all the way east to the Capitol Park but all that on the north side of University Boulevard has recently been replaced by high rises.

At the Corner of the 2600 block of University Boulevard

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.208718,-87.5708982,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skEpMIqq2nPzXiYCq3i_gVA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

The image on the above link is looking north toward the Warrior River Bridge. A left click on the "ROTATE THE VIEW" icon points you to my backyard which is a beauty shop's parking lot. This gives ya an idea of my neighborhood.

The roof to my house is obscured by trees on the upper right margin of this image but you can see what's just across the street from my house: an amphitheater, a riverside park and the site new Saban Center. https://sabancenter.org/

So how 'bout those memories of MOBILE ALABAMA in the spring of 1968!

The headquarters was the BATTLE HOUSE (lots of Tuscaloosa history going back 150 years connected to that hotel on Royal Street in Mobile). They've restored the original lobby.

https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/mobbr-the-battle-house-renaissance-mobile-hotel-and-spa/photos/

One of my most vivid memories of the '68 Alabama Interact Convention was the craziness which occurred in that hotel Saturday night after we made it back from our drunken private room party in the Flamingo Lounge which was around the corner from the Battle House.

The butt of the Junior Class Joke that night was Gus Chambers. The joke was supposed to be on Gus but it backfired and came down on somebody else to his ETERNAL EMBARRASSMENT.