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In the 1970’s the new county jail at 201 Poplar had a higher population than Downtown Memphis. Jack Tucker was a major player in the re-birth of Downtown living, before the development of Mud Island and the South Bluff, Tucker was a force for for urban living and urban design. Yesterday, the alley that runs [...]
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The Marketplace of the Mid-South
I was looking up something about Memphis when I ran across a link to http://lostmemphis.com in a Wikipedia article. The link takes you to a page of http://mallofmemphis.org, a tribute to Memphis’s flagship shopping mall. The site is a captivating historical piece presenting a thorough story of the mall from its [...]
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Seeing the ice on the trees this morning reminds me of a morning in 1994, waking up to a series of muffled crackles and crunchs, not quite realizing at the time that the sounds were large tree limbs splitting and falling. I don’t remember that is was very cold that morning, 30-31 degrees being optimal [...]
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Here is another building from the CCC’s list – Top 10 Downtown buildings worth saving: the Nylon Net building at 7 Vance (Vance and Wagner). You have probably passed this hulking brick building hundreds of times on your way the the Spaghetti Warehouse. I can’t find any history on it It looks early 20th century, [...]
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Oh, have I mentioned the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival? Today, Sunday 9/6 is the last day, but what a day it will be: Rockabilly, folk, funk, soul, hip-hop, mariachi, dance, food demos, and much, much more, and it’s free. Come on Downtown and check it out.
Click here forPrintable 1-page schedule
I started a Flickr Group, [...]
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Wondering what to do with your Labor Day Weekend in Memphis? If you follow this blog or my other social media posts, you know where I’ll be. If you are going to be in Memphis over the weekend DO NOT MISS the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival Downtown, the annual multi-cultural, multi-art form [...]
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Wisdom, originally uploaded by joespake.
Statue outside the Court House at 140 Adams. Probably should be moved to City Hall.
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So what’s this Memphis Music and Heritage Festival thing?
It’s the Bo-Keys, Jason D. Williams, Bobby Rush, Amy LeVere, Giant Bear, Paul Taylor, Al Kapone, Eddie Bond, Joyce Cobb, Kate Campbell, Daddy Mack, Susan Marshall, and Gary Topper for starters.
It’s been one of Memphis’ best kept secrets in the past, but there is really no reason [...]
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Memphis Real Estate Buzz
Created by Philip Norton
