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AutoZone Park has a seating capacity of 10,000, [4] and has been aptly described as "one-third" of a major league baseball park. For its construction 17,586 cubic yards (13,445 m 3 ) of concrete were used, or enough to cover 11 acres (4.5 ha).
The Audubon Golf Course can be seen on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 4160 Park Avenue in Memphis, Tenn. The park is undergoing renovations.
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The name of the facility was also changed to Memphis Motorsports Park and the tri-oval opened on June 5, 1998. The following month, Memphis Motorsports Park was acquired by Dover Motorsports in connection with its purchase of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach. Memphis Motorsports Park closed October 30, 2009, due to lack of finances.
The Speedway Terrace Historic District, in Memphis, Tennessee, is a residential historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It included 492 structures, 330 of which are principal structures that contribute to the significance of the 110-acre (45 ha) district and were built during an approximate 40-year period beginning around 1905.
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One of its better-known non-baseball events was a concert by Memphis' adoptive son Elvis Presley on July 4, 1956. Coincidentally, 21 years later, Elvis would be pronounced dead at the Baptist Hospital across Madison Street to the south. The largest crowd attendance for wrestling in Memphis was set on August 17, 1959, at Russwood Park.
The first station in the district was on Calhoun Street, built c. 1855 by the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad.It was replaced by a newer Calhoun Street Station that was demolished when Memphis Central Station (originally Grand Central Station) was built on the same site in 1912–1914 by the Illinois Central Railroad and a subsidiary, the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad that ran south ...