If your grandparents or great grandparents grew up in or around Mobile, there’s a very good chance they spent some time in this huge, cavernous building in the block across the street from Bienville Square.
There isn’t much left inside of the iconic original department store still affectionately known as Gayfer’s, just a striking diagonal structure that was once an escalator to the upper floors.
The flagship store that opened in 1879 closed shop in 1985 after customers migrated to the malls…