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Bessemer is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States and a southwestern suburb of Birmingham. The population was 26,019 at the 2020 census. [4] It is within the Birmingham–Hoover, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area, of which Jefferson County is the center. It developed rapidly as an industrial city in the late 19th and early 20th ...
Later became the "Bessemer Hall of History", a museum. It is a Prairie Style-influenced brick railroad passenger station. [2] Bessemer City Hall (1938–41), 1800 Third Avenue., a three-story buff brick building built in a modified Art Deco style, as a Works Progress Administration project. It has a square corner clock tower with the old City ...
The restaurant was founded in 1907 by Tom Bonduris, an immigrant from Greece. [1] [2] When it opened it had seating for 25, and eventually it expanded to over 300. [2] The restaurant was owned by Bill and Pete Koikos in 1925. It was owned by Koikos and his sons Jim and Nick in 1968. In 2019 it was owned by Nick Koikos. [2] [3]
Westlake Mall was built on a former lake bed, along US Highway 11.The mall opened in 1969 with three anchors, Sears, Grant's, and Loveman's. In 1970, former Governor George Wallace held a campaign event for re-election at the mall that was estimated to be attended by 10,000 people, one of the biggest turnouts during his last gubernatorial race.
Loveman's opened its first suburban branch store in Montgomery's Normandale Shopping Center in 1954. In 1966, a store came inline in Huntsville's The Mall. The first Metro Birmingham branch was dedicated, in 1969, at Bessemer's West Lake Mall. Branch stores followed at Fairfield's Western Hills Mall (1970) and Birmingham's Century Plaza (1976).
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In 1959, the City of Bessemer abruptly condemned the church's building, which had been first built in 1889 and expanded in 1908. The twin-tower church was an African-American landmark within Bessemer and the congregation had ensured that it received numerous updates and improvements during the Browder years to keep it safe and comfortable. [2] [4]