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RE: Memphis Landmarks - TJT - 08-05-2010 12:23 PM

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RE: Memphis Landmarks - Cletus - 08-05-2010 02:41 PM

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Memphis - Military Hospital
This building is beside the Memphis Metal Museum on the Mississippi River. It is actually hid by the large, no longer occupied, military facility that you see in the background.

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Looks like very early 1950's


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RE: Memphis Landmarks - Cletus - 08-05-2010 02:52 PM

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Hotel Gayoso, Memphis TN - 1942 deco postcard and 1930s postcards

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Main Street, North from Union Ave., Memphis, Tenn - postcard mailed 1909

RE: Memphis Landmarks - Cletus - 08-05-2010 03:03 PM

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The Memphis Country Club, Memphis, TN - postcard and matchbook
"New Country Club. Memphis, Tenn." mailed 1909

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Ray Gammon's Restaurant, Memphis, TN
- popular Memphis restaurant that was at 2374 Summer Ave. near where it begins at Parkway near Overton Park.

- a postcard mailed in 1957 and some ads and a mention from the Sou'wester from the '50s and '60s

more info on Ray Gammon's in this Ask Vance column: www.memphismagazine.com/gyrobase/Magazine/Content?oid=oid...

RE: Memphis Landmarks - neillis - 08-05-2010 03:47 PM

Holy cow the Deco inspiration on the Gayoso cards look great. I would love those in framed poster size.

RE: Memphis Landmarks - Cletus - 08-05-2010 06:09 PM

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RE: Memphis Landmarks - Cletus - 08-05-2010 06:15 PM

(08-02-2010 08:40 PM)TigerInPrisonWithALaptop Wrote:  Still hard to believe the ignorant biatches tore this place down.
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Yeah; they tore down the beautiful one and kept the ugly one. Go figure!

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RE: Memphis Landmarks - Cletus - 08-05-2010 06:33 PM

University of Memphis aerial view - October 12, 1940

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RE: Memphis Landmarks - Hernando Hills Tiger - 08-05-2010 06:58 PM

Mr. Ray's on Summer was a great place to eat. Good bar b q too. Terrible what happened to him.

RE: Memphis Landmarks - kabluey - 08-05-2010 08:38 PM

(08-05-2010 06:15 PM)Cletus Wrote:  
(08-02-2010 08:40 PM)TigerInPrisonWithALaptop Wrote:  Still hard to believe the ignorant biatches tore this place down.
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Yeah; they tore down the beautiful one and kept the ugly one. Go figure!

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On the other hand we managed to preserve the Old Post Office for a great use.

It's time to build beautiful buildings in Memphis again. Reviving Trinity Tower would be a great start (as would One Beale) when the economy and market revive. Add a gorgeous modern building to our skyline hodgepodge of beautiful old structures and somewhat odd boxy modern derivatives (Cannon Center is functional but the exterior is underwhelming; the same could be said for several new buildings. Nice ones include Autozone Park and Bridges' hq; I am undecided about the new Playhouse, but was surprised it didn't have a traditional marquee). I wonder what it is about design that the owners or architects seem to shrink from bold but timeless and classic architecture.

RE: Memphis Landmarks - Cletus - 08-06-2010 10:26 AM

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several old views of the Hotel Gayoso, Memphis, Tenn.
descriptions, clockwise from top left:
"Memphis Gayoso Hotel and Florist"
"Memphis Hotel Gayoso" - mailed 1914
"Hotel Gayoso, Memphis, Tenn" - unmailed
"Hotel Gayoso" - mailed 1904
"Memphis Hotel Gayoso
"Gayoso Hotel, Memphis, Tenn." - mailed 1908
"Rear Hotel Gayoso, Memphis, Tenn." - mailed 1908
"Gayoso Hotel, Memphis, Tenn." - mailed 1910

The left hand side was Goldsmith's Department Store.


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Crump Stadium - 1940

RE: Memphis Landmarks - Cletus - 08-06-2010 10:30 AM

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Bad drivers, it seems, have always been a problem in our city. And in the 1940s, an anonymous photographer documenting an automobile accident captured an image of a downtown street scene that no longer exists.

The old photo shows the intersection of Main and Washington, looking southeast towards the Sterick Building looming in the distance. The three-story brick building on the corner, with the Canada Dry Spur sign ("It's a finer Cola" — wow, what a lame slogan!) painted on the side, is the Jefferson Hotel.

Constructed in 1915, the hotel occupied the second and third floors of the building, and originally offered patrons a range of rooms costing from 50 cents to $1.50 a night. The proprietor, a fellow named Abraham Alperin, operated a clothing store on the ground floor and lived in the rear of his shop.


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RE: Memphis Landmarks - georgiatiger - 08-06-2010 11:09 AM

Bell Tavern
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Raleigh Springs Inn
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Cossitt Library and Customs House
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Cotton Exchange
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St. Agnes - Vance Ave.
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RE: Memphis Landmarks - georgiatiger - 08-06-2010 11:40 AM

The Parkway System

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Old Fairgrounds Entrance Gates
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RE: Memphis Landmarks - poppaslaw - 08-06-2010 12:03 PM

I don't remember seeing this in the thread, although it could be here. Great pics!

Ashlar Hall

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RE: Memphis Landmarks - poppaslaw - 08-06-2010 12:07 PM

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RE: Memphis Landmarks - TJT - 08-06-2010 12:17 PM

I can't find a pic, but there used to be a catfish place called The Shelby. They had an all you can eat night. I remember going as a young kid, it was delicious.

RE: Memphis Landmarks - Hernando Hills Tiger - 08-06-2010 12:26 PM

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I was told that Harpos was closed down. Anybody able to verify whether this fine institution is still there?

RE: Memphis Landmarks - TJT - 08-06-2010 04:02 PM

I am pretty sure that it was shut down.

RE: Memphis Landmarks - georgiatiger - 08-06-2010 05:07 PM

(08-06-2010 12:17 PM)TJT Wrote:  I can't find a pic, but there used to be a catfish place called The Shelby. They had an all you can eat night. I remember going as a young kid, it was delicious.

I can't find a pic either, but if it was Shelby Restaurant on Hwy 64 it burned down.