Don't look at me, Tommy Tuberville said in November 1996 when certain names were brought up in connection with the Alabama coaching vacancy.

Talking on the phone to someone riding in a car might seem like an event ahead of its time in 1946, but not when the car belonged to the president of the phone company.

The second grading period for the school year in the Anniston district brought home to many households the full implication of "no-pass, no-play." For some it meant "no music, no ball."

The football team from the teachers college stepped up when an out-of-town team had to back out of a charity game on Thanksgiving Day in 1946.

Shannon Waters is the group sales and events coordinator at Cheaha State Park. She enjoyed visiting the park for years before submitting her resume “on a whim.” As the group sales and events coordinator, Waters oversees several popular park rental locations and helps renters find the best ve…

Assuming you lived anywhere near a broadcasting station, a TV set for Christmas might be a neat if expensive addition to an affluent household -- not that there was much organized programming in 1946.

On this date in 1996 it was that time of year again, when a little rudeness in behalf of your favorite Iron Bowl team was allowed and accommodated.

How dependent was the local economy on coal in 1946? A Page One story described how several Anniston industries would be affected by an extended national coal miners' strike.

School officials in 1996 gave Anniston parents and students a chance to improve academic grades — but it didn’t do much good.

A proposal to relocate Anniston’s youth sports teams from Ezell Park to fields next to the Lenlock Community Center raised questions for the Anniston City Council in mid-November 1996.

A nice old home on Quintard Avenue, at the southwest corner of 13th and Quintard, was listed for sale in November 1946 for $12,500. (Today that represents a home worth about $177,000, at least in inflation-adjusted dollars.)

Top JSU officials didn't want to talk about what they had done, but fans of football coach Bill Burgess had plenty to say about a change they think was unnecessary in November 1996.

She was discovered quite by chance in Piedmont in 1996, but the Jack’s restaurant representative who noticed Edna Burrows making biscuits in Piedmont thought she’d do well in a TV commercial. 

In mid-November 1996, Jacksonville State University football coach Bill Burgess learned his services would no longer be required.

The training period became shorter for recruits at Fort McClellan in November 1946, but one crucial component was added to that training: How to drive military motor vehicles.

In 1946 a fire station operated in Anniston at 10th and Wilmer, but a plan announced in November of that year would have the operation transferred to the main station beside City Hall.

In the second Christmas after peace, toy shelves such as the one at Sears presented a tempting array of products, even as far out as mid-November.

Anniston school officials in November 1996 were hoping they’d be able to round up enough help to run Internet-capable cables in the elementary buildings on a particular day in December. 

Dr. Houston Cole, former president of the university in Jacksonville, died on the morning on Nov. 11, 1996, a full obituary on that day tells us.

Cody Willis and Kat Danford own CoCo’s Cody’s Collectibles and More in Oxford. The shop features equipment for games like Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer, Funko POPs and more.

It was announced in November 1946 that Fort McClellan would be one of six Army centers at which training of recruits will be continued.

Dramatic plays on Nov. 8, 1996, put both Anniston and Saks into the high school football playoffs for that season.

In 1996, Anniston had had a sister city in Japan for the previous ten years, but not a lot had been done to cultivate that relationship.