18th Street South Homewood
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 1940s when Homewood renamed several streets 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 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. In addition, the Homewood Christmas Star is hung over the street at the top of the hill, just north of Oxmoor Road, each year in December.
Notable locations
- For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 18th Street South Homewood category.
- Valley Avenue/21st Avenue South intersection (continues north in Birmingham as Richard Arrington, Jr Boulevard South)
- 2100: Jefferson County Board of Education, former office of State Farm Insurance Companies southern regional office
- 2101: Walgreen's drug store
- bridge over Griffin Brook
- 2510-2512: Farm House of Homewood, former location of Wally's Vulcan Restaurant (1964), The Gold Nugget
- 2518: Masterpiece Flowers, former location of Golden Glo Donuts (1964), Bloom
- Rosedale Drive intersection
- 2545: former location of Sentell Oil Co. gas station (1964)
- 2552: Alabama Pool Services
- 2560: former location of Dorothy McDaniel's Flower Market
- 2562: Doc's Upholstery
- 2562a: former location of Perkins Barber Shop (1964)
- 2564: Green Resource Center for Alabama
- 2568: former location of The Inn Restaurant (1964)
- 26th Avenue South intersection
- 2600: former location of Standard Oil Co. gas station (1964)
- 2605: former location of Reynold's Cleaners (1964)
- 2609: former location of Hill Furniture Co. used furniture (1964)
- 2617: former location of Brooks Animal Clinic (1964)
- 2625: former location of Anne's Antiques
- 2629: former location of Damon Lee's Lee Realty Co. and D. Lee & Son Grocery (1964)
- 2630: Rob'e Mans, former location of Butch Wells Texaco (1964)
- 2632: former location of City Ice Delivery (1964)
- 27th Avenue South (east) intersection
- 2700: former location of Homewood Gulf Service Station
- 2701: Mike's Hot Dogs
- 2705: former location of Trackside Gasoline Station (1964)
- 2707: Devinci's Pizza
- 27th Avenue South (west) intersection
- 2710: Homewood Post Office, former location of Jim & Jim's Amoco service station (1964)
- 2711: former location of Shades Valley Television Service & D. & W. Auto Service (1964)
- 2717: Little Professor Book Center, former location of The Lotus restaurant. ABC Store No. 15 (1964)
- 2721: Crape Myrtle's Cafe (behind and attached to Little Professor)
- 2724: former location of The Nook restaurant (1964)
- 2725: former location of Homewood OK Rubber Welders (1964)
- 2727: Hatfield Auto Parts
- 2730: Ed's Pet World, former location of JoJo Superette groceries & meats (1964)
- 2730½: former location of King Kold ice dealers (1964)
- 2731: former location of Shades Valley Cleaners
- 2732-2734: former location of Hatfield Auto Parts (1964)
- 2738: Nadeau Birmingham furniture, former location of Homewood Cycle & Hobby Shop (1964)
- 28th Avenue South intersection
- West side:
- 2800: Daedalus Candles (former location of Shades Valley Times and Dunn Drug Co.)
- 2804: former location of Homewood Bakery & Delicatessen
- 2806: former location of a Hill's Food Store and Homewood A&P Store
- 2808: Hill Crest Furniture (former location of The Royal Standard)
- 2812: Sam's Super Samwiches
- 2814: Doree, former location of Shaia Drygoods Store
- 2816: former location of Marshall Durbin retail store
- 2820: Soca Clothing, former location of Homewood Hardware Store
- 2822: former location of Zipper Cafe
- 2824: former location of Loop Market
- 2826: Pure Barre (formerly Anchorage Restaurant)
- 2830: Homewood Toy & Hobby Shop
- 2832: former location of Shades Valley Drugs and Younger Beauty Shoppe
- 2834: Cahaba Cycles (formerly Homewood Theatre, Homewood Cycle & Hobby Shop, and Homewood Cycle and Fitness)
- 2838: Hiltz-Lauber
- 2842: former location of Standard Furnace & Air Conditioning
- 2842½: former offices of the Homewood Herald
- 2844: Let's Get Organized
- 2846: Urban Cookhouse
- East side:
- 2801: Amy Head Studio
- 2803: former location of Red Rain
- 2807: Sciascia's Salon & Boutique
- 2815: Ruby's For Childern
- 2815-A: Amanda Schedler Fine Art
- 2818: Shaia's
- 2821: Theodora
- 2823: Shoefly
- 2825: Swaddle (formerly Laser's Edge)
- 2827: Swanky Stork
- 2829: Momma Goldberg's Deli
- 2829-2831: former location of Huffstutler's Hardware
- 2831: O'Henry's Coffees
- The Curve
- 2835: Oak Hill Bar & Grill (former location of Patriot Arcade and Alexander Dry Cleaning)
- 2841: Trak Shak
- West side:
- 29th Avenue South intersection (east only)
- West side:
- 2852: Bryant Electric building (built 1925), Festivity boutique (2012-), former location of feed store, Bryant Electric Co., Hechinger Plumbing)
- 2854: Edgewood Fine Jewelry
- 2856: Inflations and Invitations
- 2856: formerly Homewood Shoe Hospital
- East side:
- 2901: former location of Little Professor Book Center, Bonfield's
- 2905: former location of Plott Barbershop
- 2909: O'Carr's
- 2913: Salem's Diner
- West side:
- Reese Street intersection (west only)
- West side:
- 2900: Once Upon a Time (formerly Silver Locket)
- 2902: Johnny's Restaurant (formerly Out Takes)
- 2904: Three Sheets: A Linen Shop
- 2906: a.k.a. Girl Stuff
- 2908: former location of Lollar's Cameras
- 2910: Four Seasons (formerly Home Grown Special Foods)
- 2916: Savage's Bakery
- 2918: Jack N' Jill Shop
- 2920: Sikes' Children's Shoes
- 2920 1/2: former location of Lowenbrau Haus
- 2922: former site of Fox Photo booth
- East side:
- 2921: At Home
- 2923: former location of Feeny Sales
- 2927: Seibels
- 2931: Hair Group
- 2939: former location of New Environs
- Ridout's-Brown Service Valley Chapel
- West side:
- Oxmoor Road intersection (continues south as Roxbury Road)