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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.
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 ...
4 East Memphis. 5 North Memphis. 6 Northeast. 7 South Memphis. ... Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... University Street Neighborhood; Northeast
The museum offers a comprehensive Memphis music experience beginning with the rural field hollers and porch music of the sharecroppers in the 30s highlighting the urban influences of Beale Street in the 1940s, radio, Sun Records and Sam Phillips in the 1950s, the heyday of Stax, Hi Records and soul music in the 1960s and 1970s, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the music's influence ...
The primary zip codes in this area are 38111, 38117, and 38157, including 38120 and 38119. [1] In 1950, the eastern boundary of Memphis was essentially the western boundary of what is today East Memphis. [2] By the mid-1960s, most of East Memphis inside the I-240 loop had been annexed by the city of Memphis. [3]
In 2011, the Withers Collection Museum and Gallery was established at 333 Beale St., the site of his last working studio. And on Tuesday, his legacy received a major boost, when the location was ...
The success of Beale Street earned John Elkington many honors, including being named by Memphis Magazine in 2011 as one of "The Memphis 35" – people whose influence over the past 35 years "was critical to the growth and evolution of our city." [5] Three years later, the Memphis Flyer tapped him as one of "25 Who Shaped Memphis: 1989-2014."
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