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* There was also a Francis Falkenburg, "prominent Birmingham businessman" who was in talks to bring a a Major Indoor Soccer League team to Birmingham in the late 1970s [http://www.birminghamprosports.com/otherteamsmisl.htm]. This is most likely a son of the theatre manager. --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 11:33, 11 October 2006 (PDT) | * There was also a Francis Falkenburg, "prominent Birmingham businessman" who was in talks to bring a a Major Indoor Soccer League team to Birmingham in the late 1970s [http://www.birminghamprosports.com/otherteamsmisl.htm]. This is most likely a son of the theatre manager. --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 11:33, 11 October 2006 (PDT) | ||
** A Francis S. Falkenburg is listed as part of the Freedom Train Planning Committee and part of the group pushing for more-than-the-usual-segregration-precautions during the train's visit on December 29, 1947. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3880/is_199904/ai_n8844039/pg_3] --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 11:37, 11 October 2006 (PDT) | ** A Francis S. Falkenburg is listed as part of the Freedom Train Planning Committee and part of the group pushing for more-than-the-usual-segregration-precautions during the train's visit on December 29, 1947. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3880/is_199904/ai_n8844039/pg_3] --[[User:Dystopos|Dystopos]] 11:37, 11 October 2006 (PDT) | ||
::: Sorry, I saw those after a Google search, too, and should have noted them as well. A trivia note: Some theaters segregated by having blacks sit in the balcony, but I believe the Alabama was "whites only" until the late '60s. --[[User:Lkseitz|Lkseitz]] 13:07, 11 October 2006 (PDT) | |||
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Notes
- Rollin K. Stonebrook was manager of the Alabama Theatre in the early '30s, but I don't know if he was the immediate predecessor of Falkenburg.
- The UAB School of Nursing has a Francis S. Falkenburg Endowed Nursing Scholarship, but I'm uncertain if this was named for the same individual.
--Lkseitz 11:24, 11 October 2006 (PDT)
- There was also a Francis Falkenburg, "prominent Birmingham businessman" who was in talks to bring a a Major Indoor Soccer League team to Birmingham in the late 1970s [1]. This is most likely a son of the theatre manager. --Dystopos 11:33, 11 October 2006 (PDT)
- Sorry, I saw those after a Google search, too, and should have noted them as well. A trivia note: Some theaters segregated by having blacks sit in the balcony, but I believe the Alabama was "whites only" until the late '60s. --Lkseitz 13:07, 11 October 2006 (PDT)