tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397745023417725779.post2388241901632382876..comments2023-12-18T21:14:29.128-06:00Comments on Climbing the Branches of My Family Tree: SATURDAY'S STRUCTURES - Frascati Park, Mobile, AlabamaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397745023417725779.post-38257739833472938702021-04-23T09:54:42.981-05:002021-04-23T09:54:42.981-05:00Thank you for this article. My great uncle, R.C. ...Thank you for this article. My great uncle, R.C. Kennedy, was mentioned here as one of the owners. This added much to our family history!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07166691257673338649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397745023417725779.post-76701801968825876862021-01-14T01:02:52.879-06:002021-01-14T01:02:52.879-06:00Hi Can Vincent George contact me on swchuck at ...Hi Can Vincent George contact me on swchuck at gmail dot com. Re GM&O Frascati shops etc. and also archives there of. Looking for work carried out in late 1950s or early 1960s on the Ingalls 4-S diesel loco. Thnakssswcharliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033289470857044583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397745023417725779.post-11924876475545930692018-02-11T16:53:38.750-06:002018-02-11T16:53:38.750-06:00About the time this post was made (2014) I was dri...About the time this post was made (2014) I was driving around the old Frascati yard area and noticed a complex set of low rail trestles over the creek that comes through there. There were about 6 or 7 trestles very close together...all that remained of the rail yard. I think they probably ed to the turn-table. About 2 weeks later I returned with my camera (with heavy boots on due to the rough terrain) to capture this unique scene. Much to my dismay, it had all been bulldozed into a pile of rubble! Missed opportunity...Sedgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390052656517923859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397745023417725779.post-74776812588928221112017-05-27T18:40:46.177-05:002017-05-27T18:40:46.177-05:00My great uncle is the RC Kennedy who bought Frasca...My great uncle is the RC Kennedy who bought Frascati is 1888. It was fun to read your blog. Thanks. SueAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04905726578912220775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397745023417725779.post-54380408434577253272014-02-01T18:50:07.157-06:002014-02-01T18:50:07.157-06:00Recently on one of my frequent visits to Mobile (I...Recently on one of my frequent visits to Mobile (I was born and grew up there) I visited Frascati and observed with some anguish that there is nothing whatever left of it except the land. It has been laid waste and barren by the State Docks. What was once the Frascati Yard of the GM&O Railroad (itself defunct) is now a hostile field of rockachaws. In my lifetime, extending from the first half of the 20th Century to the present, Frascati was never an attractive place. Perhaps a vacant area of land could be seen as being better than one immersed in decay and urban industrial blight. You decide.G. D. Argironoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1397745023417725779.post-29753619833732921862013-12-12T10:07:10.713-06:002013-12-12T10:07:10.713-06:00I found your blog while researching the Martin Hor...I found your blog while researching the Martin Horst house for my website. I had not expected to find the connection to Frascati. I've known of Frascati my whole life as my great-grandfather, grandfather and uncles worked there. My daddy talks of delivering lunch to his grandfather and learning to swim in the KC Ditch on premises. I became friends with James Watson, the current superintendent, over the last few years and visited the home/office and railroad museum before the moved up river a few years ago.<br /><br />I have also attended many functions at the Horst House, aka Moon Gate because of its spectacular round wrought iron gate. I've claimed for many years that the Horst Carriage House is my favorite building in all of Mobile.<br /><br />I have a few pictures of Frascati on my website from when it was the original Country Club of Mobile. Check them out at www.OldMobileReprints.comVincent Georgehttp://www.oldmobilereprints.comnoreply@blogger.com