Tours-TV.com: Mobile Carnival Museum
If you have never had a chance to see the famous Mardi Gras Carnival, you can make up for it in the Mobile Carnival Museum in the state of Alabama. . United States : Alabama. See on map .
C-SPAN Cities Tour - Mobile: The Origins of Mardi Gras in Mobile
Learn the origins of Mardi Gras in the United States with a visit to the Mobile Carnival Museum. Mobile was the first capital of French Louisiana, and it was the French Catholic settlers that brought an early version of the Mardi Gras festival to the territory. Hear about the settlers who brought this tradition here and how the people of Mobile celebrate their heritage today.
Holiday Inn Mobile Downtown Historic District in Mobile AL
Book here: . . . . . . . .. .. ... . . . . Holiday Inn Mobile Downtown Historic District 301 Government Street Mobile AL 36602 This downtown Mobile, Alabama hotel is next to the Mobile Carnival Museum, celebrating the history of Mardi Gras. It features an on-site restaurant, bar and rooms with free Wi-Fi. Holiday Inn Mobile Downtown Historic District offers spacious rooms furnished with a microwave and refrigerator. Each air-conditioned room includes a cable TV, work desk and coffee maker. Layfayette’s Restaurant serves American cuisine for breakfast and dinner at the Mobile Holiday Inn. A variety of drinks and beautiful views of Mobile Bay can be enjoyed at the rooftop Skyview Lounge. Guests of the Downtown Historic District Holiday Inn can work out in the gym or swim in the outdoor pool. The business center offers fax and copy services. USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park is a 6-minute drive from the Holiday Inn. The Mobile Civic Center is 4 blocks away.
Mardi Gras Parade in Mobile Alabama
Mardi Gras Parade in Mobile Alabama Fat Tuesday celebration Home of the Original Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras in Mobile is the oldest annual Carnival celebration in the United States, having begun in 1703, The festival was a French Catholic tradition, reflecting the French colonial status of the first capital of La Louisiane. Settlers celebrated until midnight on Fat Tuesday, before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile have evolved into a citywide multi-week celebration.
This is part three of a four-part series on Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama.
Part One: Parade - Birthplace of Mardi Gras can be seen at:
Part Two: Parade Part Two can be seen at:
Part Four: Mardi Gras Float Storage Barn in Mobile, Alabama can be seen at:
For more videos of the local area
Admiral Simms House
Admiral Simms Statue
AfricaTown-Cochrane
Bankhead Tunnel
Cathedral Square
Charlotte House
Fort Conde
Mobile flea Market
Mobile Police Museum
Oakleigh House
Phoenix Fire Museum
USS Alabama Memorial Park, Inside USS Drum
USS Alabama Memorial Park, Touring Inside
USS Alabama Memorial Park, Walking the Deck
USS Alabama Memorial Park, A Walk in Park
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Mobile, Alabama | Wikipedia audio article
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Mobile, Alabama
00:02:28 1 Etymology
00:03:08 2 History
00:03:17 2.1 Colonial
00:08:00 2.2 19th century
00:13:19 2.3 20th century
00:21:49 3 Geography and climate
00:21:59 3.1 Geography
00:22:47 3.2 Neighborhoods
00:23:11 3.3 Climate
00:25:27 3.3.1 Christmas Day tornado
00:26:58 4 Culture
00:28:02 4.1 Carnival and Mardi Gras
00:31:01 4.2 Archives and libraries
00:32:45 4.3 Arts and entertainment
00:36:44 5 Tourism
00:36:53 5.1 Museums
00:39:17 5.2 Parks and other attractions
00:41:35 5.3 Historic architecture
00:45:06 6 Demographics
00:47:35 7 Government
00:50:00 8 Education
00:50:08 8.1 Public facilities
00:50:56 8.2 Private facilities
00:52:20 8.3 Tertiary
00:52:29 8.4 Primary and secondary
00:52:54 8.4.1 Undergraduate and postgraduate
00:54:46 8.4.2 Community college
00:55:09 8.4.3 Vocational
00:55:39 9 Healthcare
00:57:48 10 Economy
00:58:49 10.1 Major industry
00:58:57 10.1.1 Port of Mobile
00:59:37 10.1.2 Shipyards
01:00:44 10.1.3 Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley
01:03:01 10.1.4 ThyssenKrupp
01:03:52 10.2 Top employers
01:04:09 10.3 Unemployment rate
01:04:37 11 Transportation
01:04:47 11.1 Air
01:05:25 11.2 Rail
01:06:27 11.3 Roadways
01:08:14 11.4 Water
01:10:36 12 Media
01:10:44 12.1 Print
01:11:24 12.2 Television
01:12:34 12.3 Radio
01:13:33 13 Sports
01:13:42 13.1 Football
01:14:55 13.2 Baseball
01:15:33 13.3 Basketball
01:15:52 13.4 Other sports and facilities
01:16:55 14 Sister cities
01:17:09 15 Tunnels
01:17:28 16 See also
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Mobile ( moh-BEEL; French pronunciation: [mɔ.bil]) is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 as of the 2010 United States Census, making it the third most populous city in Alabama, the most populous in Mobile County, and the largest municipality on the Gulf Coast between New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Petersburg, Florida.
Alabama's only saltwater port, Mobile is located on the Mobile River at the head of the Mobile Bay and the north-central Gulf Coast. The Port of Mobile has always played a key role in the economic health of the city, beginning with the settlement as an important trading center between the French colonists and Native Americans, down to its current role as the 12th-largest port in the United States.Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile metropolitan area. This region of 412,992 residents is composed solely of Mobile County; it is the third-largest metropolitan statistical area in the state. Mobile is the largest city in the Mobile-Daphne−Fairhope CSA, with a total population of 604,726, the second largest in the state. As of 2011, the population within a 60-mile (100 km) radius of Mobile is 1,262,907.Mobile was established in 1702 by the French as the first capital of colonial La Louisiane (New France). During its first 100 years, Mobile was a colony of France, then Britain, and lastly Spain. Mobile first became a part of the United States of America in 1813, with the annexation by President James Madison of West Florida from Spain. In 1861, Alabama joined the Confederate States of America, which surrendered in 1865.Considered one of the Gulf Coast's cultural centers, Mobile has several art museums, a symphony orchestra, professional opera, professional ballet company, and a large concentration of historic architecture. Mobile is known for having the oldest organized Carnival or Mardi Gras celebrations in the United States. Its French Catholic colonial settlers celebrated this festival from the first decade of the 18th century. Beginning in 1830, Mobile was host to the first formally organized Carnival mystic society to celebrate with a parade in the United States. (In New Orleans such a group is called a krewe.)
Mardi Gras Parade Mobile, Alabama Part 2
Mardi Gras Parade in Mobile Alabama Fat Tuesday celebration Home of the Original Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras in Mobile is the oldest annual Carnival celebration in the United States, having begun in 1703, The festival was a French Catholic tradition, reflecting the French colonial status of the first capital of La Louisiane. Settlers celebrated until midnight on Fat Tuesday, before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile have evolved into a citywide multi-week celebration.
This is part two of a four-part series on Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama.
Part One: Parade - Birthplace of Mardi Gras can be seen at:
Part Three: Mardi Gras Parade in Mobile can be seen at:
Part Four: Mardi Gras Float Storage Barn in Mobile, Alabama can be seen at:
For more videos of the local area
Admiral Simms House
Admiral Simms Statue
AfricaTown-Cochrane
Bankhead Tunnel
Cathedral Square
Charlotte House
Fort Conde
Mobile flea Market
Mobile Police Museum
Oakleigh House
Phoenix Fire Museum
USS Alabama Memorial Park, Inside USS Drum
USS Alabama Memorial Park, Touring Inside
USS Alabama Memorial Park, Walking the Deck
USS Alabama Memorial Park, A Walk in Park
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Mobile, AL - Welcome to the Mobile Bay Area!
Welcome to beautiful Mobile, Alabama! I am Alesia Parker and I am an associate broker for the leading real estate company on Alabama's Gulf Coast, Roberts Brothers. Whether you are thinking of relocating to Mobile or you are just curious about what Alabama's only port city has to offer, you have come to the right place. Mobile, and the surrounding areas, are truly diverse and have something for everyone.
What is your idea of the perfect place to call home?
If you like to be near an area rich in history and culture, while keeping your finger on the pulse of everything happening in the city, then the Downtown and Midtown residential areas may be just the ticket.
Let's say you prefer to spread out a little in a more suburban setting, surrounded by athletic fields and parks but just a skip to shopping. Then West Mobile may be your fit.
But, the suburbs are still too crowded for your taste? Don't worry. We have an answer for that as well. Bring your horses if you want to the rural areas of Mobile County. And still be within a short drive from everything!
But let's say that dipping your toes in the water at the end of everyday is your idea of a dream home. Well, you have come to the right place! Mobile offers waterfront property in numerous shapes and sizes.
Over the next several videos, we are going to explore the each residential section of Mobile and the surrounding areas, as well as a some history and little know facts about Alabama's oldest city!
Thanks for watching.
Austal, USA: Shipbuilding in Mobile, Alabama
A 7th grader interviews her father and U.S. Navy veteran, Percy Gilmore, about his role as a technical writer with Austal USA, located on Blakeley Island in Mobile, Alabama. Austal USA employees over 4,000 people to build commercial and defense aluminum vessels. #ALABAMA200
Quality Inn Downtown Historic District in Mobile AL
Book here: . . .. .. ... . . . . . . .. .. .. Quality Inn Downtown Historic District 255 Church Street Mobile AL 36602 The Quality Inn Downtown Historic District hotel in Mobile, Alabama is in the historic area of downtown Mobile, within walking distance of the Mobile Civic Center, Mobile Convention Center and the nightlife on Dauphin Street. Additional attractions just a short drive from this hotel include Mobile Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mobile Zoo and various Florida beaches. The hotel is located near restaurants, the Gulf Coast Exploreum, the Mobile Carnival Museum and Mobile's Saenger Theatre. Guests at this hotel can enjoy the hotel’s seasonal outdoor pool. Other amenities include free continental breakfast, free wireless high-speed internet access, free newspaper and free local calls. All guest rooms include cable TV, a desk, a hairdryer, and ironing facilities. Select rooms feature a high-definition TV, a microwave and a refrigerator. For guest convenience, laundry facilities are available, as well as plenty of parking. Business travelers can appreciate access to copy and fax services.
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VERIFY: Is Mobile, Ala., home to the first Mardi Gras in the U.S.?
The Big Easy and Mobile have always had something of a friendly rivalry about which city can claim to be home to the first Mardi Gras in the United States.
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A visit to the Alabama Museum
We take an inside look at the Alabama Museum in Alabama, NY. The museum resides in an old school house and features artifacts from the town's past.
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Race Relations in Mobile
MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) Local 15's Town Hall meeting, 'Race Relations in Mobile,' is set to begin Tuesday from Davidson High School's auditorium. You can watch the Town Hall on UTV44 and on local15tv.com.
The conversation on race relations began earlier this year following the contentious appointment of former Mayor Sam Jones to the MAWSS Board. But the history of race relations in the Port City goes back further than that.
The fight for equal rights in Alabama is well documented. But there's one large Alabama city that seemed to stay out of the harsh media light of the 1960's: Mobile, Alabama.
Mobile still has protests about school desegregation, voting rights. But while things are breaking down in Birmingham, while things are happening in Selma, Mobile was just on a different trajectory, said Scotty Kirkland, History Museum of Mobile.
In 1956, Alabama outlawed the NAACP. John LeFlore, a local black civil rights leader in Mobile, supported its replacement, the Non Partisan Voters League. White politician Joe Langan forged a partnership with LeFlore and the league that reflected his own personal feelings about racial equality. But it also helped Langan acquire something of great value that blacks in Mobile now possessed: The vote.
With the help of black voters, Langan would go on to become Mayor of Mobile.
If you look at the desegregation of the Mobile police force, the Mobile fire dept, the public library and the golf course, most fo these things are timed for elections. Yes, they're things that are promoted as good will by both sides, but they are also political concessions for black votes. And that's something people forget, Kirkland added.
The simple handshake between Langan and LeFlore has come to symbolize a sort of civil stability in Mobile at a time in the '50s and '60's when the rest of the state seemed to be out of control. But make no mistake about it, history will show Mobile has had its share of racial strife.
World War II was the great watershed in Mobile's racial history, because in 1942 we had a young Afican American soldier who was shot and killed on a city bus by a bus driver, who actually was not prosecuted for that act. And then in 1943, the following year we had the race riot at ADDSCO, primarily because some African American workers received equal pay for the same work, said David Ashbrook with the History Museum of Mobile.
But even modern day Mobile couldn't escape deeply rooted racial hate. In 1981, black teenager Michael Donald was hanged near his midtown home. Several Ku Klux Klansmen were tried for the murder, one of those convicted was executed.
Less than a decade later, Mobile would see significant strides in the advancement of African Americans in the city. In 1990 Mayor Mike Dow appointed Harold Johnson as the city's first black police chief. In 2005 Sam Jones was elected as Mobile's first African American mayor.
But it's the struggle from those earlier years that local historians say is often overlooked by both black and white in Mobile,
We don't really study that period in our recent past very thoroughly. We don't teach it in the schools as much, and we don't read as much as we used to. And we don't talk to each others as much, Ashbrook added.
Driving through Mobile, Alabama
Mobile (/moʊˈbiːl/ moh-BEEL, French: [mɔbil] (About this soundlisten)) is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 as of the 2010 United States Census, making it the third most populous city in Alabama, the most populous in Mobile County, and the largest municipality on the Gulf Coast between New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Petersburg, Florida.
Alabama's only saltwater port, Mobile is located on the Mobile River at the head of the Mobile Bay and the north-central Gulf Coast. The Port of Mobile has always played a key role in the economic health of the city, beginning with the settlement as an important trading center between the French colonists and Native Americans, down to its current role as the 12th-largest port in the United States.
Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile metropolitan area. This region of 412,992 residents is composed solely of Mobile County; it is the third-largest metropolitan statistical area in the state.Mobile is the largest city in the Mobile-Daphne−Fairhope CSA, with a total population of 604,726, the second largest in the state. As of 2011, the population within a 60-mile (100 km) radius of Mobile is 1,262,907.
Mobile was founded in 1702 by the French as the first capital of Louisiana. During its first 100 years, Mobile was a colony of France, then Britain, and lastly Spain. Mobile became a part of the United States in 1813, with the annexation by President James Madison of West Florida from Spain. The city surrendered to Federal forces on April 12, 1865, after Union victories at two forts protecting the city. This, along with the news of Johnston's surrender negotiations with Sherman, led Taylor to seek a meeting with his Union counterpart, Maj. Gen. Edward R. S. Canby. The two generals met several miles north of Mobile on May 2. After agreeing to a 48-hour truce, the generals enjoyed an al fresco luncheon of food, drink, and lively music. Canby offered Taylor the same terms agreed upon between Lee and Grant. Taylor accepted the terms and surrendered his command on May 4 at Citronelle, Alabama.
Considered one of the Gulf Coast's cultural centers, Mobile has several art museums, a symphony orchestra, professional opera, professional ballet company, and a large concentration of historic architecture. Mobile is known for having the oldest organized Carnival or Mardi Gras celebrations in the United States. Its French Catholic colonial settlers celebrated this festival from the first decade of the 18th century. Beginning in 1830, Mobile was host to the first formally organized Carnival mystic society to celebrate with a parade in the United States. (In New Orleans such a group is called a krewe.)
An Inside Look At Mobile's Newest Downtown Hotel
The Hilton Garden Inn is set to open next Wednesday, February first and they’re already at 40% capacity for Mardi Gras weekend.
Aboard the USS Mobile Bay, Testing all the weapons it carries including the 5in rounds.
Copy of Honeymoon Part 2 - Maldives (MOBILE)
Honeymoon Part 2 - Maldives
Mobile Police Museum
Mobile Police Museum in Mobile, Alabama
The Dauphin Street Police Precinct and Museum is a combination live police station and a police museum. The museum, located across the street from Cathedral Square, has a number of interesting displays.
There is a history of the weapons used over the past 174 years by the department. You will see nightsticks of various types and a Pepper Fog machine. The machine's name says it all - a gasoline engine-powered mechanism that produced an early form of tear gas used mainly primarily for crowd control.
For more videos of the local area
Admiral Simms House
Admiral Simms Statue
AfricaTown-Cochrane
Bankhead Tunnel
Cathedral Square
Charlotte House
Fort Conde
Mardi Gras Parade, Part 1 (Birthplace)
Mardi Gras Parade, Part 2
Mardi Gras Parade in Mobile
Mardi Gras Crew of Columbus Barn
Mobile flea Market
Mobile Police Museum
Oakleigh House
Phoenix Fire Museum
USS Alabama Memorial Park, Inside USS Drum
USS Alabama Memorial Park, Touring Inside
USS Alabama Memorial Park, Walking the Deck
USS Alabama Memorial Park, A Walk in Park
For more of our travel videos, please go to
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