(11-23-2022 05:09 PM)Cletus Wrote:  

(06-30-2022 11:09 PM)Cletus Wrote:  .
The University Club, 1346 Central Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1924
In 1924, the University Club moved to 1346 Central Avenue, the former home of supermarket pioneer Clarence Saunders. An athletic building, tennis courts and a swimming pool were added. It is still used today as a venue for private events, sports and recreation.

The University Club, 1346 Central Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1928



Tennis Courts, University Club, 1346 Central Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1934

Originally the home of home of Harry P. Johnson President & Treasurer of canadian H.P. Johnson Investment Company, & Vice-President of the Union Sand and Material Company, Broadway Coal and Ice Company, and Commonwealth Realty Company.

In 1924, the University Club purchased the home on Central Avenue in a Bankruptcy Court auction & moved into the former home of supermarket pioneer Clarence Saunders. An athletic building, tennis courts and a swimming pool were added. It is still used today as a venue for private events, sports and recreation.

An athletic building, squash and handball courts and tennis courts were added over the next two year period. The Club also served as a boarding house for many of its collegiate members and when a fire consumed the building in 1934, boarders escaped from the upper floor windows in their night clothes. Although in the midst of the Great Depression, the members rebuilt and in 1935 opened the new Clubhouse, which is the foundation for the way the Club looks today.

I dated a woman in my callow youth who invited me to play on their clay courts. It was the first time I played on the surface and I remember the experience but not the nice women's name.