WENN-AM Studio Location

Can you tell me the exact location of this WENN-AM studio and when it was in service?

I did some digging but came up empty handed. This looks like it dates from before A. G. Gaston took over and the studios moved to his building on 5th Avenue.

The photo must have been taken in 1959 or after since WENN was on AM 1450 (the current WZGX) up until that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WZGX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WENN_(AM)

IIRC, the old WENN studio was also located on 5th Avenue, but it was in either the 1400 block (between 14th and 15th Streets) or the 1500 block...roughly in the same area where Jim Burke Automotive has expanded. And I think it was on the same side of the street that the A.G. Gaston Hotel was located.

Charles35080 said:

IIRC, the old WENN studio was also located on 5th Avenue, but it was in either the 1400 block (between 14th and 15th Streets) or the 1500 block...roughly in the same area where Jim Burke Automotive has expanded. And I think it was on the same side of the street that the A.G. Gaston Hotel was located.

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Ah, that jives with some of the info I came across. There's an except of an interview with Joe Lackey on the Birmingham Black Radio Museum website (who knew we had such a thing?) discussing the bombing of the Gaston Motel on 5th Avenue. He referred to the studio as "the fish bowl" with the big windows in front, which jives with the picture in the OP. It was close enough to the motel that the windows got blown out when the bomb went off. So it couldn't have been far away.

Now that I think about it---and I'm relying strictly on my memory from 40-45 years ago---the studio may actually have been next door to the hotel. When I have some time I'll research it.