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Memphis B.B. King Elvis Presley Welcome Center 35°03′40″N 90°01′27″W / 35.06117636919467°N 90.02412747865334°W / 35.06117636919467; -90.02412747865334
The obelisk was destroyed once in 2003 in the aftermath of Hurricane Elvis [2] and again during strong storms in May 2017. [3] In October 2006, a bronze sculpture by artist David Alan Clark [4] was erected in the park to commemorate the event and to honor the civil hero. The sculpture depicts the rescue of a survivor saved from drowning in the ...
The Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument is a bronze sculpture by Charles Henry Niehaus, Niehaus, one of the most preeminent sculptors in U.S. history was paid $25,000 in 1901 to create it, the equivalent of $676,000 in today’s money and all of it raised from private donations, [1] depicts Confederate States of America Lt. General and first-era Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest ...
In 2011, a new statue was added to "Veterans Plaza" in Overton Park, a space already home to the iconic 1926 "Doughboy" statue, which is not just iconic by dynamic: It depicts a steely (or at ...
MEMPHIS MUSIC: From Elvis to B.B. King, ... Jordan Lugar, of the Lugar Bronze Foundry in Arlington, which cast the bronze Cash statue, and Memphis artist Yvonne Bobo, who specializes in large ...
Bob Mehr, Memphis Commercial Appeal June 15, 2024 at 6:00 AM Elvis Presley lived at Graceland in Memphis for more than 20 years — from its purchase in the spring of 1957 until his death in the ...
B.B. King statue in Indianola, Mississippi [9] Chief Piomingo statue in Tupelo, Mississippi [10] Flagbearer for the Mississippi 11th at Gettysburg National Military Park [11] George E. Merrick statue in Coral Gables, Florida [12] Elvis Presley statue in Tupelo, Mississippi [13] William Faulkner statue in Oxford, Mississippi [14]
During the 1930s and 1940s, the Shell was the site of Memphis Open Air Theater orchestral shows, along with various light opera and musicals. However, on July 30, 1954, Elvis Presley opened for headliner Slim Whitman, and performed what music historians call the first-ever rock and roll show. [1]