1954

1954 was the 83rd year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Business

Establishments

• March 15: Cliff's Clubhouse children's program debuted on WABT-TV
• March 22: The "Panorama" local news program debuted on WBRC-TV
• April 24: Rumore's Record Rack
• May 16: * Shades Crest Baptist Church
• Summer: Pickwick Players theater company
• Aldridge Garden Shop moved from Bessemer to Redmont
• American States' Rights Association, led by Senator Hugh Morrow
• Birmingham Area Educational TV Association
• Dale Serrano Dance Studios
• First Baptist Church of Hoover
• Fuller Thompson Olds Architects
• The second iteration of Gaslight Theatre
• Holiday Inn first opened in the Birmingham District
• Shades Valley Camera Club
• Doane Petcare of Tennessee opened its Birmingham plant
• WABT television station went on the air

Disestablishments

• SS. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church
• Erlick's
• Gaslight Theatre
• Pickwick Players
• WAFM-TV

Government

• Bull Connor attempted and failed to become Governor of Alabama

Religion

• March 14: Roebuck Park Baptist Church was organized.

Sports

• The Birmingham Black Barons traded their team bus to the Louisville Clippers in exchange for Jesse Mitchell and Charley Pride.
• November 27: The Auburn Tigers shut out the Crimson Tide 28-0 in the Iron Bowl at Legion Field.

Individuals

Births

Doug Jones

Condoleezza Rice

Frank Stitt

• January 10: Bobby Humphryes
• January 31:Roy Hobbs
• February 10:Ervin Batain
• February 19:Daniel Moore
• February 21:Sundra Escott
• February 23:Andrew Manis
• March 20:Marcus A. Jones III
• April 12:Dave Hanson
• April 16: Lissa LeGrand, radio announcer
• April 17:Teresa Thorne
• April 20:Mike O'Berry
• April 29: Mo Brooks, former U.S. Representative
• May 4:Doug Jones, former U.S. Senator
• May 6: Joseph Boohaker
• May 10:Annetta Verin
• July 12:Chuck Wingate
• July 13: Nick Derzis
• August: Mike Miles
• August 31: Henry David DeBardeleben
• September 7:Michael Emerson
• September 16: David Cutcliffe
• September 16:Pat DuPré
• September 18:Tommy Tuberville, football coach and U.S. Senator
• October 17: Phyllis Hoffman DePiano, magazine publisher
• October 27:Joe Knight
• October 29:Herman Frazier
• October 29:Ron Sparks
• November 14:Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State
• December 23: Emanuel Bell
• William B. Blount
• Walter Braswell
• Ed Brock
• Ronald Cheatham
• Phil Dodd
• Phyllis Gilchrist, journalist
• David Harwell
• Don Harwell
• Greg Hays
• Patricia Humes
• Chuck Hunter
• Gabby Hulgan
• Lanny Jackson
• Tamara Johnson
• Rickey Kennedy
• Java Lewis
• Trey Lott
• Don MacDermott
• Art Meripol, photographer
• Kate Nielsen
• James Perryman
• Kim Price
• Frank Stitt, chef
• Allan Trippe
• Gary Weinberger

Deaths

• February 14: John Canepa, Pastor of St Mark's Catholic Church
• February 27: Mansion Joe
• May 10: Frank W. Thomas
• September 1: Wimpy Quinn
• Miss Fancy
• John Rice

See also: List of homicides in 1954

Works

• Erskine Hawkins began recording for Decca Records

Buildings

• A. G. Gaston Motel
• All Saints Episcopal Church
• Cahaba Park Apartments
• Curry Elementary School
• Don Drennen Overpass
• Holiday Inn on Bessemer Super Highway
• Joy Young Restaurant remodel
• Mars Petcare
• St Barnabas Catholic Church
• Southern Life & Health Insurance building
• Southern Toy Co.
• State Farm Mutual building
• Tidwell Hall
• WBRC studio building
• West Hills Plaza shopping center in Fairfield
• Woodlawn High School's "delta-shaped" two-story band and shop building

Context

1950s

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