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Any Phenix City people here?
Posted on 11/11/26 at 10:17 pm
Posted on 11/11/26 at 10:17 pm
Any stories about the lawlessness that the city was once known for? How it became that way?
Anyone else live in a city/area once considered lawless in modern times?
Anyone else live in a city/area once considered lawless in modern times?
This post was edited on 11/11/26 at 10:19 pm
Posted on 11/11/26 at 10:23 pm to cubsfan5150
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The Phenix City Story is a 1955 American crime film noir directed by Phil Karlson for Allied Artists, written by Daniel Mainwaring and Crane Wilbur and starring John McIntire, Richard Kiley, and Kathryn Grant. It dramatizes the 1954 assassination of attorney and politician Albert Patterson in Phenix City, Alabama, and the subsequent declaration of martial law. Although the film presents Albert Patterson's son, John Patterson, as a reform figure opposing corruption, his later political career complicates this image; as governor of Alabama (1959–1963), Patterson was a staunch supporter of segregation and ran on a campaign heavily supported by the Ku Klux Klan. During his tenure as governor, John Patterson fought against desegregation, particularly in schools, and clashed with the John F. Kennedy administration over the handling of Freedom Riders
The film had a triple premiere held on July 19, 1955 in Phenix City, Alabama, Columbus, Georgia, and Chicago, Illinois. It was a critical and commercial success, and has come to be regarded as one of the classics of the film noir genre.
Posted on 11/11/26 at 10:25 pm to cubsfan5150
quote:such as BR?
Anyone else live in a city/area once considered lawless in modern times?
Posted on 11/11/26 at 10:39 pm to cubsfan5150
IIRC at one time the Army declared the entire town off limits to GIs
Posted on 11/12/26 at 3:24 am to Jim Rockford
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IIRC at one time the Army declared the entire town off limits to GIs
truth.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 5:40 am to themunch
I lived in Bogalusa for 42 years. AMA
The truth of all places considered bad is that you only hear about the bad.
The truth of all places considered bad is that you only hear about the bad.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 5:43 am to Jim Rockford
There’s an old tale that always made it’s way around that when Patton was a commanding general at Fort Benning a couplee of his troops where strung up on some made up charge and thrown in the PC jail.
Patton ordered the Phenix City sheriff/head PoPo to release them. Sheriff didn’t release them so early the next morning Patton had a tank on the Columbus sude of the bridge with it’s gun trained on the PC jail.
Story goes that Pattons troops were released shortly thereafter.
Knowing what I’ve read and heard about Patton I don’t doubt he meant to do military harm to that jail via main tank gun.
Just a story I always heard growing up in the area
Patton ordered the Phenix City sheriff/head PoPo to release them. Sheriff didn’t release them so early the next morning Patton had a tank on the Columbus sude of the bridge with it’s gun trained on the PC jail.
Story goes that Pattons troops were released shortly thereafter.
Knowing what I’ve read and heard about Patton I don’t doubt he meant to do military harm to that jail via main tank gun.
Just a story I always heard growing up in the area
This post was edited on 11/12/26 at 5:55 am
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:22 am to cubsfan5150
My dad was at Auburn in the 1950s and I asked him if they ever went over to Phenix City and he said hell no. Said they knew they were not wanted over there. He said it wasn't like going to a bad neighborhood is where something bad could happen. He said this was the mob and it wasn't if something bad might happen if you went there.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:44 am to cubsfan5150
Pass through there when I go to Columbus (Son stationed at Benning) and do not stop in PC unless I need gas
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:49 am to cubsfan5150
I passed through once and got 2 traffic tickets back to back.
That’s all I got.
That’s all I got.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 8:01 am to cubsfan5150
There is a really cool Mr. Ballen story about a guy who had a car wreck in Phenix City years ago. He had a wreck on the same night a year apart with the same person.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 8:16 am to wareaglepete
Born and raised in Phenix City. Great Uncle was a Russell County sheriff deputy / AL Highway Patrol officer back in the rough days of PC. When he passed away, we found a shoe box full of photos of crime scenes from that period that wasn’t pretty. The stigma from that period still lives on with the city.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 9:24 am to cubsfan5150
People like to think of the Deep South as way more buttoned up and conservative back then, because of the Andy Griffeth Show and nostalgic cultural depictions of the 1950s and 1960s.
But it was way more wide open back them in terms of hookers and gambling and organized crime.
But it was way more wide open back them in terms of hookers and gambling and organized crime.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 10:04 am to cubsfan5150
Don't live there but I visited Holbrook Az. They still have the bucket of blood saloon standing.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 10:29 am to AUTimbo
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There’s an old tale that always made it’s way around that when Patton was a commanding general at Fort Benning a couplee of his troops where strung up on some made up charge and thrown in the PC jail. Patton ordered the Phenix City sheriff/head PoPo to release them. Sheriff didn’t release them so early the next morning Patton had a tank on the Columbus sude of the bridge with it’s gun trained on the PC jail. Story goes that Pattons troops were released shortly thereafter. Knowing what I’ve read and heard about Patton I don’t doubt he meant to do military harm to that jail via main tank gun.
Patton also wanted to fire on WW1 veterans who were part of the Bonus Army.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 10:36 am to cubsfan5150
I live in Columbus and drive through Phenix City every day on my way to work in Auburn. It’s not bad these days except for South Girard.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 10:40 am to cubsfan5150
quote:14th Street Grill had damn good hotdogs
Phenix City
Posted on 11/12/26 at 10:41 am to cubsfan5150
I got gas there in the early 2000’s. Decidedly rough compared to the surrounding area. Some skinny old guy with half and arm came to the pumps and filled up a gas can.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 11:10 am to cubsfan5150
Dad is from PC, mother from Columbus. We moved when I was 4. Thank God. But spent many a weekends there when I was younger.
I will swear by the BBQ there though. It is phenomenal.
I will swear by the BBQ there though. It is phenomenal.
This post was edited on 11/12/26 at 11:11 am
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