“We are all very much addicted to chocolate,” Nancy Curl exclaimed, as she motioned toward the beautifully wrapped gourmet candies on the table next to her. As the owner of Decatur’s Morgan Price Candy Company, Nancy is a self-proclaimed chocoholic….
David Gray’s passion for the automotive business began as a youngster working odd jobs and helping clean and prepare cars for sale at his grandfather’s used car dealership. During his high school years, he swept floors at a Wetumpka automotive…
If there’s one surefire way to gauge a restaurant’s popularity in Alabama, it’s the number of cars in the parking lot during the Sunday lunch rush. The standard holds true at 306 Barbecue in Athens. “Some Sundays, we have over…
The summer shopping season is in full swing at Painted Pink in Montgomery. “When the weather heats up, so does everyone’s event calendars,” said Pat McDonald, who owns the women’s boutique. This year, Painted Pink celebrates 16 years in business…
Even though his name is on the building, Doug Doggett proudly motions to his daughters, Deanna and Kim, when you ask him about his jewelry store. “They’re the ones you need to talk to,” he said. “Kimberly has been working here since the…
Every February, the coolers at Capitol’s Rosemont Gardens in Montgomery are packed full of beautiful, fresh blooms, including nearly 3,000 red roses. “Valentine’s Day is definitely a rose holiday,” says Manager Jerry Thrash. “We always run out of red roses.”…
Jacob Shevin doesn’t put much stock in generational differences. He says his youth hasn’t impeded him in his career at Standard Furniture Co. His biggest challenge when he started working at the family owned business after college was “overcoming being the boss’s son,” he said….
“In times of crisis or in times when it counts, the hardware store is there, whether it is a snowpocalypse or some type of fund-raising event for a local cause,” said Dan Moran, owner of Rocky Ridge Hardware, a Vestavia…
In 1917, Andrew Jackson McCurry, a dairy farmer known as “A.J.” or “Mr. Mc,” and his good friend C.V. Hoover opened a furniture store at 2221 Second Avenue North in Birmingham. A.J. wasn’t content to wait for the customers to…
At Western Market, the people running the place grew up in the grocery business. Ken Hubbard was in high school in 1960 when he started bagging groceries for founder Inos Heard at the original store at Five Points West in…