Jun 6, 2006
Underneath the fallen roofs, scattered lumber and torn siding, a family portrait peaked out from behind a wedding photo - both splintered with broken glass from torn-apart frames. With so much clean up to do after the storm, these photographs quickly became labeled as un-repairable debris.
Hurricane Katrina hadn’t just changed the present and future lives of those living in southern Mississippi; she also drowned their past, leaving the memories faded and molded.
The Picture Project was created in order to help the residents of Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, retrieve photographs lost during Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of images have been collected and scanned in hopes of the owners finding them. For the first time so many memories that would be once lost or forgotten now have the chance to go back to southern Mississippi, to be reframed, put into new scrapbooks and for new generations to see.
Kodak, the Biloxi Sun Herald, United Van lines, and many other sponsors have helped to make this possible. If you or someone you know has lost photographs due to damage in the storm, please look through our albums to see if your memories can come back home.
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Jun 5, 2006
Memphis Business Journal - 2:45 PM CDT Monday
After 2005’s devastating hurricanes decimated the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Cellular South is strengthening its network in the region with $8 million in new equipment and upgrades in anticipation of the 2006 hurricane season, which started last week.
Cellular South is installing $2.5 million in microwave technology that would bypass damaged or destroyed landline systems if a hurricane hit the area again. This installation will ensure wireless calls will reach their destination. The technology was first used after Hurricane Katrina to allow callers in the region to make 1 million calls after that hurricane. [More...]
Jun 5, 2006
[Vic's note: those of us who didn't suffer the immediate and long-lasting destruction tend to forget all the little things that are still missing from Katrina victim's lives.]
Roll ‘em: Moviegoers excited by theater’s reopening
Monday, June 05, 2006
By JOHN SURRATT
The Mississippi Press
GAUTIER — Steve Richards peered through the spaces in the gate blocking the entrance to the soon-to-open Ritz Theater in the Singing River Mall.
“I’m glad to see it opening back up,” Richards, who works at Sears, said. ” Now I won’t have to go to D’Iberville to watch a movie.”
Closed since Hurricane Katrina, the former Village Theater in the mall was bought by its former manager, Carolyn Gaffney, and her daughter, Kristy. It is expected to reopen Friday at 1 p.m.
The theater’s new name brings back a bit of Pascagoula’s history, when the former Ritz Theater at the intersection of Pascagoula Street and Watts Avenue showed films to area residents. The building that held the theater is now a law office.
News of the theater’s reopening was greeted with joy by a number of people who were at the mall Sunday afternoon. [More...]
Jun 5, 2006
By KURT MOORE
The Marion Star
Editor’s note: The subjects in this weekly series are chosen as we go about the business of reporting local events. Their stories have everything to do with how we live our lives.MARION - Emilee Lamb-Hart and other students of Krista Gerhart’s fourth- and fifth-grade class had read and heard about the devastation that Hurricane Katrina left behind. A trip to the affected region offered Emilee, 10, the kind of first-hand look that one can’t get from just reading books.
While she couldn’t take her classmates with her, she found a way to include them in the experience.
Emilee traveled with her mom, Pam Lamb-Hart, and 24 other members of Mount Gilead’s Trinity United Methodist Church in April on a mission trip to hurricane-struck D’Iberville, Miss. [More ...]
Jun 5, 2006
The South Mississippi Sun Herald
1920s saw tourism boom; 2006 sees Tivoli’s doom
June 04, 2006
Photographed in May 1927, a bevy of beauties shows off the latest swimwear fashions on the lawn of the Tivoli,
Biloxi’s newest resort hotel. The Tivoli was one of four hotels that opened on the
Mississippi Coast within 60 days in the winter of 1926-27.The new hotels, the Pine Hills north of
Pass Christian, Biloxi’s Edgewater Gulf and Tivoli, and the Markham Hotel in
Gulfport, quickly filled with the overflow from the popular and older Buena Vista, Great Southern, Riviera, White House, Miramar and Hotel Biloxi.Weeks before the Tivoli’s grand opening on Feb. 19, 1927, the hotel was already booked. Many visitors arrived in time for Mardi Gras, which fell on Feb. 16 that year. With Easter late, the hotel’s winter and summer seasons merged.
That was 79 years ago. The steady thud of the wrecking ball, heard in East Biloxi in recent weeks, was the death knell for the heavily Katrina-damaged Tivoli, which had stood derelict for a number of years. Now only the Markham building remains as the last reminder of those grand hotels built during the halcyon days of the 1920s.
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