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 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.
- Valley Avenue/21st Avenue South intersection (continues north as Richard Arrington, Jr Boulevard South)
- 2100: Jefferson County Board of Education
- 2518: Bloom
- Rosedale Drive intersection
- 26th Avenue South intersection
- 2630: Rob'e Mans
- 27th Avenue South (east) intersection
- 2701: Mike's Hot Dogs
- 2707: Devinci's Pizza
- 27th Avenue South (west) intersection
- 2710: Homewood Post Office
- 2717: Little Professor Book Center
- 2721: Crape Myrtle's Cafe (behind and attached to Little Professor)
- 2727: Hatfield Auto Parts
- 2730: Ed's Pet World
- 28th Avenue South intersection
- West side:
- 2800: Daedalus Candles (formerly Shades Valley Times)
- 2806: former location of a Hill's Food Store
- 2812: Sam's Super Samwiches
- 2814: Doree
- 2820: Soca Clothing
- 2826: Anchorage Restaurant
- 2830: Homewood Toy & Hobby Shop
- 2834: Homewood Cycle and Fitness (formerly Homewood Theatre)
- 2838: Hiltz-Lauber
- 2842½: former offices of the Homewood Herald
- 2844: Let's Get Organized
- East side:
- 2801: Amy Head Studio
- 2803: former location of Red Rain
- 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
- 2835: Oak Hill Bar & Grill (formerly Patriot Arcade)
- 2841: Trak Shak
- West side:
- 29th Avenue South intersection (east only)
- West side:
- 2852: Bryant Electric
- 2854: Edgewood Fine Jewelry
- 2856: Inflations and Invitations
- 2856: Homewood Shoe Hospital
- East side:
- 2901: former location of Little Professor Book Center
- 2909: O'Carr's
- West side:
- Reese Street intersection (west only)
- West side:
- 2910: former location of Home Grown Special Foods
- 2918: Jack N' Jill Shop
- 2920: Sikes' Children's Shoes
- East side:
- 2913: Salem's Diner
- 2923: former location of Feeny Sales
- West side:
- Oxmoor Road intersection (continues south as Roxbury Road)