Posted April 21, 201510 yr Spring break! Teachers are off for a week, so my wife suggested we go to Memphis for a couple of days (and then Paducah -- will post pics soon). Exchange Building, 1910, now apartments Madison Hotel (where we stayed), built in 1906 as the Tennessee Trust Bank US Customs House/Federal Building Main Street from Madison Main again. Note the trolley tracks. Madison Street is one of three lines in the heritage trolley system -- none of which were running, due to upgrades required after fires on two lines last year. Columbian Mutual Tower, 1924 Condo conversion Sidestreet Exchange again Madison Arcade -- with skylights (not a classic glass-roofed arcade Condos, Exchange, and Madison Hotel in background Sterick Building: Tennessee's tallest 'til 1957 -- 29 floors Former Press-Scimitar newspaper offices, soon to be boutique hotel YMCA with modern entrance Main part Detail Masonic Temple Note how Madison Line trolley tracks split to go on outer edge of bridge New housing, with lights from nearby Auto Zone field More housing near ballpark. Valet parking guy at the hotel compared it to Wrigley Field. I don't think so. A gate was open at the back, so I wandered in to get this The carriage awaits, in front of the Peabody Hotel Rendezvous, in the alley across from the Peabody, has great dry-rub ribs The Peabody, where the ducks on the roof are led to the fountain in the lobby every morning at 11 Main Street again Looking north from the rooftop bar at Madison Hotel Looking east Neighboring rooftop garden -- 1894 Continental National Bank, now called the Porter Building Northeast view, over Court Square Big Muddy, looking north Big Muddy, looking south Sterick, et al, to the east Southeast South Next three: zooming in on the Columbian Bldg Crump Building (I think) 1901 Sunset over Arkansas Kayak in the inlet at Mud Island Beale Street at dusk Inside Blues Cafe Outside -- Beale is more touristy than authentic But Dyer's is the most authentic place. Great burgers, dropped in grease in a huge, deep cast-iron skillet. The story is: The grease is strained every morning and is the original grease, going back decades. BB King went in the hospital a day or so before we got to Memphis Rooftop bar late I-40 bridge over the Mississippi, with lighted ornamentation on the hotel Mud Island and Akransas Looking south Refineries in the distance Looking down on Court Square Court Square The Tennessee Club Columbian Bldg Former offices of the Commerical Appeal, the remaining daily paper Exchange Bldg again The square again Porter Bldg. Kress (1927) Skyline from I-40 on the way back from a quick stop in Arkansas so i could set foot in my 43rd state (Mississippi made 44 in the afternoon) Bass Pro White Elephant ... err, Pyramid Elvis Sun Studio And Stax Cooper-Young is supposed to be a hip 'hood. It's OK -- coffee shops, bookstore, vinyl, a brewpub down the road. I kinda liked the residential area Nice alley Seems to be a Memphis-vernacular bungalow. I saw lots of variations of this Neighborhood school -- I don't know much about the district I liked this one Back on Beale Street Historic dry-goods store -- now mostly souvenirs Weird. Old facades, beer garden behind them. No roof. Outdoor blues at King's Palace Cafe Charles Vergo's Rendezvous for ribs Old train station, I think National Civil Rights Museum Front of the rooming house from which James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Streetscape there Rooming house, rear Small second-story window, center, where the shot was fired from; museum below focuses on the shooting, sentencing, controversy Lorraine Hotel -- adjacent to and apparently predating the Lorraine Motel
April 21, 201510 yr Mmmm Rendezvous! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 21, 201510 yr Nice photos! I went to Memphis a couple of times when I lived in Missouri. They were just starting to renovate the pyramid then.
April 22, 201510 yr Awesome set. I have not been to Memphis since 2009 and I did not explore too much beyond downtown--I need to get back sometime.
April 25, 201510 yr Mmmm Rendezvous! Central BBQ & Cozy Corner are MUCH better! This b*tch... "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 26, 201510 yr "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 27, 201510 yr ah walkin in memphis -- great thread here -- love the roof views and that may be the nicest kress facade of all. speaking of facades, the unfortunate/fortunate facade save on beale st is the gallina exchange bldg and the remaining front of it has been propped up like that for over 30yrs now. more: http://www.commercialappeal.com/business/iconic-i-beams
May 23, 201510 yr Nice set. I drove through Memphis in 2010 to go to Graceland and thought it was kind of depressing. Maybe I didn't get to the right neighborhoods. I did love Graceland, though.
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