In her 1997 book WIREGRASS COUNTRY, FSU professor Jerrilyn McGregory considers Dothan to truly be THE HUB OF THE WIREGRASS but she lists these counties as being WIREGRASS: ALABAMA- Pike, Dale, Geneva, Houston , FLORIDA- Holmes, Washington, Bay, Liberty, Gadsden, GEORGIA- Miller, Seminole, Decatur, Grady, Thomas, Colquitta Worth, Tift, Brooks, Lowndes, Lanier. Parts of other counties could be considered to be WIREGRASS but this is the core geographic area of Professor McGregory's study. http://books.google.com/books?id=0kwchjDboMoC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=wiregrass+country+map+%22jerrilyn+mcgregory%22&source=bl&ots=3OK-KQC0AK&sig=iOVsq8AWuONEnTwQ_PidYyNViBw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lN3gUYLAGYmi4AP25ICoAw&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=wiregrass%20country%20map%20%22jerrilyn%20mcgregory%22&f=false

Old Tuscaloosa

How many of these do you remember?
Solomon's at 1001 University Blvd
Another Roadside Attraction 1009 University Blvd. (their first location)
The Dickery was at 1207 University Blvd.
Beggar's Banquet was at 1302 University Blvd.
The Dobb's House was at 1400 University Blvd.
Johnny's Restaurant was at 2400 University Blvd. (now a parking lot)
The Deep South Lounge was at 2402 University Blvd.
Roy's Place (pool room) was at 2404 University Blvd
Barnwell Hall which housed Down under in the basement 800 10th Street (Bryant Drive).
Jackie's Lounge was once called Pat's Cafe 2111 10th (Bryant Drive)
Frank's (later the Bahn Hof) was at the end of 11th Street beside the railroad tracks
Special Edition (hip hugger bellbottom jeans and t-shirts) 7th Avenue (now right half of Yazoo Courtyard Grill)
Joe Namath's Restaurant was at 607 15th Street
The Chukker was at 2121 6th Street
Chuck Wagon Cafe was at 2309 7th Street
The Silver Dollar Bar was at 2311 7th Street
Hanly's Pawn Shop was at 2313 7th Street.
Lee's Tomb (John F Mason, manager) was at 2209 4th Street
The Tide was at 614 25th Avenue

Dec. 7, 2007 message from ROBERT NIX

Dec. 7, 2007 message from ROBERT NIX

ROBERTO,

O.K,
I'VE GOT SOME GETCHIN' UP TO DO!

THE ROY ORBISON/ WALKER BROS./YARDBIRDS TOUR WAS A F---ING GAS!~!!

WE (THE CANDYMEN) CAUGHT A FLIGHT TO SAN FRANCISCO IN FEB.
IT WAS 38 DEGREES.
WE MET ROY ORBISON IN SAN FRANCISCO THAT NIGHT AND CAUGHT A FLIGHT ON THE GREATEST AIRLINES IN THE WORLD, QUANTUS
FOR SYDNEY,AUSTRALIA.
WE STOPPED IN HAWAII TO REFUEL, THEN STOPPED IN THE FIJI ISLANDS TO REFUEL, THEN FLEW ON TO SYDNEY.

IT WAS A 17 HOUR FLIGHT &
ALL IN ALL AND THE BEST FLIGHT I'VE EVER BEEN ON!

WE LANDED IN SYDNEY AND IT WAS 100 DEGREES.

THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF FANS THERE TO MEET US.
THE SECURITY PEOPLE TOOK US OUT THROUGH A GATE WHERE NO ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT.
STILL WE WERE ATTACKED BY HUNDREDS OF FANS.
THEY RUSHED US INTO LIMOS AND WE WERE ABOUT TO TAKE OFF WHEN WE NOTICED DEAN DAUGHTRY HAD GOTTEN INTO THE WRONG CAR AND WAS BEING ATTACKED BY CRAZY FANATICS.

ROY SAID ," STOP THE CAR, THEY'RE GOING TO KILL MY KEYBOARD PLAYER".

ANYHOW,
WE RETRIEVED DEAN AND HEADED FOR TYHE HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN SYDNEY. WE FINALLY GOT CHECKED INTO OUR ROOMS. DEAN WAS MY ROOM MATE ON THIS TOUR.

AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, WE WERE WIPED TOTALLY OUT.

WE GOT INTO OUR BEDS , TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN WE WERE ATTACKED BY A BUNCH OF GIRLS GONE WILD!!!

NEEDLESS TO SAY WE DIDN'T SLEEP AT ALL OUR FIRST NIGHT IN SYDNEY!!!!!

YES ROY GAVE JIMMY PAGE PERMISSION TO USE THE TITLE 'COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN'!

IT WAS A MAJOR HIT BY ROY IN AUSTRALIA.

I SANG HARMONY WITH HIM LIVE.

JIMMY LOVED OUR BAND, THE CANDYMEN.

HE HUNG OUT WITH US THE WHOLE TOUR.
WE TALKED ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS, INCLUDING HIS FUTURE IN THE MUSIC BIZ.

HE WAS NOT HAPPY AT ALL PLAYING WITH THE YARDBIRDS.

I WILL LEAVE FOR NOW BUT WILL CONTINUE THIS COVERSATION LATER.

TRUST ME IT WILL BE WORTH THE WAIT..............................
ROBERT NIX.............

beale

Bascom's Faye Dunaway won the 1977 Academy Award for Best Actress and Peter Finch won an Oscar for Best Actor in the movie NETWORK
and this is the text of his most famous scene:

 Program Director: Take 2, cue Howard.

Beale:  I don’t have to tell you things are bad.   Everybody knows things are bad.   It’s a depression.   Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job.   The dollar buys a nickel’s worth;  banks are going bust;  shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter;  punks are running wild in the street, and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat.   And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be!

We all know things are bad — worse than bad — they’re crazy.

It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out any more.   We sit in the house, and slowly the world we’re living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, “Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms.   Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won’t say anything.   Just leave us alone.”

Well, I’m not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don’t want you to protest.   I don’t want you to riot.   I don’t want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write.   I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad.

You’ve gotta say, “I’m a human being, goddammit!   My life has value!”

So, I want you to get up now.   I want all of you to get up out of your chairs.   I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!!” 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-HBsF08

CENTENNIAL

I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said "Well, a-bless my soul"

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
                     SIXTEEN TONS 

"If God had figured for a man to know what God was doing, He'd have made it that way.
I reckon He's able to do it, but He don't.
He just sticks them here, looks like, and tell them to work it out the best they can.
So that's what I'll do.
I'll go along, using what tools He gave me the best I know how, and if I manage better'n some, or worse'n some, it'll be my own crop. 
Hell, I ain't a man to change."
                                           Buck Bannon from Douglas Fields Bailey's DEVIL MAKE A THIRD

Mama told me when I was young 
Come sit beside me, my only son 
And listen closely to what I say. 
And if you do this 
It'll help you some sunny day. Oh Yah! 
Oh, take your time... Don't live too fast, 
Troubles will come and they will pass. 
You'll find a woman, yea yea, you'll find love, 
And don't forget son, 
There is someone up above. 
SIMPLE MAN by Gary Rossington and Ronnie Van Zant

I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore,
Very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more,
But the Master of the sea, heard my despairing cry,
From the waters lifted me, now safe am I. 
Refrain

Love lifted me! Love lifted me!
When nothing else could help
Love lifted me!

"This is the beginning of a new day.  

God has given me this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or use it for good.

What I do today is important as I am
exchanging a day of my life for it.

When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever.
Leaving something in its place I have traded for it.

I want it to be a gain, not loss--good, not evil.
Success, not failure,

in order that I shall not forget the price I paid for it."

On Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Bama fans around the world will celebrate the centennial of Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's birth. Everyone else will also have an opportunity to commemorate this important anniversary with the premiere of a documentary and the publication of a coffee table book dedicated to our beloved coach's life. The Bryant Museum will open a new exhibit by holding a reception and many of the authors who have written Bryant books will be in attendance. Although these events are significant they really can't compare to the last time Alabama football celebrated a centennial. 

In 1992, Bama saluted 100 years of Alabama football. The music group ALABAMA kicked it all off on A Day with a big concert in Bryant-Denny. There was a black tie gala hosted by ABC-TV announcer Keith Jackson at the civic center in Birmingham honoring the Team of the Century and to cap off the successful sales of CENTURY OF CHAMPIONS commemorative calenders, Daniel Moore prints, card sets, limited edition books, audio tapes and video collections, the University of Alabama football team went out and won the first ever SEC Championship game and creamed Miami 34 to 13 in the Sugar Bowl and won the National Championship.

Let's hope some of that centennial success from '92 rubs off on this current team and THE INVINCIBLE SPIRIT OF THE MIGHTY CRIMSON TIDE makes history this season and the Bear Bryant Centennial ends appropriately with Bama winning an unprecedented three National Championships in a row and breaks the "three in a row" jinx that plagued Bama teams in 1927, 1966 and 1980.