Zero , Northwest Florida: 07/25/2010

Saturday, July 31, 2010

M~
Lee is crazy to find out ANYTHING about G.H. "Hub" Kyser from Selma.

Anything you can do will be appreciated.

best,
r

SELMA'S Hub Kyser ~ Captain of the University of Alabama Second Football Team of 1893 (ed. note: Instead of wearing helmets, they let their hair grow long during the off season.)

Here's the stats on the CRIMSON TIDE'S 1892 team, the frist team, from Lee Pake's '93 Corolla!

Hub Kyser is #17

left to right: J.I. Burgett,
Captain; "Hub" Kyser,
Merrill P. Northington

Cadet G.H. Kyser
Kyser scored a touchdown on a 50 yd. run in BAMA's first game played under inter-collegiate rules against a B'ham high school team on November 11, 1892. BAMA won 56 to 0.

Robert,

I hear through M. that you are looking for info about 'Hub' Kyser. He was George Herbert Kyser, b. 9/23/1874. His parents were Dr. George Washington Kyser and Sallie Patton of Carlowville in south Dallas county. There were many, many members of this family who lived in the Carlowville area - still a few there. And there are many descendants still in Dallas Co. and elsewhere in Alabama.

Hub Kyser lived in Selma as an adult and had a drugstore. He and his wife Adabelle Moore had 4 children. The youngest daughter Sarah married R.R. Miree of Birmingham who started Miree Construction Co. Hub's grandsons still live in Birmingham.

Hope you are well!
Anne

Anne,
Thank you so much.

I suspected that Kyser Miree was related to Hub. He's the young man who was murdered in Mobile back in April.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20011635-504083.html

best,
r

Friday, July 30, 2010

Robert Register Here's something else from the Pake Realty Archives ~ Timothy Leary's Senior portrait from the '43 Corolla. He got his degree in Psychology from BAMA that spring.

Robert Register Ramsey was right! "Timothy Leary; Theta Chi : Springfield, Mass.; Arts and Sciences" is pictured on page 117 of the '43 Corolla. "Ramsey Neil Metcalf; Pi Kappa Alpha: Hartford; Law" is on page 118.

Robert Register The cover of the '43 Corolla. I knew playing quarterback had to be good for something.

Robert Register Something else you don't see every day~ Don Hutson & Bear Bryant's dry cleaning ad from the '39 Corolla

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Who is this cat who played with the Tuscaloosa All Stars?

He is Art Schilling. Keyboard player and actor. He was the red neck deputy sheriff in the movie "A Gathering of Old Men"

Hopper

Monday, July 26, 2010

Saturday August 28th
1st Johnny Shines Blues Festival @ Tuscaloosa AL. Begins noon. Contact 205-887-6859 or 404-379-0096.

1^st Annual Johnny Shines Blues Festival

August 28, 2010

Noon – 7pm

SCHEDULE

Noon: Gates open

1:00 Welcome by the Mayor

Pam Ruff

Hal Reed

2:00 Li’ Gee Weevil

Kent Duchaine

3:00 Kent Burnside & the New Generation

4:00 DieDra & the Ruff Pro Band

5:00 Carroline Shines

6:00 Bobby Rush

The Festival will end at 7pm.

Coolers, lawn chairs and blankets are welcome. Please no alcohol.

Security will be provided by off-duty law enforcement

B~

Get 'em to come up with a number of tickets per $100 donation, $500 donation, $1000 donation.
Those tickets would be great for our "BETTER" tenants & we got A TON within a few blocks
(is that what they call them in Holt?) of you.

Lee owns houses on Pinecrest, Universal Heights, 19th St. NE, 36th Ave. NE, 17th St. NE, 15th St. NE, Crescent Ridge, Keene Dr., 6th St. E. & Virginia Dr.

best,
r

Hi Roberto,

I was in Tuscaloosa in school, a couple of years ahead of you--probably overlapping you a bit. I think we were friends with some of the same people, including Marshal Hagler. I have wondered over the years what happened to Art Schilling, where he was, etc., and sad to came across the fact that he died. Very sorry to hear that. Can you tell me what happened to him--how he died and when?

Thank you.

Best,
T

FROM BRUCE:

I do not know any details of his death. I only learned that he died sometime after he played the deputy sheriff in the movie with Lou Gossett being the sheriff in rural south with the flying nun starring in the lead role.

Got the movie stuff wrong. Holly Hunter was the female lead and Richard Widmark was the sheriff in the movie "A gathering of old men" Gossett played the black handy man and Art was the racist deputy sheriff. Small role, but he was able to portray all the redneck racist that he grew up with in Alabama. I got a pic of him by Marshal.

Robert,
Sorry I attached a bad pic. Here is a better(?) one of Art Schilling (left) and Charlie Hayward.

Did you get the email that Art died in 2003 of cancer?

Bruce

"Photo 2. Somebody's front porch in T-Town. Sitting - Lou Mullinex (always liked that picture of Lordy Lou), Standing left to right - Jennifer Toffel (now Mrs. T.), The late Art Schilling (miss that boy) and Jenny Fraley. *PHOTO BY JENNIFER TOFFEL"
- JOHNNY TOWNSEND http://www.johntown.com/

Subject: Ayn Rand Playboy Interview

Here's Ayn Rand's '64 Playboy Interview:
http://www.ellensplace.net/ar_pboy.html

BOY HOWDY!!!!
We had a BLAST @ BOTTLETREE http://www.ticketbiscuit.com/bottletree/eventspotlight.aspx on 3rd Ave.S. in B'ham Sattiddee afternoon with THE LOCUST FORK BAND! http://www.locustforkband.com/

Frank Bromberg, Macey Taylor http://www.myspace.com/taylorbroadcastservices & John McClusky

BOTTLETREE http://www.ticketbiscuit.com/bottletree/eventspotlight.aspx

THE LOCUST FORK BAND! http://www.locustforkband.com/

BOTTLETREE http://www.ticketbiscuit.com/bottletree/eventspotlight.aspx

Macey Taylor http://www.myspace.com/taylorbroadcastservices
playing keys on ONE WAY OUT.
Had flashbacks of THE BEAST & BETTY gettin' caught by CRAIG in the little cottage behind 1519!