1960

Eastwood Mall opened in 1960.

1960 was the 89th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

B-Liner bus

• Hueytown was incorporated.
• Margaret was incorporated.
• The Alabama Polytechnic Institute became Auburn University.
• The Birmingham Transit Company began using B-Liner buses .
• Parts of Lakeshore were annexed into Homewood.
• The Vestavia Hills Park and Recreation Board was created.
• The New York Times sued Fred Shuttlesworth for libel.
• Paul Laurence Dunbar High School closed.
• Jimmy Morgan commissioned a master plan for a future Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
• The Jefferson County Department of Health began inspecting X-ray equipment and other radiation sources.

Business

• Jack's restaurant chain was founded by Jack Caddell.
• Frank P. Samford, Jr became president of Liberty National Life Insurance Company.
• Sexton's Seafood was founded in Destin, Florida.

Media

• Paul Williams, Eddie Kendricks ,Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, and Elbridge Bryant founded The Elgins, soon to be renamed "The Temptations".
• Golfter Charley Boswell appeared on This is Your Life
• The blue-roofed Pilgrim Church appeared in an advertising campaign for the National Steel Corporation.

Sports

• December 17: Alabama tied Texas 3-3 in the Bluebonnet Bowl
• Races were first held on the newly-paved track at the Birmingham International Raceway.

Works

• Fate in a Pleasant Mood (LP) by Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra
• Artist Barbara Evans sold her first paintings.
• The Birmingham Grotto of the National Speleological Society launched its Cavea Novea newsletter.

Books

• Richard Yates began writing Revolutionary Road after suffering a mental breakdown and divorce.

Buildings

• Bryan Educational Building at Third Presbyterian Church
• Camp Jimmy Goodwin
• Cherokee Campground
• Eastwood Mall
• Hayes High School
• Hixson Hall
• J. S. Abrams High School
• St George Melkite Greek Catholic Church
• The marquee at the Alabama Theatre was replaced.
• A 2-story addition to Barrett Elementary School was completed.
• Construction of Logan Martin Dam began.

People

• John Swindle succeeded R. B. Knox as Chief of the Birmingham Fire Department.
• Arthur Winograd succeeded Arthur Lipkin as conductor of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
• Composer Hugh Martin suffered a nervous breakdown.
• Stylist Jay Sebring married model Cami.
• Marketer Morris Mayer joined the faculty of the University of Alabama.
• A. C. Dickinson became the first principal of Hayes High School.
• Jerome Cooper succeeded Nathan Goldstein as president of the Jewish Community Center of Birmingham.
• John Grenier became chair of the Jefferson County Young Republicans.
• Bull Connor was elected to the Democratic National Committee
• Pilot Joe Shannon flew a C-47 transport to Europe during the Berlin crisis.
• Alden Gannett became president of Southeastern Bible College.
• Robert Guillot succeeded Verner Adams as Mayor of Vestavia Hills.
• Painter Jack Whitten enrolled at the Cooper Union in New York City.
• Clarence Marble enlisted in the army.

Awards

• Earl Hilliard graduated from Western Olin HIgh School.
• Shin Oh completed his medical degree at the Seoul National University in South Korea.
• Richard Gilliam completed graduate school.
• Dan Gaylord was named Mr Crestwood.
• Teresa Rinaldi was crowned Miss Alabama.
• Art Hanes, Jr graduated from Woodlawn High School.
• Jack Bulow graduated from Southside High School of Elmira, New York.

Pastorates

• James L. Myers became pastor of Nichols Temple AME Church.
• Ralph Clark became pastor of First Baptist Church of Mount Olive.
• Seymour Atlas left the pulpit at Knesseth Israel Congregation.
• Julian Aland left the pulpit at Temple Emanu-El.
• John Claypool became pastor of Crescent Hill Baptist in Louisville, Kentucky

Births

• March 13: Oliver Robinson, politician and former basketball player
• April 14: Mike Jones football player and coach
• August 25: Ashley Crow, actress
• August 29: Bill Latham, baseball player
• September 15: Mike Davis, UAB Blazers basketball coach
• October 10: Rod Foster, basketball player
• October 12: Steve Lowery, golfer
• Cindy Cason: Homewood City Schools administrator
• Jim Howard, product designer and entrepreneur
• Wanda Jones, antiques dealer
• David Marsh, swimming and diving coach
• Scott Stantis, cartoonist
• Mac Underwood, accountant, Birmingham Water Works manager

Deaths

• February 29: George Huddleston, Sr, U. S. Congressman
• December 11: Mike Donahue, Auburn Tigers coach
• Henry Edmonds, founder of Independent Presbyterian Church
• James Burt, Jr, first husband of Anne Woodward.

See also: List of Birmingham homicides in 1960

Context

1960s

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