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  2. Beale Street - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Rum Boogie Café - Wikipedia

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    Rum Boogie Café is a night club on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. It is one of the main venues for the International Blues Challenge and is the favored performance location of singer James Govan. [1] [2] It was named "Blues Club of the Year" by the Blues Foundation in 2007. [3] [4]

  4. New Daisy Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The New Daisy Theatre is a music venue located on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee.It plays host to both local and national acts, as well the site of rental events. [1]The theater opened in 1936 and has featured artists such as John Lee Hooker, Gatemouth Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Al Green, Sam and Dave, Bob Dylan, Alex Chilton, the Cramps, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Phish, Kid Memphis, Son Lewis ...

  5. Memphis in May - Wikipedia

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    The Beale Street Music Festival is a three-day music festival that has both a mix of big-name stars and local musical acts. Held during the first weekend of May in the city's Tom Lee Park at the foot of Beale Street, it is considered to be the kick-off event of the entire Memphis in May International Festival celebration. It typically hosts ...

  6. A. Schwab's - Wikipedia

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    The first floor sells quirky merchandise and tourist memorabilia while what used to be the next-door shop has been converted into an ice-cream bar. [4] A. Schwab was the oldest store in the Mid-South, located in the oldest remaining building on Beale Street. After 136 years of ownership, the Schwab family sold the business at the end of 2011.

  7. Ruby Wilson - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Beale Street Blues - Wikipedia

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    "Beale Street Blues" is a song by American composer and lyricist W.C. Handy. ... "Beale Street Blues" "juxtaposes the 12-bar blues form with an 8-bar counter-theme". [1]

  9. If Beale Street Could Talk - Wikipedia

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    If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin.His fifth novel (and 13th book overall), it is a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. [1] [2] The title is a reference to the 1916 W.C. Handy blues song "Beale Street Blues", named after Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee.