1928
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1928 was the 57th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.
Events
- June 7: The Little Garden Club was organized.
- August 3: The Birmingham Amateur Movie Association was founded.
- The community of Alden was built as a camp for workers at the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company's Flat Top Mine.
Business
- The Southern Natural Gas Corporation was founded.
- W. S. Edwards Sr, Mark Hodo and W. D. Phillips founded the Exchange-Security Bank.
- The architectural firm of Denham, Van Keuren & Denham split back into Denham & Denham and the E. B. Van Keuren & Co.
- WAPI-AM relocated from Auburn to Birmingham.
- The Birmingham Colored Golf & Country Club was incorporated.
- Marvin "Doc" Gilchrist opened Gilchrist Drug in Mountain Brook Village.
- Emmett Montgomery opened a hot dog stand that eventually grew into the Irondale Cafe.
- Irwin Koplon opened Irwin's Tie Shop.
- Hudson & Associates engineers was founded.
- Redmont Tire Company was incorporated.
Education
- Hall-Kent Elementary School opened.
- Holman School opened.
- Mountain Brook Elementary School opened.
- Wilson Elementary School opened.
Religion
- All Saints Episcopal Church was organized.
- Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church was founded.
- Unity of Birmingham was chartered.
Sports
Works
- The neon Barber's clock on the Shepherd-Sloss Building was erected.
- Miss Iwate, friendship doll
Buildings
- Hall-Kent Elementary School in Homewood
- Birmingham Fire Station No. 15 in Arlington-West End
- Drug Co. Building on 1st Avenue North
- Birmingham Southern Railroad freight depot on 14th Street North
- Dr Pepper Bottling Plant on 2nd Avenue South
- Easley Bridge over the Dub branch of Calvert Prong in Blount County
- East Lake Library on Oporto-Madrid Boulevard South
- Edgewood Elementary School lunchroom addition
- Edwards Motor Building on 3rd Avenue North
- Ensley School
- Fitzgerald Apartments on 19th Street South
- Gibson Elementary School addition
- Glen Iris Elementary School addition
- Hillman Hospital School of Nursing Residence and New Hillman Building on 7th Avenue South
- Holman School in Woodlawn Highlands
- Homewood Theatre
- Jackson Elementary School addition
- Maring Ford on 1st Avenue North
- Martin Biscuit Building on 2nd Avenue South
- Montevallo Mining Co. Store at Aldrich
- Mountain Brook Elementary School
- Mountain Brook Model Estate on Mountain Brook Parkway
- Munger Building at Five Points South
- Munger Hall at Birmingham-Southern College
- Newton Manor apartments on 20th Street South
- Parisian building on 3rd Avenue North
- Protective Life building on 1st Avenue North
- Ruthlon Apartments on 33rd Street South
- Shepherd-Sloss Building at Five Points South
- St Clement Catholic Church in Woodlawn
- Trinity United Methodist Church in Edgewood
- Watts Building on 20th Street North
- Wilson Elementary School in Bush Hills
- Ground was broken for Hunter Street Baptist Church's sanctuary building
Demolitions
Individuals
Births
- January 16: Ezra Sims, composer
- January 30: Dorothy Love Coates, gospel singer
- February 2: Frank Adams, jazz musician, bandleader and educator
- March 10: James Earl Ray, murderer
- March 15: Demetrius Newton, Alabama State Representative
- March 19: John Buchanan Jr, Baptist minister and U.S. Representative
- May 4: Francis Bryant, custom home builder
- June 1: Paul R. Jones, federal official and art collector
- June 25: Jim Houston Day, optometrist
- July 2: Tex Ellison, restaurateur
- July 7: Dennis Washburn, food writer and publisher
- July 30: Joe Nuxhall, Major League pitcher and sports announcer
- August 3: Tom Jernigan, founder of Marathon Corporation
- August 10: Simpson Pepper, educator, coach and sports announcer
- August 10: David Vann, Mayor of Birmingham
- August 16: James Myers, minister and educator
- August 28: Ed Salem, football player and restaurateur
- September 10: Thornton Dial, artist
- September 20: Jack Edwards, attorney and U.S. Representative
- September 25: Vic Gold, attorney and author
- September 26: Al Lary, Major League pitcher
- October 7: Abraham Woods Jr, minister and Civil Rights activist
- October 26: Albert Brewer, Governor of Alabama
- December 8: Charles Alford, infectious disease specialist
- December 17: George Lindsey, actor
- Yaacov Agam, Israeli artist
- Bill Bolen, newscaster
- Tom Bradley, chief of the Hoover Fire Department
- Joseph Braswell, interior designer
- Tommy "T. Buff" Buffington, advertising character
- Aldrich Gunn, Birmingham City Councilor
- Ethel Hall, educator and Alabama State Board of Education member
- Jim Hillhouse, architect
- William James, Catholic priest
- Betty Jensen, Birmingham Police sergeant
- Bill Lumpkin, sportswriter and newspaper editor
- Roscoe Robinson, gospel and soul singer
Deaths
- January 25: Henry Higginbotham, mine laborer
- March 19: Robert A. Morris, Jefferson County auditor
- May 6: Myrtle Bicknell, "The Four-Legged Girl", circus freak
- July 3: Jack Bethea, newspaper reporter and novelist
- August 25: James Bowron, TCI and Gulf States Steel executive
- September 7: Richard McNally, attorney and first boy born in Birmingham
- December 14: Jesse Huey, namesake of Hueytown
- December 17: George Eubank, dentist
- Frank Nelson Jr, founder of Empire Coal Co.
- See also: List of Birmingham homicides in 1928
Context
In 1928
___ won Best Picture at the first Academy Awards while Gold Diggers of Broadway, Sunnyside Up, The Cock-Eyed World, Welcome Danger, and The Desert Song were the top-grossing films. Warner Baxter and George Arliss took the Best Actor awards and Mary Pickford was Best Actress. Books published in 1929 included The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen, and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
Notable births in 1928 included
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