The statue of Vulcan stands atop Red Mountain and has been linked to the City of Birmingham for over a hundred years. People from the other side of the mountain, however, saw the statue’s bare rear end, leading to the standing joke that Vulcan was mooning Homewood. Created for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, [...]
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