Let’s start with Emma Sansom in Gadsden. This 15- year-old girl directed the Civil War Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest to the spot where the Union Army was located so that they could be captured. This memorial was installed in 1907 but many locals have been trying to get this statue taken down for years:
This globe in Fort Payne was used as a Shriners’ storage building in Tampa. It was moved here sometime after 1989:
A detail from the former Coca-Cola bottling plant in Gadsden:
A long-abandoned Pan-Am gas station in Steele — in better days as Eva’s Truck Stop with a cafe, service bays, and possibly motel rooms for truckers on the 2nd floor:
and now:
The former White Palace Cafe in Gadsden from the 1930s:
The Madison County Courthouse in Huntsville from 1967:
A former Phillips 66 gas station in Gadsden:
This sign is in Huntsville and the business is still operating:
This drug store in Blountsville is also still operating:
A modern sign in Huntsville:
This sign in Gadsden. Apparently, the pestle is/was animated:
A Masonic Lodge sign in Fort Payne:
… and another one in Cullman:
This original, stained-glass sign is installed above office of this former Texaco in Gadsden. The building now houses a coffee shop:
There will be two more full days of Alabama before we return to Tennessee. I’ll be back soon with more.
Happy Trails,
dj & the dogs
