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Cletus Offline
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RE: Memphis Landmarks
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RE: Memphis Landmarks
1940's Main Street

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Madison Ave from just east of the YMCA looking west toward 3rd Street.
Must be early 1920's


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09-22-2010 01:54 AM
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RE: Memphis Landmarks
the Loeb's corner at Summer/ White Sta. looks a whole lot different these days!

I love me some Jack Pirtles. I think its better than Gus's. Hate that there isnt a JP's anywhere even close to me.
09-22-2010 01:57 PM
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Is this what you wanted to show?
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RE: Memphis Landmarks
Harry Glaser's Embers Restaurant - Flame Kist Steaks

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Main Street north at Gayoso Avenue, Memphis, TN c. 1909?

signs visible, left to right:
left side of street:
- Goldsmith's (department store)
- Jno. W. Harris (men's store - hats, suits, furnishings) 369 Main Street
- Nelly? Women's Fashionable Attire
- Hessig Ellis Drug Co. - Wholesale Drugs, Druggists Sundries, Patent Medicines, Soda, Drugs, Open All Night
- Houck's (piano store) - Krell-French (piano maker - uncle of owner) - Kershner Pianos (owner's own brand) and some other signs I can't read
- Dupree (store's name?) - Florist, Post Cards, Magazines, The Florsheim Shoe for Men
- "Old Dominick" Whiskey (painted billboard), Ignatz Signs
- Drugs (I can't see the name)
- Floyd's (an upscale restaurant)
- Mook - no idea what this business was
- Pantaze (drugstore)
- EEE (shoe store)
- Bry's (department store)

in the road:
- D.A. Frayser (might be an ad for the services of David A. Frayser, a prominent Memphis lawyer and one of the first teachers at the Memphis College of Law - but not the namesake of Frayser, TN)
- Kress Brings the World to You

right side of street:
- Samelson (cigars, tobacco, grocery)
- _____ Shoes
- Kress - 5-10-25 cent Store
- Reliable - no idea what this business was
- Levy & Gre__?
- Waldorf Cafe
- Mivelaz Hotel (above the Waldorf Cafe)
- Gibson's - Carpets, Rugs, Draperes
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RE: Memphis Landmarks
Enchanted Shoe Store - Lamar and Semmes

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(09-22-2010 09:37 PM)Cletus Wrote:  Is this what you wanted to show?

Yes, thanks! I guess I just need to use the old tags and stop linking from the toolbar.
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(09-23-2010 07:44 AM)Cletus Wrote:  [Image: IMG_0729_big.jpg]

FREE BAG OF CHIP!!!!!
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The Mid-South Coliseum and Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium (originally Memphis Memorial Stadium)
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Memphis Sporting Landmark?

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Union at Cooper Panorama showing Methodist Church in middle of CVS Pharmacy legal battle

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Sivad's Hearse at Brooks Art Gallery

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(11-06-2010 12:37 PM)Cletus Wrote:  Memphis Sporting Landmark?

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Dayum.
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Cooper at Central
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(06-01-2010 03:21 PM)formanner Wrote:  A couple of my haunts as a kid of the '80s...

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Add Malibu Grand Prix to that list. Mall of Memphis was pretty cool back in the day.
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This was a pretty nice water park back in the day. So disappointing we don't have things like this around here now.

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1st Presbyterian Church - CIRCA 1912


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Poplar Plaza Shopping Center - 1950's
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Leonard's Pit Barbecue - Postcard mailed 1952
"Serving Memphis 30 Years
1140 S. Bellevue Blvd."

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Grand Carousel, Libertyland, Memphis, Tenn. - Postcard mailed 1980
"LIBERTYLAND

The Grand Carousel is the pride of Libertyland. Built in Germany in 1923, each horse and chariot is hand carved and is one of only two designs left in the world."
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