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*** 2901: former location of [[Little Professor Book Center]]
*** 2901: former location of [[Little Professor Book Center]]
*** 2909: [[O'Carr's]]
*** 2909: [[O'Carr's]]
*** 2913: [[Salem's Diner]]
* [[Reese Street]] intersection (west only)
* [[Reese Street]] intersection (west only)
** West side:
** West side:
*** 2910: former location of [[Home Grown Special Foods]]
*** 2900: [[Silver Locket]]
*** 2904: [[Three Sheets: A Linen Shop]]
*** 2906: [[a.k.a. Girl Stuff]]
*** 2910: [[Four Seasons]] (formerly [[Home Grown Special Foods]])
*** 2916: [[Savage's Bakery]]
*** 2918: [[Sikes Shoe Company|Jack N' Jill Shop]]
*** 2918: [[Sikes Shoe Company|Jack N' Jill Shop]]
*** 2920: [[Sikes Shoe Company|Sikes' Children's Shoes]]
*** 2920: [[Sikes Shoe Company|Sikes' Children's Shoes]]
** East side:
** East side:
*** 2913: [[Salem's Diner]]
*** 2921: [[At Home]]
*** 2923: former location of [[Feeny Sales]]
*** 2923: former location of [[Feeny Sales]]
*** 2927: [[Seibels]]
*** 2931: [[Hair Group]]
* [[Oxmoor Road]] intersection (continues south as Roxbury Road)
* [[Oxmoor Road]] intersection (continues south as Roxbury Road)


Revision as of 15:29, 21 April 2010

18th Street South (originally Park Avenue) in Homewood is a southern extension of Birmingham's 18th Street South. The approximately 0.8-mile, north-south road runs from where the Homewood and Birmingham city limits meet at Valley Avenue through the Homewood Central Business District to Oxmoor Road.

The road was renamed from Park Avenue during the 1950s when Homewood renamed several streets through the Central Business District to continue Birmingham's street numbering system.

18th Street was originally part of Montgomery Highway (U.S. Highway 31) and featured a curve at 29th Avenue South to direct southbound traffic over to what is now Independence Drive. Highway 31 was rerouted to the Elton B. Stephens Expressway, once it was completed in 1970. The curve was finally converted to a standard T-intersection in the 1990s.

MAX Transit Routes 39 and 42 include the street in their routes. It is also often part of the route for the Homewood Christmas parade and Homewood High School homecoming parade.

Notable locations

For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 18th Street Homewood category.
Montgomery Highway
Homewood Vestavia Hills Hoover Pelham Alabaster
Current U.S. Highway 31 Independence Dr. Montgomery Hwy Montgomery Hwy Pelham Parkway 1st Street
Previous routes 18th St S, 29th Ave S, Old Montgomery Hwy Lorna Road, Old Montgomery Hwy Old Montgomery Hwy Old Highway 31
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