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Picture of the Day – 1-40 Bridge

by Joe Spake on January 28, 2010

Memphis I-40 Bridge, originally uploaded by joespake.
Memphis I-40 Bridge – Shot from the roof of the Goodwyn building (19 stories) – Corner of Madison and Second, Downtown Memphis.
Some other nice roof views in my flickr stream.
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Rings on Memphis Cobblestones

by Joe Spake on December 11, 2009

Rings on Memphis Cobblestones, originally uploaded by joespake.
Mooring rings, well over 100 years old. on the Memphis cobblestone wharf. From the glory days of Memphis River shipping – cotton bails filling the river banks, and paddle wheel steamboats loading and unloading cargo.
Now the cobblestones are mostly neglected, except as private parking for the excursion [...]

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Peabody Hotel Lobby – Holiday Season

by Joe Spake on December 6, 2009

Peabody Hotel Lobby – Holiday Season, originally uploaded by joespake.
Always nice to make a trip to the world famous Peabody Hotel Lobby in downtown Memphis, during the Holiday season. Literature tells us the Delta starts here.
Look closely and you will see the ducks are sleeping.

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Goyer-Lee House 690 Adams

by Joe Spake on November 24, 2009

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Goyer-Lee House 690 Adams (6), originally uploaded by joespake.
Porch rail detail from this abandoned Memphis Victorian Village home

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Clayborn Temple

by Joe Spake on November 4, 2009

Inactive and boarded for years, the Historic Clayborn Temple (originally Second Presbyterian Church) is still magnificent at 48o Hernando, at Linden. It was here that Dr. Martin Luther King gave his “I Have Been the the Mountaintop” sermon.
The building seems to be threatened by development to the south; FedEx Forum is just across Linden to [...]

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Buildings worth saving? (part 6 – the final installment)

by Joe Spake on November 2, 2009

First a point some points of clarification: This blog was spawned as a photo blog, and, henceforth, will be, with a minimum of commentary. My verbiage in this series was based on a report on Channel 3 whose source, The Center City Commission, describes the buildings as “the Center City Commission’s list of ten downtown [...]

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Buildings worth saving? (Part 5)

by Joe Spake on November 1, 2009

What to do with the Tennesssee Brewery? They shut down production of Goldcrest 51 Beer a long time ago. Built in 1890 this fortress is on Tennessee St. at Butler and is included in the CCC’s list of Top 10 Downtown buildings worth saving. If I were going to produce a horror film in Memphis, [...]

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Buildings worth Saving? (Part 3)

by Joe Spake on October 26, 2009

The Kress Building, at 9 N Main, is described in Memphis-An Architectural Guide, by Eugene J Johnson and Robert D. Russell, Jr. as a “wild replay of Florentine Renaissance motifs in terra cotta “. Built in 1927, the building’s bright colors have cannot be missed as you exet Court Square onto Mainand look southwest.
I remember [...]

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Buildings worth saving? (part 2)

by Joe Spake on October 22, 2009

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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Buildings worth saving?

by Joe Spake on October 21, 2009

Last week, the Center City Commission released its top 10 list of Downtown Memphis buildings – unused, vacant and ripe for redevelopment. I have, in the past or in the last week, photographed these buildings, and there are some I would definitely leave off my top 10 list.
Here’s the list from the CCC:

Sterick Building, 8 [...]

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