So, for those of you watching “Rosa,” I want to show you the actual Montgomery, Alabama, that Rosa Parks would have seen. I’m a native of Montgomery. I grew up 4 miles from the bus stop where Rosa Parks was arrested.
This is an aerial shot of Montgomery in 1951. The city is unique in that it began originally as two smaller towns that merged and was named for Gen. Richard Montgomery.
The place where the two towns met is known as Court Square. There is a gorgeous fountain and clock there. If you go down Court Square toward Commerce Street, you’ll get to the Alabama River. If you go east down Dexter Avenue, you will reach the state capitol.
This is a postcard from the 1950s showing that view. It’s extremely iconic. See the bus on the left? That is the bus stop where Rosa Parks was arrested. You can see the stop for yourself on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/nC8rghVhVwQ2
As Yaz mentions, Rosa worked at the Montgomery Fair department store. Which actually looked like this.
This is the Empire Theatre that was mentioned toward the end of the episode. It was originally built in 1914 and renovated in the 1930s. It was also demolished when I was in high school and the Rosa Parks Memorial Library is now there.
A good bit of the places were made up in the episode, but telephone directory and bus tables are legit. These are the neighborhoods in the directory (and for funsies, I marked where I grew up).
I feel like the city of Montgomery is as much a character as all the historic people in the episode. Without that iconic view down Dexter Avenue from the bus stop, you don’t get to see Dexter Avenue Baptist Church where Martin Luther King, Jr. preached. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was actually planned in the basement of that church, just a short walk from the bus stop where Rosa was arrested.
It’s like trying to tell the story of the Selma-to-Montgomery march without the unique architecture of the Edmund Pettus bridge or the Stand in the Schoolhouse door without the University of Alabama.
And a LOT of the tiny details were right: the bus itself, the bus tables, where Rosa worked, the arrest itself, etc. Even the fact that it was stupid dark at 5:30 p.m. in December.
I know the episode was filmed in South Africa, and it looks nothing like central Alabama. So hopefully this gives you an idea of what the rest of the city actually looked like.
So, for those of you watching “Rosa,” I want to show you the actual Montgomery, Alabama, that Rosa Parks would have seen. I’m a native of Montgomery. I grew up 4 miles from the bus stop where Rosa Parks was arrested.
This is an aerial shot of Montgomery in 1951. The city is unique in that it began originally as two smaller towns that merged and was named for Gen. Richard Montgomery.
The place where the two towns met is known as Court Square. There is a gorgeous fountain and clock there. If you go down Court Square toward Commerce Street, you’ll get to the Alabama River. If you go east down Dexter Avenue, you will reach the state capitol.
This is a postcard from the 1950s showing that view. It’s extremely iconic. See the bus on the left? That is the bus stop where Rosa Parks was arrested. You can see the stop for yourself on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/nC8rghVhVwQ2
As Yaz mentions, Rosa worked at the Montgomery Fair department store. Which actually looked like this.
This is the Empire Theatre that was mentioned toward the end of the episode. It was originally built in 1914 and renovated in the 1930s. It was also demolished when I was in high school and the Rosa Parks Memorial Library is now there.
A good bit of the places were made up in the episode, but telephone directory and bus tables are legit. These are the neighborhoods in the directory (and for funsies, I marked where I grew up).
I feel like the city of Montgomery is as much a character as all the historic people in the episode. Without that iconic view down Dexter Avenue from the bus stop, you don’t get to see Dexter Avenue Baptist Church where Martin Luther King, Jr. preached. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was actually planned in the basement of that church, just a short walk from the bus stop where Rosa was arrested.
It’s like trying to tell the story of the Selma-to-Montgomery march without the unique architecture of the Edmund Pettus bridge or the Stand in the Schoolhouse door without the University of Alabama.
And a LOT of the tiny details were right: the bus itself, the bus tables, where Rosa worked, the arrest itself, etc. Even the fact that it was stupid dark at 5:30 p.m. in December.
I know the episode was filmed in South Africa, and it looks nothing like central Alabama. So hopefully this gives you an idea of what the rest of the city actually looked like.
So, for those of you watching “Rosa,” I want to show you the actual Montgomery, Alabama, that Rosa Parks would have seen. I’m a native of Montgomery. I grew up 4 miles from the bus stop where Rosa Parks was arrested.
This is an aerial shot of Montgomery in 1951. The city is unique in that it began originally as two smaller towns that merged and was named for Gen. Richard Montgomery.
The place where the two towns met is known as Court Square. There is a gorgeous fountain and clock there. If you go down Court Square toward Commerce Street, you’ll get to the Alabama River. If you go east down Dexter Avenue, you will reach the state capitol.
This is a postcard from the 1950s showing that view. It’s extremely iconic. See the bus on the left? That is the bus stop where Rosa Parks was arrested. You can see the stop for yourself on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/nC8rghVhVwQ2
As Yaz mentions, Rosa worked at the Montgomery Fair department store. Which actually looked like this.
This is the Empire Theatre that was mentioned toward the end of the episode. It was originally built in 1914 and renovated in the 1930s. It was also demolished when I was in high school and the Rosa Parks Memorial Library is now there.
A good bit of the places were made up in the episode, but telephone directory and bus tables are legit. These are the neighborhoods in the directory (and for funsies, I marked where I grew up).
I feel like the city of Montgomery is as much a character as all the historic people in the episode. Without that iconic view down Dexter Avenue from the bus stop, you don’t get to see Dexter Avenue Baptist Church where Martin Luther King, Jr. preached. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was actually planned in the basement of that church, just a short walk from the bus stop where Rosa was arrested.
It’s like trying to tell the story of the Selma-to-Montgomery march without the unique architecture of the Edmund Pettus bridge or the Stand in the Schoolhouse door without the University of Alabama.
And a LOT of the tiny details were right: the bus itself, the bus tables, where Rosa worked, the arrest itself, etc. Even the fact that it was stupid dark at 5:30 p.m. in December.
I know the episode was filmed in South Africa, and it looks nothing like central Alabama. So hopefully this gives you an idea of what the rest of the city actually looked like.
A sense of humor can make everything better. Sex isn’t like it is in the movies or in porn. There will be strange and weird and awkward sounds, there might be a silly interruption like the cat or a kid… you might knock heads or trip getting undressed. Sex is funny, foreplay is funny and sometimes you need to just laugh. It will keep things from getting awkward! If you take sex too seriously you aren’t truly enjoying it!
Not to mention a sense of humor can be really sexy no matter what your gender identity is!
this comic is literally my favorite thing on tumblr.
i’ve always said if you can’t laugh with the person you’re having sex with while you’re having sex with them you shouldn’t be having sex with them.
God.
My husband once walked up behind me while i was sitting in the living room just watching t.v…and he put his penis on my shoulder and said “hello..”
THIS WAS HIS SEDUCTION.
THIS WAS HIS IDEA OF HOW TO GET ME INTO BED.
it worked, but not before I laughed for days.
For that last comment.
I always had a ton of weird funky condoms at my place because I volunteered with Planned Parenthood and did a lot of sex education and sex positive work. I literally had no less than like thirty different types of condoms at a time. So when it came time to grabbing a condom it was a grab bag of WHO KNOWS what you’ll end up with.
Long story short, my boyfriend grabs one, puts it on, heat of the moment type thing, a some point we both look down and see it’s an ELECTRIC GREEN condom. Dead pan he looks me straight in the eye and in his best impression goes “HEY HO. KERMIT DEE FROG HERE.” And I COMPLETELY LOST IT.
On a completely different occasion I said “don’t stop” and he sang ALL of Don’t Stop Believing. All of it. All of it. Right then and there. Without stopping.
Can I add the story about how me and one of my partners had a very enthralling discussion about deserts while I was on top of him?
Or the time my partner’s friends blasted “Eye of the Tiger” through the door and we rocked it out to the beat while quoting the movie?
Story time:
I was with this girl during a trip out to Washington, we’d hung out a few times, and hit it off really well. So we got together one afternoon. Her dorm-mate came home, saw the “Do Not Disturb” sock on her bedroom door and called out “Thrusters to full!”
Not missing a beat the girl and I yelled back “We’re giving it all we’ve got, Captain!” and her roommate started fucking dying outside the door.
Probably should have proposed right on the spot, but whatever.
