re: Pictures from days gone by....

That goat is like "wtf did I get myself into"?

Goat said..."Not today"

Is that in Dothan?

I know a girl who was the "Peanut Princess" one year at the Dothan Peanut Festival...

Good looking red-head...

I never would have known anything about Dothan had my younger sister not taken a job as a flight attendant for Northwest and been assigned the Dothan-Memphis route. She met here husband there, had children, took a management position at Movie Gallery, and convinced my mother to move there in '97. My brother moved there in 2004 and still remains there as a full time minister while my sister relocated to teach at Baylor University.

I have since fallen in love with Dothan and the surrounding area. It's great to visit (any time other than the middle of the summer). The Peanut Festival is always worth the drive from north Georgia to spend a weekend there.

I can smell that picture

Gulf Shores, 1949.

Dueling scars (German: Schmiss) have been seen as a "badge of honour" since as early as 1825. Known variously as "Mensur scars", "the bragging scar", "smite", "Schmitte", or "Renommierschmiss", dueling scars were popular amongst upper class Germans and Austrians involved in academic fencing at the start of the 20th century. Being a practice amongst university students, it was seen as a mark of their class and honour, due to the status of dueling societies at German and Austrian universities at the time.[1] The practice of dueling and the associated scars was also present to some extent in the German military.[2

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Almost nothing around it, even in the late 70's.

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even in the early 90s it was fairly under developed, and they rolled up the beach around September until the spring, most businesses shut down for the "off season"

Hurricane Fredrick wiped some stuff out in 1979.

Sometime in the late 90's a bunch of the small places got bought out. All the big places started being built around that time I guess.