by Joe Spake on October 20, 2010
RE-Post (sort of) – from 10/15/2010 I lost the original post asking for your help in filling in some Midtown Memphis Neighborhoods when I had to do a major server change. So, in the meantime I have updated it some. Click on the map for details. Your continued input on neighborhoods not already highlighted will [...]
by Joe Spake on January 31, 2010
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 [...]
by Joe Spake on January 30, 2010
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 [...]