Talk:Red Cross Building
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I'm pretty sure when I was growing up, the Red Cross name and logo were still left painted on a building adjacent to the Stonewall Building, in the 2300 block of 4th Avenue N. Looking at Google maps, it appears to no longer be there. Just FYI. --Lkseitz 12:18, 13 February 2011 (PST)
- You could be right. I know I remember going with my mom to THIS building and filling up on Nutter Butters and coke in their refreshment area while they tapped her for blood. Then we'd go to the Army-Navy store and I'd look through the old patches and handgrenade shells. --Dystopos 15:40, 13 February 2011 (PST)
- Same here, I had to go to this building to donate white blood cells to a family friend when I was a late teenager (say around 1989-1991). --Wheresdib 16:59, 13 February 2011 (PST)
- Oh, this will always be the Red Cross Building for me, as we passed it twice every time we picked my father up from work when I was little. Looking at Google Earth's historic photos, it appears the other, older building I was referring to was torn down between October 2005 and June 2006. --Lkseitz 12:29, 14 February 2011 (PST)
- Same here, I had to go to this building to donate white blood cells to a family friend when I was a late teenager (say around 1989-1991). --Wheresdib 16:59, 13 February 2011 (PST)
Not 1975
My father says the News got the date wrong in that article. He says the building was already there when he started working at the Post-Herald, one block away, in 1967. He also says it was home to the Social Security Administration prior to completion of their 1974 building. So perhaps 1975 is when the Red Cross moved into it and someone at the News mistook that as the date it was built. I found the realtor's page for the building, but it has a blank where the building's construction date should be. --Lkseitz 20:12, 16 February 2011 (PST)
- Looks like it's in the same building that housed the Lucky Strike Bowling Alley, and was resurfaced with stone cladding when it was modernized. (photo). I started that stub from some undated tourist pamphlet I still have tucked away somewhere. But Lucky Strike shows up at 2117 3rd Avenue N in a 1945 phone directory online (link) --Dystopos 21:15, 16 February 2011 (PST)
- Updated both articles with information from an article by Stan Diel in February 24's Birmingham News. The bowling alley was adjacent, and is now a parking lot. A sign for the bowling alley was discovered when a thief pried off part of the 1970s stone facade. --Wheresdib 07:53, 27 March 2011 (PDT)