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re: Birmingham Shootings
Posted on 5/14/24 at 11:25 am to Stidham8
Posted on 5/14/24 at 11:25 am to Stidham8
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Correct. They are in Mountainbrook, Homewood, Vestavia, Chelsea, Brook Highland, Meadowbrook, and the nicer parts of Hoover.
Some of those areas are very very nice. Mountain brook is one of the nicer spots in the state. Vestavia is nice too.
The rest are milque toast.
This post was edited on 5/14/24 at 11:26 am
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Posted on 5/14/24 at 11:50 am to Night Vision
B Ham needs to move SEC commission office to neutral state, fire Stanky and elected a non-alumnus commissioner.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 12:02 pm to tiger1616
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I live in Helena
What’s good neighbor?
Posted on 5/14/24 at 12:17 pm to bluedragon
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I inspect houses and can see the gangs assemble in the mid morning hours .....
That's when they're going to bed.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 1:35 pm to SlidellCajun
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The rest are milque toast.
You damn sure no little to nothing about this town with the hoity toity comments. There are many other nice areas besides MB & VH.
Slidell? lol there's' some milque toast for you.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 1:41 pm to Toomer Deplorable
We were part of the white flight that left Ensley circa 1978 and went to Bluff Park. Shame what has happened to that area.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 1:55 pm to auwaterfowler
quote:Yeah a lot of downtown Bham is pretty damn safe compared to most cities. Pepper Place, Lakeview, Avondale, Parkside, Uptown, 2nd Ave North, Crestwood, Forrest Park all are bustling with people at the breweries, restaurants and bars at night.
There are very specific areas that people who look like me have no business being. If I, and people like me, stay out of those areas, BHM is perfectly fine.
Yeah there’s your typical car break ins and things in those places, but I’ve never had anything happen to me or know of anybody having an issue. We go out all the time.
Most of the bad stuff occurs in places you should not be in the first place. Especially the violent crime.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 2:31 pm to au4you
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Most of the bad stuff occurs in places you should not be in the first place. Especially the violent crime.
I'm showing my age but downtown Bham would become a ghost town during the late 70's & 80's after 5pm when the working class headed out to the suburbs, There were a few great restaurants but the old Redmont hotel was rent by the hour, on any given night you would ride by there an see the pimps and hookers hangin' in the lobby. 4th Ave N was a hooker haven. Alll you really had downtown for entertainment was the Boutwell Auditorium and the BJCC
The revitalization kicked off with Railroad Park being the catalyst, then moving the Barons to the new Regions Field stadium was another smart move and the lofts and bars followed popping up everywhere which changed the demographic. Avondale was bums and transitional homes for drug addicts.
All the crime and thugs relocated West of I-65 and more toward the Northside, and of course slowly to the east where East Lake & Roebuck were very nice middle class areas. Sad to see parts of those areas now
This post was edited on 5/14/24 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 5/14/24 at 9:06 pm to makersmark1
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Historically, Ensley was a really good high school.
My dad was a graduate of Ramsey High School. Before and after WWII, the education offered by the City of Birmingham was so desirable, parents of children who lived in what is now incorporated Mountain Brook — then and now one of the wealthiest communities in the South — payed tuition for their children to attend the highly regarded Ramsey and Phillips High School.
And this was not just the case of white segregated schools. Parker High School — one of the largest and most advanced high schools for blacks in the world — was the pride of the black community and produced Alabama Supreme Court Justice Oscar Adams, Jazz greats Erskine Hawkins & Sun Ra, and many future Birmingham business and civic leaders too numerous to list.
In the mid 1970s — despite a decade of “white flight” — Birmingham was by far the largest and best funded school system in the State. Yet since that time, Birmingham has seen a precipitous drop in enrollment and no longer ranks in the top 5 statewide.
In the past 50 years, the City of Birmingham school system hemorrhages a steady percentage of students every year. It no longer is an issue of whites fleeing the schools, as now even lower income blacks families are fleeing the failing system.
This post was edited on 5/14/24 at 9:15 pm
Posted on 5/14/24 at 9:47 pm to au4you
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Most of the bad stuff occurs in places you should not be in the first place. Especially the violent crime.
3 blocks north of the Avondale entertainment district is the North Avondale/Kingston neighborhood. These are no-go zones, at least at night.
The crimes in these neighborhoods invariably spills over into Avondale and Lakeview in the form of car break-ins, purse snatchings and even the occasional car-jacking and random shootings: Avondale gas station shooting leaves woman injured; suspect still at large…
The bloom is off the rose for Avondale: Melt, Post Office Pies & Rodney Scott’s BBQ have shuttered in the last year alone. Melt moved to Hoover, Post Office Pies to Mtn. Brook and Rodney Scott’s to Trussville.
This post was edited on 5/14/24 at 10:10 pm
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