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6 unusual facts about Homewood


Gitte Haslebo

In 1960–61 Haslebo spent a year in the United States, graduating in 1961 from Homewood-Flossmoor High School in suburban Chicago.

Homewood, Illinois

In 1983, Richard Haas painted a mural on the backs of several buildings in the business district, matching their fronts to their backs.

PDQ Food Stores

PDQ Food Stores is a chain of convenience stores located in the areas of Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; plus one store near Homewood, California.

The Sleeping Place of the Stars

He was commissioned by the Homewood, Alabama Middle School Band to write the tune, with the inspiration coming from a poem of the same title written by Ethel Armes.

Washington Park Race Track

--Cut the following because it is awkward and without context; there is no explanation of why this is relevant: after oral betting was declared legal in Illinois, -->a second Washington Park Race Track opened up in south suburban Homewood.

WPXH-TV

Despite the stations' relatively strong program lineup, fellow independent station WTTO (channel 21) in Homewood had stronger ratings than channels 44 and 17.


Charles Owen Rice

During seven decades of priesthood, Rice was pastor of Pittsburgh congregations including St. Joseph's in Natrona, Pennsylvania, Immaculate Conception in Washington, Pennsylvania, Holy Rosary in Homewood, and St. Ann's in Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania.

Elton B. Stephens Expressway

The Elton B. Stephens Expressway, more commonly referred to locally as the Red Mountain Expressway, is a limited access freeway serving as a north-south connection between Homewood and Mountain Brook south of Red Mountain with I-20/59 just to the northeast of downtown Birmingham.

Hunter Street Baptist Church

This was due to several factors, including the growth of Birmingham suburbs such as Vestavia Hills, Homewood and Forestdale, as well as the change in the socio-economic makeup of the neighborhood surrounding Hunter Street.

Massachusetts Avenue Parking Shops

Among the first stores in the small complex were a Sanitary Food Store and an A & P Grocery, a pharmacy, Homewood Hardware, Knife & Fork Delicatessen, Pat-a-Cake Bake Shop, Homewood Beauty Shop, Palace Laundry and a Gulf Oil filling station.

Point Breeze, Pittsburgh

Both of John Edgar Wideman's memoirs, Brothers and Keepers and Hoop Roots, use North Point Breeze's Westinghouse Park as a setting, as well as in his fictional Homewood Trilogy.

R. G. Armstrong

Armstrong initially enrolled at Howard College, now Samford University in Homewood, Alabama, where he became interested in acting, and then transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Robert Kraichnan

In 2003, he returned to academia when he was appointed Homewood Professor in the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, but by this time he had already fallen ill.

Sent for You Yesterday

In 1992 the University of Pittsburgh Press published the three in one volume under the title The Homewood Books.


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