Mobile, AL a.k.a. The Port City, The Azalea City, The Home of Mardi Gras
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Mobilians used to throw boxes of Cracker Jack from their Mardi Gras floats but switched to MoonPies in the early 1970s because they're safer, with no sharp edges
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Remember the dude who claimed there was a Leprechaun in a tree? Well that happened in Mobile...a.k.a. "The Crichton Leprechaun."
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The great Paul "Bear" Bryant coached his first game as Alabama's head coach in 1958 at Mobile's Ladd Stadium, as it was called then. The Crimson Tide lost to L.S.U. 13-3 and the bleachers collapsed