I would have liked to have seen towns like Selma, Greenville, Union Springs, Eufaula, Demopolis and others in the Black Belt from the period of 1900 through about 1950 when they were still towns that functioned and had industry, commerce and active farming communities.
Me too! Both my parents are from that part of the state and era as were my grandparents. My grandfather wrote down some things about growing up. One of the stories was about riding the train from Greenville to Selma then on by car to Camden to see his grandmother and other family. The ride was something special his mother did. Anyway, when they stayed at a fancy hotel in Selma, the kids wanted to go to a movie down the street. She wouldn’t let them saying “this isn’t Greenville, it’s the big city,” so they spent the evening riding in the hotel’s elevator. That would have been in the nineteen teens.
