(12-10-2023 07:05 PM)Cletus Wrote:  .
Memphis Gas & Electric Baseball Team, Red Elm Park, Memphis TN - Circa 1912

(12-11-2023 03:13 PM)tigerich Wrote:  I was visiting a friend in the hospital and they announced all visitors please leave. Went outside and watched russwood burn. It was terrible and fascinating at the same time.

(08-26-2023 12:01 AM)Southaven Wrote:  

(08-25-2023 11:41 PM)Cletus Wrote:  

(08-25-2023 07:14 PM)Southaven Wrote:  

(08-25-2023 12:39 PM)3601 Wrote:  

Is that the original that was where the Half Shell is now?

No this is at 786 E Brookhaven Cir, Memphis TN.
The Windjammer originally opened at 688 South Mendenhall.

The Windjammer to close

And the Half Shell was across the tracks where Belmont Grill is.

(12-12-2023 12:09 PM)3601 Wrote:  

(08-26-2023 12:01 AM)Southaven Wrote:  

(08-25-2023 11:41 PM)Cletus Wrote:  

(08-25-2023 07:14 PM)Southaven Wrote:  

(08-25-2023 12:39 PM)3601 Wrote:  

Is that the original that was where the Half Shell is now?

No this is at 786 E Brookhaven Cir, Memphis TN.
The Windjammer originally opened at 688 South Mendenhall.

The Windjammer to close

And the Half Shell was across the tracks where Belmont Grill is.

I knew the Half Shell was where the Belmont is. I did not know that the Windjammer was where the Half Shell is. Was it the same building...or did they tear down the old Windjammer building and build a new building for the Half Shell?

(01-08-2024 01:24 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  I didn’t know they demolished Messick.

(12-18-2023 09:46 PM)Cletus Wrote:  .
Kortrecht High School, Senior Class Photo, Principal G.P. Hamilton, Hooks Bros. photo, Memphis TN - Circa 1925



Portrait of G. P. Hamilton, Educator, Memphis TN

Green Polonius Hamilton (1867 - 1932) was an American Educator, Principal, and Author who was prominent in the African-American community of Memphis, Tennessee.

Hamilton was born in Memphis and graduated from LeMoyne Normal Institute in 1882. He taught and then continued his education at Rust College and Columbia University before becoming principal at the first Memphis high school for African Americans, Kortrecht School. He was married to Alice Richmond Hamilton.

He chronicled Memphis' African American community at the start of the 20th century in his books Bright Side of Memphis (1908) and Beacons of the Race (1911)

Hamilton High School, Hamilton Middle School, and Hamilton Elementary School in Memphis are named for him.

Green P. Hamilton, one of the city's pioneer educators of color, was born in Memphis in 1867. His mother, Laura Hamilton, was ambitious for her son, and he grew up motivated by the importance of obtaining an education. An intelligent lapel, he was a reader and letter writer by the age of ten.

An 1882 graduate with honors from LeMoyne Normal Institute, he completed his education at Rust College, Holly Springs, Mississippi, and Columbia University in New York City. "Professor" Hamilton, as he was called, began teaching in the Memphis city schools in 1884. He became principal of Kortrecht High School, the first Negro public high school in the city, in 1892.

Green Hamilton married Alice Richmond, formerly of Arkansas, who was a teacher in the Memphis city schools. The couple did not have children.

Professor Hamilton organized the first Negro high-school band at Kortrecht around 1900. J. Edgar Hodges, a student who was the son of a prominent Memphis brick contractor, played the trombone, and his sister, Eloora, was soprano soloist. The band presented a benefit concert at Church's Park and Auditorium, in order to raise funds to purchase uniforms and instruments. A. L. Hall, M. D., owner of The Memphis Striker, black newspaper, raised the balance of the needed $900. The band was a big success and toured Mississippi and Arkansas, presenting concerts in the larger cities.

Green P. Hamilton was interested in the progress of his race and was one of the first African-American writers in Memphis to present historical information on citizens of color. He was the author of two books: The Bright Side of Memphis (1908), which he dedicated with feeling to his mother, citing the valiant efforts she put forth to enable him to obtain an education, and Beacon Lights of The Race (1911). Both books are valuable additions to Memphis' history.

Hamilton Elementary School, Hamilton Junior High School, and Hamilton High School are named in honor of Green P. Hamilton.

Roberta Church and Ronald Walter

(01-08-2024 01:36 AM)Cletus Wrote:  

(01-08-2024 01:24 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  I didn’t know they demolished Messick.

Parts of it still stand. There was a Adult Education facility still there.

Don't know if that's still the case.

Commercial Appeal editorial cartoon on possible closure of Messick HS, Memphis TN - Circa 1977

(01-11-2024 10:07 AM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(01-08-2024 01:36 AM)Cletus Wrote:  

(01-08-2024 01:24 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  I didn’t know they demolished Messick.

Parts of it still stand. There was a Adult Education facility still there.

Don't know if that's still the case.

Commercial Appeal editorial cartoon on possible closure of Messick HS, Memphis TN - Circa 1977

Guess the shock of losing to Kingsbury in wrestling was too much for them.

Won my last match as team captain before my knee injury there.