Birmingham - Alabama - 4K Downtown Drive
Afternoon drive in and around the downtown area of Birmingham, AL.
Filmed: April 2021
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From Wikipedia:
Birmingham (/ˈbɜːrmɪŋhæm/ BUR-ming-ham) is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. With an estimated population of 209,403 in 2019, it is the most populous city in Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous and fifth largest county by area. As of 2018, the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 1,151,801, making it the most populous in Alabama and 49th-most populous in the United States. Birmingham serves as an important regional hub and is associated with the Deep South, Piedmont, and Appalachian regions of the nation.
Birmingham was founded in 1871, during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, through the merger of three farm towns, most notably Elyton. The new city was named for Birmingham, England, the United Kingdom's second largest city and then a major industrial city. The Alabama city annexed its smaller neighbors as it developed into a major industrial center based on mining, the iron and steel industry, and rail transport. Most of the original settlers were of English ancestry. The city was developed as a place where low paid, non-unionized immigrants (mainly Irish and Italian), along with African-Americans from rural Alabama, worked in the city's steel mills and blast furnaces and gave it a competitive advantage over unionized industrial cities of the Midwest and Northeast
From its founding through the end of the 1960s, Birmingham was a primary industrial center of the southern United States. Its rapid growth from 1881 through 1920 earned it the nicknames "The Magic City" and "The Pittsburgh of the South". Its major industries were iron and steel production. Major components of the railroad industry, including rails and railroad cars, were made in Birmingham. The two primary hubs of railroading in the "Deep South" have been Birmingham and Atlanta. The economy began to diversify in the latter half of the twentieth century, as the steel mills began to shut down. Banking, telecommunications, transportation, electric power transmission, medical care, college education, and insurance have become its major economic activities. Birmingham now ranks as one of the largest banking centers in the U.S. It is also one of the important business centers of the Southeast.
In higher education, the Birmingham area has major colleges of medicine, dentistry, optometry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, pharmacy, law, engineering, and nursing. Birmingham has been the location of the University of Alabama School of Medicine (formerly the Medical College of Alabama) and the University of Alabama School of Dentistry since 1947. In 1969, it gained the University of Alabama at Birmingham, one of three main campuses of the University of Alabama System. It is also home to three private colleges: Samford University, Birmingham-Southern College, and Miles College. The city has three of the state's five law schools: Cumberland School of Law, Birmingham School of Law, and Miles Law School. Jefferson State and Lawson State Community Colleges are also located in the city. Birmingham is also the headquarters of the Southwestern Athletic Conference and the Southeastern Conference, one of the major U.S. collegiate athletic conferences.
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I have grown up and lived in the Birmingham area for 59 years cool to see on video. Thanks for your time,enjoyed the video,looking forward to the next one.
@rajatsagwal4505
2 жыл бұрын
Great for you to remember your days here
I love Birmingham I just really wish they would do something about all the abandoned buildings/homes.
@ceceprincess4758
3 жыл бұрын
Definitely
@pierrerochon7271
8 ай бұрын
MAGAS will take care of that- NOT!- Vote Blue- debate???
@pierrerochon7271
8 ай бұрын
MOMENTS AGO- I Posted a response to this love of B-HAM- KZread WIPED IT OUT- See if they do it again- I said 16th Avenue Baptist Church- BOMBING- 4 little Girls- Souls- Gone to God- Was not even aggressively prosecuted - Tears in Heaven for those children- Has anything changed- VOTER SUPPRESSION exists in Bama- VOTE BLUE!
@knivesgunfights526
8 ай бұрын
Where are you talking about? The West Side? That's thanks to their local elected officials. Not a part of Birmingham. If you live here, you need to get out more.
Nice video!!! My husband even got filmed .It was funny to look up and see him. Tfs
My Hometown ❤️ magic city I love my city
Birmingham is my hometown, so to speak..... I've moved away, and I can't stay away. I love this place. If you take a right at the light on Messer Airport highway, and go about 5 miles, that's Tarrant City. I was born and raised there.
@ceceprincess4758
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I was too
I'm in mobile !!! I went to Birmingham and Montgomery... I visited the states capitol , governors mansion & Rosa Parks Museum .it was a great time!!
Scoop me up next time you ride out! I love our city!!! #birmingham
@legarianvance6937
2 жыл бұрын
I would scoop u up for dinner and a movie if u ain't busy
Thanks for the ride!! I use to travel some of these very roads everyday. You passed by my job. I miss it, cause I’m working from home now. Well, I don’t really miss the building, but I do miss some of the people🤣. Only good thing about COVID is, I’m working from home permanently for now😘
Great video Mike glad that you showed us what Birmingham looks like
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
No problem!
@pierrerochon7271
8 ай бұрын
Shows us what -B-Ham is- STILL - Meet The New South- Same as the Old South- Never Forget- 16th Avenue Baptist Church!! KZread SILENCES ME!- BUT- TRUTH LIVES!!
@pierrerochon7271
8 ай бұрын
sEE THAT LINE- MORE OF MY COMMENTS WERE DELETED
@pierrerochon7271
8 ай бұрын
I tried to discuss the 16th street bombing- intelligently- and they disabled me
The view heading north on 19th Street from 12th Avenue South is pretty nice, you headed in the other direction. Still nice I haven’t been downtown for any length of time since I retired five years ago. Noticed many new and renovated buildings.
Nice downtown
Nice video of the Magic City👍🏾
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you 👍
I have Been in Birmingham 66 yrs. it's SICKENING to see what Birmingham has become. GOD BLESS US ALL !!!!!
Ride those streets all my life- now if they can just stop the killing we will be ok/ ps- love the old tunnel being onhrte
yes yes keep going my friend. Awesome
@streetremember6194
3 жыл бұрын
One question which camera is
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
iPhone 11 Pro
Yeah, seriously you're really creative when you make videos about driving from Alabama.
This is one of God's best gifts ever. Thanks for this video. It is up close and personal from whence my family came from.We are Ohioans now. But I am greatful to see the culture from and neighborhoods from whence my parents came from right on my phone.Thanks again
@MileageMikeTravels
2 жыл бұрын
You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed it.
Great video Alabama Mike keep it up man your videos are amazing and relaxing hey are you gonna do I-459
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
Hopefully so.
that video was fantastic.
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@danasiegbunam6358
3 жыл бұрын
@@MileageMikeTravels np
The Magic City 4ever!!!!!❤
I grew up on 41 St N in Avondale still got family out there and know that whole area like the back of my hand lol
Let's not forget to mention, Birmingham has had some scary stuff happen. Including the April 27th, 2011 Super Tornado Outbreak that happens every 40 years or so that effected many people when a EF4+ Tornado roared through, and impacted Fultondale, and Gardendale. The April 28th, 2014 Outbreak that affected Bessemer. And the now recent January 25th, 2021 EF3 that hit Fultondale again.
@Romenet310
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, they indeed had weather.
@ejdavis9297
3 жыл бұрын
Because it's so much evil and hate in everyone
@socreeative9011
Жыл бұрын
Idk what Bessemer is but google says to stay far away from that place 😭😭
Can they put those lights on I-65 through the junction, would be nice!!!
Did you shoot over to Bessemer Alabama nice place too
A very nice video. It said 4K ...is that 400 miles around the city you traveled?
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
4K video resolution
I remember my dad referring to Birmingham as the Vulcan City years and years ago. Was it ever known as that officially?
I love my city. Praying the killing stop soon🙏🏾
Nothing like Bama
Is this Birmingham rush hour traffic or Birmingham covid lockdown traffic?
Looks different on film.
@indigenoussquad
3 жыл бұрын
Looks exactly the same to me lol every area he drove I know. Born and raised
Would have bern a nice view if airport to downtown was on new interstate instead of industrial area. Great place to live. Great restaurant city. Several Beard Foundation nominees and winners.
Nice video
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks
I have been to birmingham
A lot car dealerships around downtown Birmingham.. I guess it’s better than just big ugly empty parking lots though
When you don’t want to see someone murdered in your city..😳
@walterhenderson2155
3 жыл бұрын
Birmingham is okay. Stay outta folks business.
@Romenet310
3 жыл бұрын
@@walterhenderson2155 I didn’t say Birmingham wasn’t ok. But some of those areas have a lot of crime. I’m sorry that is the case, but it is.
@Romenet310
3 жыл бұрын
@@walterhenderson2155 and Birmingham has one of the highest murder rates in the country. So… yeah.
@kimberlyhicks3644
3 жыл бұрын
@@Romenet310 Yep.
@ejdavis9297
3 жыл бұрын
Amen ‼️ brother ain't nothing but evil and hate in the city ‼️
Not a place to be without a car eh?
@mtr801
Ай бұрын
That's basically all of North America.
Dangerous asss city
@memyself4431
2 жыл бұрын
I lived there in 2010-2012 it is dangerous if you go into the danger bad crowds night bars and hanging out past dark In The streets .. basically I just worked and went to school there. I think it is getting worse than better though. Mountain brook is a nice area!
DEPRESSION