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A notable Downtown Memphis restaurant has quietly exited the scene.. Penny’s Nitty Gritty in the Westin Memphis Beale Street Hotel is changing concepts. The hotel is already transitioning into ...
Hard Rock Café: 26 years on Beale Street A broken cymbal is seen at the Hard Rock Cafe in Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. The restaurant is closing after 26 years.
Memphis businessman and Gibson Companies CEO J.W. Gibson speaks an event to celebrate the purchase of the building at 126 Beale St. by Memphis Rock ’n’ Soul Inc. and to announce plans for it ...
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.
The Memphis management tried the same diversification, with several locations in suburban shopping centers eventually replacing the downtown restaurants. As the two companies struggled against the competition, the remaining cafeterias were converted into all-you-can-eat buffets; this was done with at least three Memphis locations and the one ...
Hilton Memphis: 329/100 24 1975 Tallest hotel in Memphis. 8 Memphis Pyramid: 321/98 5 1991 7th-tallest pyramid and largest Bass Pro Shops in the world. Home to retail, restaurants, an observation deck, a hotel, a bowling alley, and the largest free-standing elevator in America. 9 The Renaissance Apartments: 296/90 25 1968
More than 50 Memphis restaurants will participate in the 2024 Downtown Dining Week, serving up a variety of special deals. Downtown Dining Week 2024: The complete list of Memphis restaurants that ...
Built in 1905, the 14-story Tennessee Trust Building was among downtown Memphis' first "skyscrapers." The building's architects, the firm of Charles 0. Pfeil (1871–1952) and George M. Shaw (1870–1919) were noted at the time for designing buildings with ornate, classical styling and massing.