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Looking north down S. Main St. from Union Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1930

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Looking south down Dunlap St. from Jefferson Ave. toward the Scottish Rite Building on Union Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1953

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Mr. Bowers' Stores, Inc., No. 15, 1267 Madison Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1923

Mr. Bowers' Stores, Inc., No. 15, 1267 Madison Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, Circa 1923. One of more than 30 stores in the city owned by Duke Cayce Bowers (1874-1917) by the mid-1910s with the slogan on the outside wall: "You won't get bit if you buy of Mr. Bowers" next to a muzzled dog.



You Won't Get Bit If You Buy of Mr. Bowers, Mr. Bowers Stores, Memphis TN

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Interior of a Mr. Bowers' Stores, Inc. location unknown Memphis TN - Circa 1923

Interior of a Mr. Bowers' Stores, Inc. premises, location unknown (Memphis, Tennessee; 1900s). Photographer: Gaston Park Studio (D.A. Denison), 1128 Rayburn Boulevard, Memphis.

One of more than 30 grocery stores in the city owned by Duke Cayce Bowers (1874-1917) by the mid-1910s who used the slogan: "You won't get bit if you buy of Mr. Bowers" written next to a muzzled dog.

(07-28-2023 01:13 PM)3601 Wrote:  

I remember that place it was at the corner of Willow and Getwell.

(07-29-2023 12:52 PM)msu35 Wrote:  

Thanks for posting this.

WhataBurger on Frayser Blvd. slightly west of N Watkins. I used to eat at the one on Millbranch in Whitehaven years ago.

I ate at the new WhataBurger in Southaven on Goodman Rd. not long after it opened to long lines.

Didn't seem to taste as good as they did back in the day.

(07-29-2023 07:03 PM)Cletus Wrote:  

(07-29-2023 12:52 PM)msu35 Wrote:  

Thanks for posting this.

WhataBurger on Frayser Blvd. slightly west of N Watkins. I used to eat at the one on Millbranch in Whitehaven years ago.

I ate at the new WhataBurger in Southaven on Goodman Rd. not long after it opened to long lines.

Didn't seem to taste as good as they did back in the day.

Glad you appreciated that. I have fond memories of my father taking me to the Frayser location for a burger. I remember asking him once why the burgers were so huge, and of course he replied, "Everything's big in Texas."

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Lyceum Theater, erected 1894 at the corner of 2nd and Jefferson, Memphis TN - Circa 1935

After the original Lyceum Theater burned down in 1893, a second Lyceum Theater was built in 1894 at the corner of 2nd and Jefferson. This photograph was taken in 1935, the same year the building was demolished.

J.A. Padgett, Lawyer, on top floor.
J.H. Morris, Justice of the Peace, 1st Floor.
W.P. Rhea, Real Estate.



Interior of the Lyceum Theater, S.E. corner N. Second & Jefferson Ave., Memphis TN
Stage, Screen, & Orchestra Pit

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Lyceum Theatre, 64 North Second St., Memphis TN - Circa 1930

The Lyceum was opened in 1894 by H.L. Brinkley on the southeast corner of Second and Jefferson after an earlier building burned down the previous year. It featured vaudeville and repertory companies and around 1917 it was the first large theater to show movies regularly when it was leased to Loew's Inc., for a period. By the 1930s, sports and revues, like the "Syncopated Steppers & Beauty Chorus" featured on the marquee, were its primary fare until it was demolished in 1935.

(08-03-2023 03:44 PM)Cletus Wrote:  .
Lyceum Theatre, 64 North Second St., Memphis TN - Circa 1930

The Lyceum was opened in 1894 by H.L. Brinkley on the southeast corner of Second and Jefferson after an earlier building burned down the previous year. It featured vaudeville and repertory companies and around 1917 it was the first large theater to show movies regularly when it was leased to Loew's Inc., for a period. By the 1930s, sports and revues, like the "Syncopated Steppers & Beauty Chorus" featured on the marquee, were its primary fare until it was demolished in 1935.

That looks like a Run on a Bank.

(07-27-2023 04:06 PM)Cletus Wrote:  .
Mr. Bowers' Stores, Inc., No. 15, 1267 Madison Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1923

Mr. Bowers' Stores, Inc., No. 15, 1267 Madison Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, Circa 1923. One of more than 30 stores in the city owned by Duke Cayce Bowers (1874-1917) by the mid-1910s with the slogan on the outside wall: "You won't get bit if you buy of Mr. Bowers" next to a muzzled dog.



You Won't Get Bit If You Buy of Mr. Bowers, Mr. Bowers Stores, Memphis TN

if you buy of Mr. Bowers

Shouldn't it read---if you buy OFF /Mr Bowers?

(08-05-2023 10:40 AM)dan o Wrote:  

(07-27-2023 04:06 PM)Cletus Wrote:  .
Mr. Bowers' Stores, Inc., No. 15, 1267 Madison Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1923

Mr. Bowers' Stores, Inc., No. 15, 1267 Madison Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, Circa 1923. One of more than 30 stores in the city owned by Duke Cayce Bowers (1874-1917) by the mid-1910s with the slogan on the outside wall: "You won't get bit if you buy of Mr. Bowers" next to a muzzled dog.



You Won't Get Bit If You Buy of Mr. Bowers, Mr. Bowers Stores, Memphis TN

if you buy of Mr. Bowers

Shouldn't it read---if you buy OFF /Mr Bowers?

dan o ......... I guess that Grammar Nazi's didn't exist in Circa 1923 lol

Mr. Bowers Stores, In All Parts of the City, Memphis TN - Circa 1923

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Hotel Peabody, 149 Union Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1939

(08-09-2023 11:45 AM)msu35 Wrote:  

Yep .... out Summer Ave. across the street from the Summer Twin Drive-In.
In the former Motel there. I used to eat a Meat & Two plate lunch there in their Restaurant.

That Motel was boarded up for a few years. I think someone bought it & is trying to improve the property.

(08-10-2023 10:35 AM)Cletus Wrote:  

(08-09-2023 11:45 AM)msu35 Wrote:  

Yep .... out Summer Ave. across the street from the Summer Twin Drive-In.
In the former Motel there. I used to eat a Meat & Two plate lunch there in their Restaurant.

That Motel was boarded up for a few years. I think someone bought it & is trying to improve the property.

I miss that place, they had some pretty good food. We would go there on a Friday or Saturday evening. I would get their oyster bienville, man they were good. There was always this little old lady that ran the cash register when you paid your Bill.

(08-10-2023 12:09 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(08-10-2023 10:35 AM)Cletus Wrote:  

(08-09-2023 11:45 AM)msu35 Wrote:  

Yep .... out Summer Ave. across the street from the Summer Twin Drive-In.
In the former Motel there. I used to eat a Meat & Two plate lunch there in their Restaurant.

That Motel was boarded up for a few years. I think someone bought it & is trying to improve the property.

I miss that place, they had some pretty good food. We would go there on a Friday or Saturday evening. I would get their oyster bienville, man they were good. There was always this little old lady that ran the cash register when you paid your Bill.

Alive and well in Covington.

(08-10-2023 01:53 PM)ohmboy Wrote:  

(08-10-2023 12:09 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(08-10-2023 10:35 AM)Cletus Wrote:  

(08-09-2023 11:45 AM)msu35 Wrote:  

Yep .... out Summer Ave. across the street from the Summer Twin Drive-In.
In the former Motel there. I used to eat a Meat & Two plate lunch there in their Restaurant.

That Motel was boarded up for a few years. I think someone bought it & is trying to improve the property.

I miss that place, they had some pretty good food. We would go there on a Friday or Saturday evening. I would get their oyster bienville, man they were good. There was always this little old lady that ran the cash register when you paid your Bill.

Alive and well in Covington.

Don't know if it's still there after COVID.

749 N Main St, Covington, TN 38019, USA