The NY Times travel series "36 Hours In..." features Birmingham today. It's a positive review, as most are, with little criticism except this true observation: "To get around the city, you’ll need a rental car; cabs are scarce beyond the airport, and bus service is threadbare." Vulcan gets proper notice, as does the Civil Rights Institute, the 16th Street Baptist Church, and the Barber Vintage Motorsports Musuem. The featured picture is inside Highlands Bar and Grill, but Little Savannah and Miss Myra’s Pit Bar-B-Q ("...the décor of the former convenience store is mostly a celebration of the past glory of the Crimson Tide.") also get billing. Not a bad review, especially for Yankees who may think of Alabama's largest city as a center for steel and racial hatred.
Birmingham is no longer the "Magic City."
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Is the NYT's "review" a glossing over of the city?
Perhaps, yes.
Frankly, I found the article less than entertaining, and were I inclined to travel based upon that series, I would not entertain Birmingham.
In my opinion, the writer did a phenomenally poor job.
Someone needs to send the NYT to
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It will knock their black socks and sandles off. (Lewis Grizzard once explained that Northerners vacationing in the South wearing socks and sandles was the cause of the Civil War.)
I think that should be sandals.......arggghhhhh!
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