Gardendale Resident Amasses 40,000 Postcards of Birmingham, Jeffco

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.For the Birmingham TimesJD 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 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.”
That card—depicting a rainy day in do