The OLD Cramton Bowl

     There has been a lot of activity at The Cramton Bowl in Montgomery these days because a $10-Million renovation is almost complete.

     Even with those renovations only partly done, it served as the venue for the All-Star High School football game Thursday night.

    Anyway, I came across a fascinating 1920's photo of the Bowl, which I discovered was built on an old landfill as a baseball stadium, and was the first field in Alabama to host nighttime High School Baseball games.

     It's especially interesting to see all of the farmland around the stadium. All of that land is developed now, much of it with state office buildings. And the Bowl itself is named for the businessman who donated the (landfill) land for the facility, and eventually took on the project of seeing it built too.