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>>>>>UPDATE<<<< Thanks to my Facebook friend Ruth Hendrix for providing this link. Check the web cams at the inspection to see how busy they are…. Thanks, Ruth. <<<<>>>>
Maybe I am just a grumpy old wimp, but 78 minutes seems like a lot of time out of my life to get the mandatory car inspection, [...]
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Check out the Mind Over Memphis, a video series that highlights the work of Memphis charities, non-profits and assorted artists with comedy. Think of it as Dirty Jobs meets Monty Python meets MIFA.
Here’s a playlist for the entire series:
OR you can check out Dr. Harold Toboggans Mind over Memphis YouTube Channel HERE.
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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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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, 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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Memphis Mayor A C Wharton – 1, originally uploaded by joespake.
Mayor Wharton, speaking at the Midtown Security Meeting, 12/3/2009. More photos in my flickr stream http://www.flickr.com/photos/joespake/
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Marchetti’s Weona , originally uploaded by joespake.
Neighborhood groceries ruled with I was young. My family got most groceries from Marchetti’s, which occupied this building at Lauderdale and Dempster in South Memphis. We knew the proprietors and their extended family. Most of the family lived upstairs. Neighborhood stores were franchised under the Weona brand. [...]
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