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0: Guitar-shaped mansion
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Health care executive Larry House had his unfinished $26 million mansion sold at auction in 2003 for $3.95 million. The 34,000 sq. ft. mansion has 21 bedrooms, 22 bathrooms, a 13 car garage, a 25 seat home theater, and a wine cellar. The 27 acre property is designed to look like a guitar.
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1: Randy Owen's House
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The country music artist owns this property. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of "Alabama", a country pop band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980's and 1990's.
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2: Jeff Cook's House
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The country music artist lives here. He is known primarily for his role in "Alabama", a country pop band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980's and 1990's.
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3: Teddy Gentry's House
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The country music artist lives here. He is known primarily for his role in "Alabama", a country pop band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980's and 1990's.
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4: Airplane taking off
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Small airplane taking off from Birmingham International Airport.
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5: Funeral in progress
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Funeral at the Elmwood Cemetary in Birmingham, AL.
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6: Wesley Acres Methodist retirement home
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The shape of this building is causing the owners a few headaches...
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7: Randy Owen's House
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The country music artist owns this home. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of "Alabama", a country rock band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980's and 1990's. This property was featured on CMT "Cribs".
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8: Alabama Governor's Mansion
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9: Hank Williams Gravesite
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10: Former Barrett Class Transport USNS Upshur (T-AP-198) / Training Ship State of Maine
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Now used as a US Navy fire research ship.
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11: Sharpe Field- once home to the Tuskegee Airmen
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Sharpe Field was also known as Tuskegee AAF during the Second World War and while current Tuskegee Airmen reunions are held at Moton Field nearby, Moton only did basic flight training and all advanced/operational flight training took place here at Sharpe Field.
The last advanced pilot training class graduated in 1946 and for a while Sharpe Field remained open as a civilian airport before closing around 1970-71.
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12: Steve Lowery's House
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The professional golfer lives here.
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13: Oteil Burbridge's House
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The bassist for The Allman Brothers Band lives here. He replaced the late Allen Woody in 2000. He also has a solo project called Oteil and the Peacemakers. In addtion, he was also founding member of the band the Aquarium Rescue Unit, and has worked with artists like Bruce Hampton, Trey Anastasio (Phish), God Street Wine, and others.
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14: Alabama Capitol Building
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15: 'Joe's Truck Stop' (ouch!)
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Joe's Truck Stop is a simple four foot thick wall placed at the bottom of a steep mountain road in Fort Payne, Alabama aka "sock capital of the world." The structure is reinforced with wire, pipe and the chassis from two Dodge trucks.
After one too many run ins, or perhaps a better term is run overs, of his front yard, ol' Joe Faulkner decided he had had enough and went about to put the brakes on these free wheeling good buddies who had whipped out every tree on his property.
The name Joe's Truck Stop was coined by local kids amused by the incidents. In 1950 alone, 13 rigs rolled through his humble domain. Every kind of truck from fruit to circus has taken a dump in Joe's yard.
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16: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Harris family
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The Harris family gained fame by giving birth to the first known surviving African-American sextuplets. Hurricane Ivan caused a tree to colapse on the house, damaging the living room. Along with their first child, the parents struggled to get by on the father's salary as a grade school teacher.
ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" built this 5000 square foot home for the family. Florence Henderson and the Muppets made an appearance on the show. Original airdate - March 6, 2005.
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17: Jake Peavy's House
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The professional baseball pitcher lives here.
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18: Football field inside of a race track
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Birmingham International Raceway has a high school football field in the infield. On the former grounds of the Alabama State Fair.
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19: Coast Guard Test Facility: Little Sand Island
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Three neval vessels in an island cove in Mobile, Alabama, possible waiting to be scrapped.
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20: Chemical Weapons Bunkers
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Anniston Army Depot Chemical Weapons Bunkers
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21: A-10 and helos in the woods
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Not sure if these are part of a test site or on display.
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22: US Space and Rocket Center
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US Space and rocket center featuring a Space Shuttle!
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23: Baseball diamonds
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George Ward Park
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26: Abandoned dragline excavator used for strip mining
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Dragline excavation systems are heavy equipment used in civil engineering and surface mining. In civil engineering the smaller types are used for road and port construction. The larger types are used in strip-mining operations to move overburden above coal, and for tar-sand mining. Draglines are amongst the largest mobile equipment (not water-borne), and weigh in the vicinity of 2000 metric tonnes, though specimens weighing up to 13,000 metric tonnes have also been constructed.
A dragline bucket system consists of a large bucket which is suspended from a boom (a large truss-like structure) with wire ropes. The bucket is maneuvered by means of a number of ropes and chains. The hoistrope, powered by large diesel or electric motors, supports the bucket and hoist-coupler assembly from the boom. The dragrope is used to draw the bucket assembly horizontally. By skillful maneuver of the hoist and the dragropes the bucket is controlled for various operations.
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27: Alabama Princess Riverboat
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It was formerly named Isabella Queen and Princess Red Wing. It was built as the Isabella Queen by LaCrosse Riverboat Co. for Padre Island Riverboat Corporation, South Padre Island, Texas. Four years later it was en route up the Mississippi at Keokuk, then reportedly owned by Anderson Brothers of St. Paul, Minn.
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28: Bryant-Denny Stadium
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Home to University of Alabama Crimson Tide football
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29: Talladega Speedway
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Talladega Superspeedway is a motorsports complex located in Talladega, Alabama, United States. It is located on an old abandoned airfield. It was constructed by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family, in the 1960's. Talladega is most known for its steep banking and the location of the start/finish line which is closer to turn one than at Daytona International Speedway. The track currently hosts the NASCAR series such as the Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series, and the Camping World Truck Series. Talladega Superspeedway is the longest NASCAR race track with a length of 2.66 miles (4.28 km), and the track also has a seating capacity of 175,000 spectators.
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30: Statue of Liberty replica
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As far as I know, the largest replica in the US and probably the world. It used to sit atop the Liberty National building in downtown Birmingham until it was moved right off Hwy. 280 on Liberty Parkway. It sits on a large pedestal and even has a real flame shooting out of the torch. [Mike Christopher, 02/19/1997]
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32: A-12 Blackbird on static display
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US Space and Rocket Center
Lockheed Blackbird A-12 SN: 60-6930
This particular aircraft was the only A-12 to remain in service after 1967 - the rest were mothballed at the Lockheed "Skunkworks" plant in Palmdale, CA until the early 1990's, when they were cut up and shipped all over the country to museums. Many are commonly, and mistakenly, billed as SR-71 Blackbirds.
This A-12 was transferred to NASA for high speed research which provided a wealth of information for the development of the Space Shuttle. It was later mothballed when NASA received two SR-71s for flight testing. NASA currently has only one flight ready SR-71 Blackbird, and it is the last flight worthy example of this magnificent aircraft.
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33: ABC Store
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This was the scene of a fatal robbery murder on September 21, 2002 committed by John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. A few weeks later, during the midst of the DC area sniper spree -- Malvo referred to this crime, from which police had retrieved his palm print and identified them, leading to their subsequent arrest. ABC Store Manager Claudine Parker was fatally shot during the robbery, while clerk Kelly Adams was maimed by a gunshot wound.
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34: Black T-38 Talon and admirers
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Black T-38s are flown exclusively by F-117 and U-2 pilots for proficiency training.
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35: Hyundai Training Center
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The Hyundai Training Center is where newly hired employees are trained. The building is clearly visible from Interstate 65 and is the most prominent building in the route. The Plant is located just behing the Training Center.
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36: Jordan-Hare Stadium
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Home to Auburn University Tigers football
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37: 2007-03-01 - Enterprise, Alabama High School tornado site
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"A massive tornado tore through Enterprise, Alabama, on March 1, 2007, leaving a swath of devastation about 180 meters (200 yards) wide through the small city. In the center of the storm’s path was Enterprise High School, where students sheltered in hallways as the tornado struck. The tornado ripped the roof off parts of the school, destroyed a hallway, the gym, and the stadium, said ABC News. By March 2, eight students were confirmed dead."
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38: To Kill a Mockingbird in Monroeville, Alabama.
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Monroeville, Alabama, is the town where author Harper Lee grew up, and which purportedly serves as the setting for the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, a semi-autobiographical account of her small-town Southern life, made famous by a movie of the same name staring Gregory Peck.
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39: Dock Landing Ship USS Shadwell (LSD-15) now a US Navy damage control test ship
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Took part in the invasions of Luzon and Leyte in WWII.
On November 10, 1988, the Shadwell, decommissioned and now known as the ex-USS Shadwell, was transferred to the Fire Research Detachment, Little Sands Island, Mobile Bay, Alabama. She is serving as a test and training platform in the development of fire models and other damage and control systems. Shadwell is on the stricken list and will eventually be disposed of upon the end of her use as a test and training platform.
Shadwell was grounded on Little Sand Island in Mobile Bay, Alabama, as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The ship was removed from the position of grounding in 2006. A U.S. Navy Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) assisted with the project.
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41: Ladd-Peebles Stadium
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42: Closed Phenix Regional Hospital
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Once called Cobb Memorial, this 56 year old hospital has been closed since March 31, 2002 due to financial difficulties.
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43: Carnival Cruise Ship 'Holiday'
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44: Legion Field
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"The Old Gray Lady" Was the home of Alabama vs. Auburn Games.
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45: Visionland
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Amusement park and water park near Birmingham, AL
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47: Statue of Vulcan
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There's a huge TV antenna just to the west too.
On the summit of Red Mountain, overlooking the heart of downtown Birmingham, stands a 56-foot statue of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire (aka God of the Forge). What is this pagan colossus doing on the virtual buckle of the Bible Belt?
Vulcan was sculpted by artist Giuseppe Moretti for steel town Birmingham as an exhibit for the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. He was (and still is) the world's largest cast metal statue and the largest statue ever made in the U.S. His height was originally planned for 50 feet, but when Birmingham learned that a pagan Buddha in Tokyo stood 52 feet tall, they made their pagan Vulcan four feet taller.
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48: Alabama State University Coliseum
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49: Gadsden Electric Generating Plant
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Located along the Coosa River in Gadsden.
Total nameplate generating capacity - 120,000 kW
Generating units - 2
Type of fuel - coal and natural gas
Owner - Alabama Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company
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50: Rockwell X-30 Prototype
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The X-30 National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) was an attempt by the United States to create a viable single stage to orbit (SSTO) spacecraft. The project was cancelled prior to the first craft being built.
A large, detailed scale mock up of the X-30 was built by engineering students at Mississippi State University's Raspet Flight Research Lab in Starkville, Mississippi. The mock up is currently on display at the U.S. Space Camp program facility in Huntsville, Alabama.
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51: Bobby Lowder's House
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Bobby Lowder is a former American banking executive, and founder and former longtime CEO of the failed Colonial Bank and Colonial BancGroup, Colonial Bank's former parent company.
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52: Greene County Electric Generating Plant
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Located along the Black Warrior River near Demopolis.
Total nameplate generating capacity - 1,220,000 kW
Generating units - 11
Type of fuel - coal, oil and gas
Owner - Alabama Power Co.
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53: Partially cloudy over Dothan Alabama
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Satellite mistake showing different weather conditions over Dothan Alabama
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54: Boeing 727-22C converted into Cooper T's Restaurant
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55: George C. Wallace Tunnel
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George Wallace tunnel is part of Interstate 10 and goes under Mobile River.
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56: Submarine USS Drum
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57: Mobile Bay Lighthouse
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58: Saturn V rocket
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The Saturn V (pronounced 'Saturn Five', popularly known as the Moon Rocket) was a multistage liquid-fuel expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs.
The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM as the lead contractors. It remains the most powerful launch vehicle ever brought to operational status, from a height, weight and payload standpoint, although the Russian Energia, which flew only two test missions, had slightly more takeoff thrust.
In all, NASA launched thirteen Saturn V rockets between 1967 and 1973, with no loss of payload. The design payload was the manned Apollo spacecraft used by NASA for moon landings, and the Saturn V went on to launch the Skylab space station.
At the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, made up of S-IC-D, S-II-F/D and S-IVB-D (all test stages not meant for actual flight)(soon to be moved to a new visitor's center).
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59: Surface to Air Missiles at Gadsden Municipal Airport
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60: Belingrath Gardens and Home
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The story of Bellingrath Gardens and Home began in 1903 when Walter Duncan Bellingrath purchased the franchise to bottle Coca-Cola in Mobile.
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61: Airplane landing at Birmingham International Airport
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62: Central Alabama Motor Speedway
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This high-banked 1/4 mile paved oval track closed in 1998. Several classes of street stock cars raced here on Friday nights. The track also went by the names of Jasper Speedway and Super Eight Speedway.
Not to be confused with a track with the same name in Clanton, Alabama.
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63: Full scale Skylab mock-up
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Skylab was the first space station the United States launched into orbit, and the second space station ever visited by a human crew. The 75 metric ton station was in Earth orbit from 1973 to 1979, and it was visited by crews three times in 1973 and 1974. It included a laboratory for studying the effects of microgravity and a solar observatory.
Two flight-quality Skylabs were built. The first was de-orbited and crashed in Western Australia in 1979; the second, a backup, is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. A full scale training mockup once used for astronaut training is located at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center visitor's center in Houston, Texas. Another full scale training mockup is now kept at Huntsville, Alabama, made from spare parts. It is currently being restored.
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64: Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama
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Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, LLC (HMMA) is the first Hyundai plant in the US. It openned in 2005 and employs nearly 2,000 people. The facility is built on 1,600 acres and has the capacity of assembling 300,000 vehicles per year.
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65: E. C. Gaston Electric Generating Plant
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Located along the Coosa River in Wilsonville.
Total nameplate generating capacity - 1,880,000 kW
Generating units - 6
Type of fuel - coal
Owner - Alabama Power Co.
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66: Munitions Bunkers - Redstone Arsenal
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More to the NE. Redstone Arsenal was a typical Chemical Warfare Service’ [CWS] plant. It was assigned the production of chemical shells ranging from 77-mm to 30- and l00-pound chemical bombs, and bursters for these items.
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67: Saturn V rocket (replica)
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At the US Space and Rocket Center.
For years, residents of Huntsville could point to the Saturn I in the center of the Space and Rocket Center as a distant landmark (the museum is located a few miles from the city center). In 1999, a model of the Saturn V was erected near the Saturn I, extending the reach of this unique form of landmark (the moon rocket is nearly twice as tall).
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68: Alabama Power Corporate HQs
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Corporate Headquarters Building for Alabama Power Co. Alabama Power is a subsidiary of Southern Company and generates electricity from coal, hydro, natural gas, oil and nuclear sources.
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69: Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex
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The BJCC is comprised of an arena, a theater, a concert hall, several exhibition halls, conference centre, and a Sheraton hotel.
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70: Royal Caribbean cruise ship in drydock
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71: Rickwood Field (Oldest Ballpark in America)
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Still used today by the B'ham Barons at least one game a year.
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72: Marshall Space Flight Center
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73: Antoine Dodson's House
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Kevin Antoine Dodson is a Huntsville, Alabama hero whose interview on local television became an internet meme and resulted in a auto-tuned song by The Gregory Brothers which "has sold thousands of copies on iTunes and appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 list". Dodson's interview was prompted by an attempted rape on his sister.
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74: Toth Stagefield Fort Rucker
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Toth Stagefield, Mother Rucker
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75: Holman Correctional Facility
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Alabama's maximum security state prison, opened in 1969. Home to the state death chamber.
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76: Cairns Army Airfield - tower
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The tower at Cairns Army Airfield, at Mother Rucker.
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77: Ivy Green - Helen Keller's childhood home
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Ivy Green (Helen Keller Birthplace)
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U.S. National Historic Landmark
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78: Bi-planes and helo
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Also, check out the really tall cell phone tower just to the east of the planes. You can see the shadow really well.
The helo is just to the right of the yellow plane. The grass runway runs to the north along the runway.
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79: Mercedes-Benz - Alabama Plant
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Build location of the M-class and R-class Mercedes SUV's.
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80: Sea Star Line 'El Faro'
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El Faro, formerly named the Northern Lights was operated by Totem Ocean Trailer Express in the Alaska trade and is coming off charter from the Military Sealift Command, servicing the Middle East. El Faro was modified by Atlantic Marine in Mobile, Alabama to a configuration similar to Sea Star's other vessels.
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81: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
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In this National Historic Landmark see the modest pulpit where Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. first preached his message of hope and brotherhood. This church was also a center point of the Montgomery bus boycott. A large mural in the church depicts King’s civil rights crusade from Montgomery to Memphis.
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83: Folland Gnat T.1 trainer
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84: Hoover Met Stadium
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Replaced Rickwood Field in Birmingham
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85: Convair TF-102A Delta Dagger
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To train F-102A pilots, 111 TF-102A trainers were developed. The aircraft was fitted with a side-by-side cockpit to facilitate ease of pilot training. This required a redesign of the cockpit and nose incorporating a set of vortex generators on the top of the cockpit to prevent flow separation under certain circumstances, and repositioning of the intake ducts. Despite the many changes, the aircraft was combat-capable, although this variant was predictably slower, only reaching subsonic speeds in level flight.
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86: TH-67 Creeks on Ft. Rucker Helicopter Training Pad
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Training helocopters at Ft. Rucker
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87: Former Brookley Air Force Base
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88: Southern Museum of Flight
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USAF A-12 (Later to be known as SR-71) Blackbird. Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, AL. Lots of other ground exhibits as well.
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89: Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant
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Construction of the plant began in 1970. Unit 1 achieved commercial operation in December 1977. Unit 2 began commercial operation in July 1981
Each unit is capable of generating 888 megawatts (mw) for a total capacity of 1,776 mw. The plant is powered by Westinghouse pressurized water reactors.
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90: World's largest office chair
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As seen in TAR8.
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91: 'S&M Building Materials'
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Interesting choice of name.
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92: 1903 Wright Flyer Reproduction
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The Wright Flyer (often retrospectively referred to as Flyer I and occasionally Kitty Hawk) was the first powered aircraft designed and built by the Wright brothers. The flight is recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, the standard setting and record-keeping body for aeronautics and astronautics, as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight".
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93: 'Joe's Truck Stop' (ouch!)
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Joe's Truck Stop is a simple four foot thick wall placed at the bottom of a steep mountain road in Fort Payne, Alabama aka "sock capital of the world." The structure is reinforced with wire, pipe and the chassis from two Dodge trucks.
After one too many run ins, or perhaps a better term is run overs, of his front yard, ol' Joe Faulkner decided he had had enough and went about to put the brakes on these free wheeling good buddies who had whipped out every tree on his property.
The name Joe's Truck Stop was coined by local kids amused by the incidents. In 1950 alone, 13 rigs rolled through his humble domain. Every kind of truck from fruit to circus has taken a dump in Joe's yard.
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95: Goldberg Stage Field Fort Rucker
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Goldberg Stagefield, CH-47s on the ramp, Mother Rucker
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97: F-86 on Middle School Roof
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Banks Middle School, Birmingham, Alabama
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98: Rockets on static display
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On Marshall Spaceflight Center / Redstone Arsenal.
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99: Cows (thirsty ones)
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The pond is lined with cows at the water's edge. Two more similar ponds just north.
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