| Summary: | Color print of a hotel building in Birmingham, AL. Large multistory stone building on corner lot. Rooftop mooring mast intended for use by dirigibles. Automobiles on street and pedestrians on sidewalk. Postmarked September 10, 1945. Divided back postcard.Printed on front: 'Hotel Thomas Jefferson Cor. 2nd Ave. and 17th St., Birmingham, Ala. 27' Printed on back: ' Birmingham's newest twenty story fireproof hotel. One of the city's outstanding structures. From the roof gardens may be seen a wonderful panorama of the city,viewing the skyscraper district to the east and the steel mill industries at Bessemer and Ensley to the west. Cost approximately two million dollars. Faulker Novelty Co., Publishers, Birmingham, Ala., Tichnor Quality Views, Reg, U. S. Pat Off. Made Only By Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass.'Written on back: 'Dear Genie, don't you think this is a high Building. We are going up on the roof this eve after the Sub goes down and look over the town. By now be a good Boy. Love Mama. Master Genie Eicher Stillhorn Rd R9 Ft Wayne 8 Ind.'
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