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Beale Street in 1974 Beale Street in 2014 Rex Billiard Hall for Colored, Beale Street, 1939.Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.. Beale Street was created in 1841 by entrepreneur and developer Robertson Topp (1807–1876), who soon named it later in the decade for Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a military hero from the Mexican–American War.
Ruby Wilson (February 29, 1948 – August 12, 2016) was an American blues and gospel singer. She was known as "The Queen of Beale Street" as she sang in clubs on Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, for over 40 years.
Memphis, Texas, the county seat of Hall County, is at the junction of U.S. Highway 287, State Highway 256, and Farm to Market Road 1547, in the northeastern part of the county. It started in 1889, when J. C. Montgomery purchased land for a townsite north of Salisbury on the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway.
ELVIS WEEK: Thousands of fans honor the King and Lisa Marie Presley at Candlelight Vigil Born Jan. 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis relocated to Memphis with his parents when he was 13.
Hall County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population is 2,825. [1] Its county seat is Memphis. [2] The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1890. [3] It is named for Warren D. C. Hall, a secretary of war for the Republic of Texas. [4]
Set for release Aug. 9, "Memphis" includes 111 tracks spanning Presley’s recordings in the city, with 88 of those tracks newly remixed by local Grammy-winning engineer/producer Matt Ross-Spang ...
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Throughout its length, I-240 is designated as the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway, the W.B. Fowler Sr. Expressway, and the Avron B. Fogelman Expressway. The first sections of I-240 were opened in 1962, and the present-day route was completed in 1971. I-240 was first envisioned in the 1950s as a complete circular beltway around Memphis.