Jack Moss Bridges

June 1929

Nov 1929

June 1930

Feb 1931

March 1931 

M.W. Espy's first home was directly across the road from Jack Bridges' home.  Their homes were just a bit down from Walden Motor Co., the bank, and the Espy Feed & Seed Store.  AD Walden lived right in there, too.  That's called Main St. now.

April 1931

This is one of the weekly newspaper columns Bridges wrote.  He had one prior to THE SCRAPBOOK.

July 1931

Sept 1934

May 1935

circa 1930s

Oct 1938

Oct 1938

May 1940

Sept 1952

Nov 1952

May 1953

Jan 1954

Feb 1957

August 1958

The Wiregrass Farmer

January 19, 1961

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bridges attend the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.

April 1961

1962

April 12, 1962

Jack Bridges shakes hands with President John F. Kennedy.

1963

Wayne Chancey shakes Mr. Bridges' hand.

(left to right)  Mark Espy, Moran Baxter, Jack Bridges, Wayne Chancey, Julian Brannon

in The Headland National Bank Boardroom

1971

1972

1976

1977

Headland National Bank Board (circa late 70s)

Jack M. Bridges, third from left

1981

1986

Below is an email I sent to Don McClendon on 12-10-20.  A couple of months before, he had walked me down to his parents' first Headland home, on Depot St..  He said he never remembered it being Depot St., but he was just a kid then and they didn’t stay there long.  As we walked down the sidewalk towards his old home, I pointed out the Southeast Alabama Gas building, which is on the exact spot where Major W. Espy lived after he first married.  Young Watty Espy lived there for a bit.  Anyway, at some point, it was torn down and the gas building was constructed there.

I figured it out.  A while back I saw a news story about Jack Bridges' home and a home that belonged to AD Walden, and they both were on Depot St.  The Jack Bridges' home was right across from the SE Alabama Gas building.  Today that stretch is what we know as Main St.  So the home where you lived and the one where that baseball player Kennedy drove up on his motorcycle were indeed on Depot St. at that time.  

I found Headland Insurance Agency's website.  The history they show doesn't match what I've discovered.  We'll try to figure it out.