Mobile Essential Info
Overview
Mobile is a city in the state of Alabama in the South of the United States of America with almost a half million people in the metro area.
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Basics
Best Time To Go
Oct-May
Current Time
Current Weather
78 °F
Mostly Cloudy
Fun Facts
- Mobile's police horses of the mounted patrol unit go to Mardi Gras school to learn how to handle sudden noises and large crowds, and they get diplomas upon graduation.
- The night time scenes in the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" were shot inside a giant hangar in Mobile.
- The oldest continually operating business in Mobile is a newspaper, The Mobile Press-Register, which was founded in 1813.
- Mobile was home to the first Mardi Gras celebrations in the New World in the very early 1700s, long before New Orleans.
- Mobile is home to the world's largest public tennis facility, the Mobile Tennis Center, which contains over 50 courts.
Popular Foods
- Wiener Schnitzel
- Oysters