Sex In Alabama
Check out this for a business name “Game Cock Jewelry & Pawn“. Memorable but not one that I’d have chosen because it comes up on the wrong type of Internet searches.
Extensive research on Google Street View has led me to believe that the zip code of the premises is slightly out as I’ve done a virtual walk down Pelham Road South in Jacksonville and I can’t see the sign.
Maybe you guys will have better luck. LOL
Ah Ha! Late edit, found the place it’s on the east side of Pelham Road between Adelaide St SW and Tarver St SE. Check it out on Google Street View
alex,
there is in that town an institution of, shall we say, higher learning called jacksonville state university. it awards degrees in a number of fields, including sports, education, “i came here because i did not want to get a job-itis”, and stuff like that. it is not exactly like oxford, but few institutions are like oxford other that oxford itself. i am told, to be honest, that their business college is quite good.
the sports teams at this bastion of alabama education are called the gamecocks, reflecting a time when the good men and women of alabama engaged in the sport of cockfighting, which isn’t as kinky as it sounds. if you look at their logo you will its historic ties to the manly sport of pissing roosters off to the point where one kills the other in a restricted pit, all for the enjoyment and wagering opportunities of the gathered and cheering throngs. alabama has much to offer besides scenic beauty.
we once had something called rooster bridge, which was a bridge at moscow (before the civil war a small cotton-farming community with its own issues, now defunct) alabama crossing the tombigbee river. it was paid for by the rich and famous of alabama donating fighting roosters that were then auctioned off to the highest bidder. my great-great grandfather donated a bunch of fighting roosters to the auction, hoping to get a bridge built as soon as humanly possible. a huge number of cocks gave their lives for that bridge, that served its purposes, was replaced by a newer structure on another roadway, and torn down. there is a monument to the glory of rooster bridge at what is left of moscow, a barge-fueling depot called moscow landing.
interestingly enough, the Cretaceous – Tertiary boundary is exposed in the river banks at moscow landing, and, geologically speaking aspect of moscow is far more famous than rooster bridge ever was. imagine, the end of the age of reptiles and the dawn of the age of mammals, and you can go there and put your finger on that spot in the rock record where it happened. damn science is cool!
as an aside, the tombigbee is now part of the tennessee-tombigbee waterway, constructed by the corps of engineers to link the tennessee river directly to the port of mobile, at a cost of several billions of dollars. the hoped for increase in barge traffic using the port of mobile never materialized, but those senators and congressmen still got their port barrel appropriations for alabama.
in 2007 the united states supreme court refused to hear an appeal of alabama’s law forbidding the sale of sex toys. what kind of world is it when you have to drive to mississippi just to buy a dildo or a butt plug?
cheers,
weird