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Monday, June 29. 2009

Thanks, friends

Thanks, y'all, for putting us up in these fine lodgings in Birmingham (photos below), for the fine very Southern-style party (with excellent grits 'n shrimp), and for showing us around.


Can any reader name this good old club?



 View from our balcony:



 

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 05:35 | Comments (13) | Trackbacks (0)

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Never been there, but appears to be The Southern Colonial Club.
#1 bob on 2009-06-29 07:15 (Reply)
No, try again.
#1.1 bd on 2009-06-29 07:28 (Reply)
There's an ashtray! Must be the old Birmingham Country Club.
#2 HappyAcres on 2009-06-29 07:51 (Reply)
No.
Ashtrays are not a rarity in Alabama.
#2.1 Bird Dog on 2009-06-29 08:03 (Reply)
Mountain Brook CC?
#3 The Distributist on 2009-06-29 09:08 (Reply)
A gold star to you, Mr. D.
#3.1 Bird Dog on 2009-06-29 09:18 (Reply)
I have played a great deal of golf in the area, but could not fit this course in. The Mrs. and I are seriously considering relocating out of the rising Gulf of Maine and into the Alabama area. She Who Must Be Obeyed, of, course, doesn't know that yet.
#4 The Distributist on 2009-06-29 09:34 (Reply)
Problem is that there is no good, cold salt water anywhere near by.
#4.1 Bird Dog on 2009-06-29 09:51 (Reply)
Bird Dog ... No good cold salt water nearby means no wonderful delicious lobster to eat. And much as I like crab, which is plentiful in warmer salt water, I simply adore lobster, whether Maine lobster, or langoustine, a treat I haven't had for years, but which comes from cold waters off Scandinavia and Scotland. You Upper East Coasters have discovered langoustine, which is offered in pricey restaurants in New York and the Mainline, but we used to get them in Wisconsin, shipped in by air from Scandinavia and the British Isles. And what a feast they are. But expensive even then.

Marianne
#5 Marianne Matthews on 2009-06-29 10:18 (Reply)
Mountain Brook. Truly, BD, you do NOT want to move to Mountain Brook. No, no, no, no, no.
#6 jma on 2009-06-29 12:45 (Reply)
now what is the basis of that opinion?
#6.1 kab on 2009-06-29 15:47 (Reply)
Ditto to Kab. Seems like a darn pleasant and civilized place to me. Excepting no icy salt water.
#6.1.1 Bird Dog on 2009-06-29 16:02 (Reply)
Take a day trip to Mobile Bay for some warm salt water, jumbo, white gulf shrimp. Fresh off the boats.
#6.1.1.1 ron on 2009-06-29 17:30 (Reply)

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