July 1956

Notice that "It's Nice to Have You in Birmingham"
was still a few years away. 



 "Thanks to the Interstate highway system, it's possible to go from one part of this country to another without seeing a thing."  --Charles Kuralt


A brand name once associated with
Hank Williams, Sr. on his WSM Radio show in the late '40s:





That's an awful weird TV set the dog is trying to watch...

(ABOVE)
Rebels with and/or without causes (BELOW)

Speaking of Tommy Charles.....







Wow.   Back when "creditor" and "trust" were together in the same sentence.




A quaint practice ... in many smaller towns the local merchants closed their shops for Wednesday afternoon into the 1990s!

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