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** 3600: [[Birmingham Water Works]]
** 3600: [[Birmingham Water Works]]
* [[37th Street North]] intersects
* [[37th Street North]] intersects
** 3700: [[City Paper]] ([[City Ad Specialties]], [[PaperWorks Outlet]])
** north side:
** 3800–3812: [[Avondale Commerce Park]], former location of [[Avondale Mills]] (1897–1971)
*** 3700: [[City Paper]] ([[City Ad Specialties]], [[PaperWorks Outlet]])
** 3813: former location of [[C & C Sales & Service]] (1949)
*** 3726–4010: [[Avondale Commerce Park]], former location of [[Avondale Mills]] (1897–1971)
** 3827: commercial building (built 1940), [[Eyes mural]] (2016)
** south side:
*** 3813: former location of [[C & C Sales & Service]] (1949)
*** 3827: commercial building (built 1940), [[Eyes mural]] (2016)
* [[39th Street North]] intersects (north only)
* [[39th Street North]] intersects (north only)
** 3921: [[M & M Barbecue]]
** north side:
** 4012: former location of [[Eagle Motor Lines]] (1948), [[M. & M. Drive-In]] (1963)
*** 3726–4010: [[Avondale Commerce Park]], former location of [[Avondale Mills]] (1897–1971)
** 4013: [[Tom's Sound]]
*** 4012: former location of [[Eagle Motor Lines]] (1948), [[M. & M. Drive-In]] (1963)
** 4023: former location of [[Highland Ice Cream Co.]] (1926)
*** 4030: [[Rally's Drive-In]] (reopened 2019)
** 4030: [[Rally's Drive-In]] (reopened 2019)
** south side:
** 4031: former location of [[F. R. Wall]] & Son's [[Woco Pep]] service station (1925)
*** 3921: [[M & M Barbecue]]
*** 4013: [[Tom's Sound]]
*** 4023: former location of [[Highland Ice Cream Co.]] (1926)
*** 4031: former location of [[F. R. Wall]] & Son's [[Woco Pep]] service station (1925)
 
* [[41st Street North]] intersects
* [[41st Street North]] intersects
** 4101: former location of [[Blue Bird Cafe]] ([[Pete Malfas]] 1942)
** 4101: former location of [[Blue Bird Cafe]] ([[Pete Malfas]] 1942)

Revision as of 09:42, 18 September 2020

The "Heaviest Corner on Earth" at 1st Avenue North and 20th Street

First Avenue North is an east-west street running through downtown Birmingham. The westernmost section by that name ends at Center Street, although the road continues further west as Cotton Avenue Southwest. The easternmost section ends at West Boulevard along Roebuck Municipal Golf Course. First Avenue North is the only east-west Birmingham street to run continuously from Center Street to Roebuck. It is also a two-way street for its entire length, the majority of which is four to five lanes wide.

Between Carraway Boulevard (formerly 26th Street) and 34th Street, 1st Avenue is on a viaduct which runs beside Sloss Furnaces. Between 42nd Street and 44th Street, 1st Avenue is separated from Messer Airport Highway by only a narrow, landscaped median. Messer Airport Highway is not accessible from 1st at this point, the closest links being 41st Street and 45th Place North. Two gas stations at either end of the narrow median use concrete barriers to prevent motorists from cutting through. First Avenue is also a primary street through the Woodlawn neighborhood.

U.S. Highway 11 runs along 1st Avenue from 9th Street in the east to between 86th and 87th Streets in the west. At this point in the west, the road forks, with Highway 11 continuing along Parkway East while 1st Avenue, the lesser route, continues for a block and a half to West Boulevard. U.S. Highway 78 also runs along 1st Avenue between 9th Street and 24th Street.

In addition, 1st Avenue is fully accessible from and to Interstate 59. It is directly accessible from Interstate 20 eastbound and provides direct access to I-20 westbound. It is accessible from the northbound side of the Elton B. Stephens Expressway (Highways 31 and 280). It passes under Interstate 65 without providing any access.

The first electric "thoroughfare lighting" was installed on 1st Avenue North on poles spaced 200 feet apart. The lighting was upgraded with new, taller poles on 100-foot spacings between 32nd and 85th Streets under the city's 1945 contract with the Birmingham Electric Company.

See also

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Notable locations

For an alphabetical list of locations, see the 1st Avenue North category.

Smithfield

Downtown Birmingham

Main article: 1st Avenue North (Downtown)

North Avondale

Woodlawn

Woodlawn City Hall at 5523 1st Ave. N.

Wahouma/East Lake

Bruno's Super Market at 6512 1st Avene North
1940s view of 1st Avenue North, looking east from 76th Street

North East Lake/South East Lake

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