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Elvis Presley and Bernard Lansky in 1956. Lansky Bros. was started in 1946 at 126 Beale Street in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. It started as a store that sold leftover Army supplies from World War II, Bernard took advantage of the elevating Beale Street music scene and looked to provide clothing for the typical characters of Beale who wanted to dress dapper.
Store front of Grunewald Music Store on Canal Street in New Orleans in 1894. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, New Orleans was a cultural center, especially for the American South. At-home, amateur music performance as a form of home entertainment was prevalent, and so the market for sheet music was large, particularly ...
Construction of the facility began on April 15, 1963. [5] From its opening in October 1964, the Coliseum was the first racially desegregated facility in Memphis. [5] Unlike most facilities in Memphis, which largely hesitated to integrate following the 1963 Watson v, United States U.S. Supreme Court case regarding local segregation, [5] and which was also argued two days after construction ...
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Walking to New Orleans: The Story of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues: John Broven: 1978 2012 The Voice of the Blues: Jim O'Neal: 2002 2013 Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records: Rob Bowman: 2003 2014 Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke: Peter Guralnick: 2005 2016 Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis: Jeff Todd Titon: 1977 ...
The Winchester Court - Memphis, Tennessee. July 3, 1987, the Winchester Court cinema opened three of its eight screens as the company's and the area's first multiplex. This opening came only three and a half months after construction began. The estimated price tag for the complex was around half a million dollars. The first film shown was ...
Live Nation has announced plans for a new concert venue at 431 N. Claybrook St. in Memphis, across from Crosstown Concourse. The 1,300-capacity venue will operate in partnership with Crosstown.
The Kress store in Baton Rouge was the site of that city's first civil rights sit-in. That event helped save it from demolition 45 years later. [5] In 1964, Genesco, Inc., acquired Kress. The company abandoned its center-city stores and moved to shopping malls. Genesco began liquidating Kress and closing down the Kress stores in 1980.