1925

1920 was the 54th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

• Spring: The Ku Klux Klan sponsored a minstrel show at Municipal Auditorium to raise funds for Birmingham City Schools.
• Miss Fancy knocked over a cookhouse at Avondale Park and kicked over a couple of water hydrants before heading up the hill into Forest Park.
• King Spring in Avondale was channeled into a culvert below Spring Street.
• Green Springs Park opened to the public.
• Camp Coleman near Trussville was established by the Cahaba Girl Scout Council.
• McElwain School was taken over by the Jefferson County Board of Education.
• WAPI-AM debuted when Alabama Polytechnic Institute took over equipment from Alabama Power Company's defunct WSY-AM station in 1925 and merged it with its own WMAV-AM.
• Birmingham City Hall (1901) was heavily damaged by a fire.

Business

• April 27: Loew's Temple Theater opened.
• May 1: The Redmont Hotel opened to guests.
• May 2: Clarence Saunders opened the first four Birmingham area Piggly Wiggly stores.
• July 1: The Central Park Family Theater opened.
• Charles Carraway founded the Norwood Clinic.
• Shook and Fletcher took over operations at Champion Mine and Taits Gap Mine.
• Henry Cobb founded the Union Realty Company to construct the Thomas Jefferson Hotel.
• Dixie Field closed as Glenn Messer moved his flight school to Messer Field.
• WBRC-AM was founded.
• Giuseppe Moretti's first marble quarry in Talladega County failed.

Government

• August 18: The Birmingham City Commission officially adopted the Flag of Birmingham designed by Idyl King Sorsby and made "Birmingham Day", December 19, an official holiday.
• November 2: Jimmie Jones succeeded David McLendon as President of the Birmingham City Commission. William Cloe, William Dickson was re-elected Commissioner of Public Improvements and John H. Taylor succeeded William Cloe as Commissioner of Public Safety.

Religion

• October 1: Vernon McMaster succeeded Joseph Ware as rector of St Andrew's Episcopal Church.
• Louis Pizitz succeeded Max Roseman as president of Temple Beth-El.
• Lemuel Dawson became pastor of Edgewood Baptist Church.

Works

• Reddy Kilowatt was envisioned by Ashton Collins

Films

• Coming Through
• Phantom of the Opera

Books

• May 1: "A Park System for Birmingham" report by the Olmsted Brothers
• Bigger and Blacker by Octavus Roy Cohen

Buildings

• Alabama Power Building
• Barrett Elementary School, new wing
• Birmingham International Raceway grandstand
• Central Park Family Theater on Bessemer Road
• Commercial block on 52nd Avenue North
• Hewitt-Trussville High School
• J. S. Jackson residence
• Martin Office Building
• Mt Calvary Presbyterian Church sanctuary in Clay
• Phillips High School, second unit
• Pizitz building
• Redmont Hotel
• Service station at 600 24th Street South
• June 1: Construction of the 24th Street Viaduct began.
• Construction of the Florentine Building began.

Individuals

• Hugo Black separated himself from the Ku Klux Klan.
• Hugh Morrow became president of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company.

Births

• February 14: Buddy Lively, baseball player
• March 31: Harry Brock, Jr, banker
• July 31: Harry Malmberg, baseball player
• Clay Smith, former insurance executive and book collector

Deaths

• April 19: Edward M. Tutwiler, industrialist and developer
• July 22: Drew Morris
• September 9: W. H. Coleman, police officer, shot in the line of duty
• A. C. Oxford, photographer
• Benjamin Franklin Riley, Howard College president

Context

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