This episode is about the Shades Cahaba building, how it grew over the years, what changed, and why. This podcast was originally audio-only, but this version has pictures and an overhead view of the building to illustrate better what I am talking...
Yearbooks are important in the year of a student and more important when you are trying to restart memories later in life. For me, they have been invaluable when reconstructing timelines and confirming (or correcting) stories. Here are the covers of the yearbooks from...
Yearbooks are important in the year of a student and more important when you are trying to restart memories later in life. For me, they have been invaluable when reconstructing timelines and confirming (or correcting) stories. Here are the covers of the yearbooks from...
Yearbooks are important in the year of a student and more important when you are trying to restart memories later in life. For me, they have been invaluable when reconstructing timelines and confirming (or correcting) stories. Here are the covers of the yearbooks from...
I mention in the Underpass episode about Montgomery Highway, today’s Independence Drive, being a sleepy country road when the school was built. As the over-the-mountain communities grew the need to keep the students safe was a key driver for the underpass. In...
This episode is about the Shades Cahaba Underpass. Some of you may call it the tunnel, but from the time it was conceived in the early 1950s and for the next 40 or 50 years, it was called the underpass. I had forgotten it was called the underpass until a schoolmate...
I received this great photo from Homewood resident Jeff Underwood. It is the Shades Cahaba basketball team from about 1964. Jeff believes that the school team may have been sponsored by the YMCA and that is why it is on the S on the letterman’s jacket. The team...
This is my second conversation episode with former Homewood High School Principal and Superintendent Michael Gross. In the first episode, we talked about the school system’s beginning, the opening of the high school, and the unique challenges he faced. We had a...
Owing to the fact that this was our first year of Basket Ball at S.C.H.S. and that our men are inexperienced we did not show up as well as other teams. Unfortunately, our games were scheduled with some of the strongest teams in the state, such as Simpson,...
We have talked a lot about the beginnings of Shades Cahaba High School and Shades Valley High School, but now I want to talk more about the beginnings of other schools in Homewood and the beginning of the Homewood School System. The Board of Education was established...
