1924

1924 was the 53rd year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

• January 15: Russian pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff performed in Birmingham.
• The Jefferson County Free Library bookmobile was launched by the Jefferson County Board of Revenue and the Birmingham Library Board.

Business

Establishments

• The Birmingham Boys Club opened Camp Horner on the Cahaba River.
• John Callaway opened the Edgewood Drug Company.
• The Hercules Powder Plant opened a plant northwest of Bessemer.
• The Sloss Ready-Mix Concrete Plant opened.
• A. Page Sloss Sr founded Sloss Real Estate.
• The architectural firm of Turner & McPherson began practicing.

Disestablishments

• The Preston Motors Corporation failed.
• The Valley View Mine closed.

Education

• Bluff Park Elementary School opened.

Religion

• Central Park Presbyterian Church was founded.

Sports

• Lincoln Normal School won their first football game against the State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes 30-0, a match-up that later became known as the Magic City Classic
• The "Erskine Ramsay Cup" was first presented to the Birmingham high school that exhibited the greatest commitment to sportsmanship.

Works

• "A Park System for Birmingham" report by the Olmsted Brothers to the Birmingham Park and Recreation Board.

Buildings

• 2121 1st Avenue North, commercial building on 1st Avenue North (downtown)
• 2127 1st Avenue North, commercial building on 1st Avenue North (downtown)
• 32nd Street Baptist Church in Lakeview, demolished in 2021
• American Standard Plumbing warehouse on 5th Avenue South
• Frank Hartley Anderson residence on 11th Court South
• Angwin Service Funeral Company on Avenue F Ensley
• William Bankhead residence in Jasper
• Birmingham Fire Station No. 24 in Central Park
• Bluff Park Elementary School
• Municipal Auditorium in downtown Birmingham
• Burger-Phillips building on 3rd Avenue North
• Claridge Manor Apartments in Highland Park
• Colored Masonic Temple on 4th Avenue North
• Edgewood Drug Company on Oxmoor Road in Edgewood
• Ensley Baptist Church education building on Avenue E Ensley
• Fairview United Methodist Church on Warrior Road
• Federal Reserve building on 5th Avenue North
• First Christian Church education building on 7th Avenue North
• Gate City Elementary School addition on Georgia Road
• Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in East Lake
• Gregg Building on 20th Street North
• Harmony Street Baptist Church in North Avondale
• Highland Plaza Apartments on Highland Avenue
• Highlands United Methodist Church educational building at Five Points South
• Mack Truck Garage on 6th Avenue South
• The Plaza Garages on 10th Terrace South
• Sloss Ready-Mix Concrete Plant on 1st Avenue North
• D. O. Whilldin office on 21st Street North
• Concrete bridge on U. S. Highway 11 over the Sucarnoochee River in Sumter County

Individuals

Births

• January 27: Ella Jones, church organist and music minister
• February 1: Ben Branscomb, pulmonologist
• March 14: Revis Hall, superintendent of Jefferson County Schools
• April 23: J. B. Stoner, white supremacist ideologue and terrorist
• May 22: Wallace Carden, analytical chemist
• May 22: Ed Jones, photographer
• May 23: Karl Friedman, attorney
• July 7: Johnny Simmons, basketball and baseball player
• July 15: Jeremiah Denton, U.S. Senator
• July 21: Angelena Rice, educator
• July 21: Frank Carnaggio restaurateur
• July 28: Anne Braden, journalist and Civil Rights activist
• August 3: John Fuller, architect and activist
• August 22: Walter Johnsey, Alabama Power Company executive
• August 23: Tommy Langston, Birmingham Post-Herald photographer
• September 3: Bill Greason, Major League pitcher and minister
• September 12: Bubba Church, Major League pitcher
• October 24: Orzell Billingsley, attorney and Civil Rights leader
• October 24: Billy Pappas, restaurateur
• November 9: Mel Bailey, Jefferson County Sheriff
• November 18: William Thuss Jr, occupational clinician
• November 20: Ernest Brock, Alabama Crimson Tide football team physician
• November 30: Tom York, television host
• December 1: Leven Hazlegrove, chemist
• December 6: Dick Hawley, radio announcer and sportcaster
• December 18: Luvenia Little, mother of William Bell
• December 21: John Blackburn, University of Alabama administrator
• December 31: Wilbur Harden, jazz musician
• Margie Orr Carter, educator and "Miss Birmingham"
• Billy Gamble, business instructor
• Evelyn Martin, nurse
• Joe Sacco, typewriter retailer
• Charles Sutton, pest control professional and Homewood City Council member
• Ronald Weathers, sportswriter

Deaths

• February 3: Basil Allen, attorney and judge
• February 26: Alfred Eubank, dentist
• March 3: John Eagan, ACIPCO founder
• March 21: Samuel Ullman, hardware dealer, civic leader and poet
• April 13: Edmund Rucker, Confederate officer and businessman
• June 21: Gene Walker, motorcycle racer
• November 5: Carrie Tuggle, educator
• December 19: Henry Badham Sr, industrialist and banker

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