Pool Hall Photos From All Over.
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Reading my iPad before sleep. I see one picture in the article, original and colorized.
Davis Avenue Pool Hall, 1939
Do you recognize anyone from this photo taken at Jim’s Billiards on Davis Avenue?mobilebaymag.com
I lack the talent/ability to post just the picture. If someone will fix it, let me know and I will delete this post. Thanks.
If I wasn’t in bed already, I could post them in less than 10 minutes. If they’re not posted by 7:30 AM CDT tomorrow, I’ll grab them and post.
The article is from Mobile Bay Magazine.
The picture is a single picture with a slider in the middle. Slide right and you get the original black & white photo. Slide left and you get the colorized version.
PICTURE WITH SLIDER
ORIGINAL BLACK & WHITE
COLORIZED VERSION
The article is from
MOBILE BAY MAGAZINE
A group of men pose inside Jim’s Billiards on Davis Avenue in Mobile, 1939. Davis Avenue, ironically named for the one-time president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, was a well-known thoroughfare in the heart of Mobile’s black community. In 1986, the street was renamed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.
Do you recognize anyone in this picture, or do you know anything about Jim’s Billiards? Let us know! Email ahartin@pmtpublishing.com.
Photo courtesy of Wilma B. Dixie, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama | Colorization by Dynamichrome Limited.
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Beautiful. Tremendous job. Many, many thanks, Korsakoff. As promised, I have deleted my recent post, plus an earlier one from 2022. This one is so far superior.
In the '70s, Davis Avenue, or more simply "the Ave", was one very bad place.
In the '70s, Davis Avenue, or more simply "the Ave", was one very bad place.
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