Some Little Towns Are Trapped in Their Own Doom Loop
Some Little Towns Are Trapped in Their Own Doom Loop Beege Welborn 11:20 AM | July 23, 2026 Lee Anne Wofford/Alabama Historical Commission via AP Prichard, Alabama, was, from what I've been told, once a comfortable, working-class little suburb just outside of Mobile proper. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); But the city's fortunes began to decline as the population slipped when a housing boom began developing the suburbs, and people left for the new homes. Just a few years ago, the city water authority was in dire, DIRE straits and we were all riveted by the drama unfolding.
- ▪Some Little Towns Are Trapped in Their Own Doom Loop Beege Welborn 11:20 AM | July 23, 2026 Lee Anne Wofford/Alabama Historical Commission via AP Prichard, Alabama, was, from what I've been told, once a comfortable, working-class little sub
- ▪Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); But the city's fortunes began to decline as the population slipped when a housing boom
- ▪Just a few years ago, the city water authority was in dire, DIRE straits and we were all riveted by the drama unfolding.
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Some Little Towns Are Trapped in Their Own Doom Loop Beege Welborn 11:20 AM | July 23, 2026 Lee Anne Wofford/Alabama Historical Commission via AP Prichard, Alabama, was, from what I've been told, once a comfortable, working-class little suburb just outside of Mobile proper. Many members of downtown Mobile families still have fond memories of heading out of the sweltering city to visit their grandparents in what had once been a factory town for the shipbuilding, paper, and defense industries that had quite literally exploded along the riverfront during the Second World War and post-war boom.
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