Fans congratulate Memphis State Tiger Football Players as the team descends to the Locker Rooms, Crump Stadium, Memphis TN - Circa 1963

(02-03-2017 12:58 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  Where were they playing? It's so small.

Crump

(02-03-2017 12:58 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  Where were they playing? It's so small.

Crump Stadium.

Same place we played most of our high school football games. Been up and down those same stairs many times. And to the nearby Methodist Hospital emergency room [more than once]

If I remember right, it held 20 or 30,000 people. It was a real thrill to watch the Tigers play Ole Miss and Mississippi State there

We thought it was the big time for sure.

Crump is small now.

It wasn't that small in the 1950s.

Yeah we moved into the Liberty Bowl (it wasn't called that at the time but whatever) in 1965 I think.

I'm sure the record crowd at Crump was sometime in the late 1950s/early 1960s at 35K or so, if not more.

(02-03-2017 06:32 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote:  Yeah we moved into the Liberty Bowl (it wasn't called that at the time but whatever) in 1965 I think.

I'm sure the record crowd at Crump was sometime in the late 1950s/early 1960s at 35K or so, if not more.

When we were lil kids my best friend's dad took us to some stadium downtown...prolly Crump.... to watch a couple epic battles between Catholic High and CBHS. Seems like it was really crowded.

He taught me the Catholic High fight song-- the wrong words--and I sang them while the crowd cheered. lmao that pic looked familiar

It's not quite downtown.

It's on Cleveland a stone's throw away from Methodist.

Catholic HS is really close to Crump (if it was on N. McLean back in the day) and CBHS used to be before they moved out east. I don't know when they moved from the university's campus, but that isn't far from Crump either.

I was at that game at Crump with my father and grandfather. I still remember cheering for the Rebels. lol What a game. I think that is where my love of football was born, at 11 years old. Daddy played for Central and MUS.

Actually, SnowTiger, Crump Stadium was out in town, and if you passed the Parkways, you were out east.

(11-30-2016 06:30 PM)Cletus Wrote:  

6th Annual Arbeiter Ring Southeastern Conference, 688 Jefferson Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1925

Photo by Clifford H. Poland

How very interesting. I had to look up what this meant. I wonder how many of Memphis' early Jewish families are pictured here?

(02-03-2017 06:47 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote:  It's not quite downtown.

It's on Cleveland a stone's throw away from Methodist.

Catholic HS is really close to Crump (if it was on N. McLean back in the day) and CBHS used to be before they moved out east. I don't know when they moved from the university's campus, but that isn't far from Crump either.

In 1963 Catholic HS, CBHS, & Crump Stadium were all in 'Mid-Town'.

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Arkansas once played a home game against Texas at Crump in addition to many games with Ole Miss. It's where the Power River Play that beat one of Vaught's best teams happened.

View of Misssippi Riverfront from Front St. & Court Ave., where Confederate Park is now, Memphis TN - Circa 1870

Notice there's no Mud Island yet.

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(02-04-2017 11:55 AM)Cletus Wrote:  

View of Misssippi Riverfront from Front St. & Court Ave., where Confederate Park is now, Memphis TN - Circa 1870

Notice there's no Mud Island yet.

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Really enjoy these posts of yours.

In this case, the electrical wires would seem to date the photo later than 1870

(02-04-2017 12:48 PM)dan o Wrote:  

(02-04-2017 11:55 AM)Cletus Wrote:  

View of Misssippi Riverfront from Front St. & Court Ave., where Confederate Park is now, Memphis TN - Circa 1870

Notice there's no Mud Island yet.

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Really enjoy these posts of yours.

In this case, the electrical wires would seem to date the photo later than 1870

Yeah it should've been Circa 1901 as Confederate Park wasn't completed until 1908.

But there was a United Confederate Reunion held on that land in 1901 where the city spent $80,000 to build Confederate Hall. After the Reunion it was demolished and the area was pretty much used as a city dump until Confederate Park was dedicated.

The pic at the bottom was looking east up Court Street from the Cobblestone Riverside toward construction of Falls Building, Memphis TN - Circa 1901






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(02-02-2017 01:23 AM)Cletus Wrote:  Fans congratulate Memphis State Tiger Football Players as the team descends to the Locker Rooms, Crump Stadium, Memphis TN - Circa 1963

Memphis State Team Pic

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Letter Carriers Band N.A.L.C. Branch No. 27, Armistice Parade, Beale St., Memphis TN - Circa November 1924

The Daily Memphis Avalanche Newspaper, Memphis TN - Circa September 11, 1878

During the Yellow Fever Epidemic - Click to enlarge

(03-09-2017 08:24 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  What mark did that make on the land? shrug

o. ok...never mind.

Wonder what the cone was for.

A Pastie?
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(02-03-2017 06:42 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  

(02-03-2017 06:32 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote:  Yeah we moved into the Liberty Bowl (it wasn't called that at the time but whatever) in 1965 I think.

I'm sure the record crowd at Crump was sometime in the late 1950s/early 1960s at 35K or so, if not more.

When we were lil kids my best friend's dad took us to some stadium downtown...prolly Crump.... to watch a couple epic battles between Catholic High and CBHS. Seems like it was really crowded.

He taught me the Catholic High fight song-- the wrong words--and I sang them while the crowd cheered. lmao that pic looked familiar

I drive by crump every now and again and it's fascinating to me - they have these sidewalks that go up to a ticket booth cut into the brick. They obviously aren't used anymore but it's just so different than what you see today. It's actually well designed, they loop up a bit and then funnel people down a small set of steps when they would get their tickets.