A few historical sights around Montgomery, Alabama, and a few Thursday doors:
While this home looks interesting, what I thought interesting was that the two upstairs doors are working and having usable balconies. Considering the age of the home, that’s rare.
According to historical records, the building (current image) below is the location that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. planned the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
This building (a current image), “Located at High and Jackson streets, the four-story Ben Moore offered lodging, a safe place for meetings and a vibrant social life free from the bigotry and hostilities of the Southern white racism of the 1950s and ’60s. Even today in the basement is an evocative barbershop full of civil rights-era news pictures and portraits, including one of its most famous customers, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., when he lived in the now-restored parsonage just yards up Jackson Street.” (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/travel/hotels/2004-04-19-ben-moore_x.htm)
Right across the street from/next to the Ben Moore Hotel…(also a current image)
This is just a few doors down from that building, an amazing house or building, which I couldn’t yet find anything about. I know that major remodeling was started a few years ago, and so much work was done I expected to see it fully restored to its former glory. But that seemed to stop suddenly, and at this level of remodel in the photo, it actually looks much better than it did. I also could not find out anything online about ‘Metro’, the last image below, I’ll have to ask around to find out.
-Word- pictures by DLink 
Wow thanks Debbie for a great history lesson! 😀
I love your photography! Do you mind if i ask…How long have you been taking photos etc, what first got you interested in taking photos? 😀
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Some I have posted on my About page, but not all. I have to add more of the story. Which is, I was painting Bible verses in watercolor, for about the past 8 or 9 years. All of those years I was frustrated that I couldn’t ‘write’very well in watercolor paint
(it’s difficult) I was driven by a desire to get God’s word out of the Bible and onto the wall, for everyone to see. I thought how can I accomplish this!? I thought, I can put the verses on pictures. Then I thought, where am I going to get pictures ? Then I thought, ROME! I had, by chance, gone to Rome about a year before, had about 500 images that I had done nothing with, because I could think of nothing to do with them ( I only had a small basic camera I bought hesitantly just for the Rome trip) . So the Rome trip was Sep 2015, and all of this technically started about August 2016. I went through some very quick learning about how to get text onto my own images-I never use any others, except a few from family and a neighbor 🙂 I bought a better camera, just so I could do this. So it’s only been a few months. But my dad was a photographer, and so all of the basics I needed to know I already knew about photography, just catching bits and pieces from him when I was very young. I still have a lot to learn, and I want to improve so more people will be interested. But the Bible verses are really the ‘picture’, my photo is really just the backdrop. But unlike a lot of similar types of work I see, in my opinion, God’s word is the height of excellence, there is nothing more excellent, so the images need to be the best that they possibly can be-they need to honor those words of God.
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Hi Debbie! I love the way your thoughts ran away and you followed them with a few work-arounds. Reminds me of myself and how i have to do things. lol. 😀
It’s nice to hear about how your Dad was interested in Photography, and that helped inspire you too and gave you some knowledge to start using your amazing photos for God’s Mighty Word…i’m loving how you do this!
This blog is a true blessing, God bless you Debbie. 😀
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I hope it blesses many, and is used as much as God can use it. God bless you as well.
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Thanks so much for your comments, and your very kind words, as always Steve!
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Some great shots in this collection and a wonderful history lesson too – nicely done 🙂
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Thanks very much!
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Fantastic doors post. I love the black and white that you featured. Well done.
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Thank you for your very kind comments!
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B&W is just right for the tie-in with history. I like that first house. It’s really well-kept.
janet
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I turned them into B&W exactly for that reason-it just seemed to fit better. There are so many houses here that are similar, so many that I think people don’t really notice them. I’ll post some more of those soon so you can see what I mean, if you stop back by. I’ll submit them in Norm’s Thursday Doors probably in two weeks. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised 🙂 Thank you for your kind comments!
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Thank you!
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It’s definitely great to see some of the historical sites still there standing for us to see…. a building, a place, an area, or an item could tell us a lot about history. It’s great to see a glimpse of history through your photos and Montgomery, Alabama definitely holds a lot of historical events there!
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There is more, it takes awhile to get everything onto the blog-I’ll keep presenting the info until I’ve covered at least the things of highest importance. I haven’t even started on the slave trading period yet, mainly because it sickens me everytime I read the historic markers. I notice that a lot of it isn’t talked about here-I think because a lot of it is so bad. It’s important to remember, regardless. Thanks for stopping by and for your great comments 🙂
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You have really great historical information in your post. I really look forward to see more about the slave trading period in your upcoming posts! It’s definitely hard to see how some parts of history not mentioned more often, it’s important to cover all aspects of historical perspectives. These little parts of the story makes up the big picture of history. It was great reading your post!
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Thanks very much for the comments and for reading. More info asap! I hope you holidays are wonderful 🙂
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