Gardendale Resident Amasses 40,000 Postcards Of Birmingham, JeffCo

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
The Birmingham Times

JD Weeks has a collection of more than 40,000 postcards that portray Birmingham and Jefferson County, but the first came by accident, he said.

“I can’t remember exactly when it was, but I bought an old book at a bookstore somewhere in downtown Birmingham,” the Gardendale resident recalled. “I bought a book for a dollar, and it had a postcard. I found that, and it got me started.”

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