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Memphis East High School, TSSAA AA State Champions Basketball Team - Circa 1988
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(05-12-2018 03:36 AM)Cletus Wrote:  
(05-11-2018 08:45 PM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  And crazy mayne Spook Bradley #32

PG Alvin Wright front row left
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WDIA Radio Broadcast, (from left) Joe Hill Louis, BB King, Ford Nelson, Rufus Thomas, Willa Monroe, Nat D Williams and Starr McKinley, , Memphis TN - Circa 1954
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B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, 'Ivory' Joe Hunter with the WDIA sponsored Little League Team, Memphis TN - Circa 1960

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Howlin Wolf (looks to be playing the Spoons) and his Orchestra on stage, Hippodrome Nightclub, 500 Beale St. (possibly WDIA Starlite Revue, Ellis Auditorium), Memphis TN - Circa 1958

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Bobby 'Blue' Bland & his Band, Club Handy, Beale St., Memphis TN - Circa 1959

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Isaac Hayes in front of Stax Records and Satellite Record Shop, 926 E. McLemore Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1968

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Isaac Hayes conducting business at his office at Stax Records, 926 E. McLemore Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1971

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Aerial view of a closed Mud Island Airfield during construction of the I-40 Hernando Desoto Bridge, Mississippi River, Wolf River Harbor, Memphis TN - Circa 1970
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Map of Memphis & it's Environs, including Fort Pickering, Overton Tract, & Greenlaw's Addition, Memphis TN - Circa 1860

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James Meredith, crosses the state line from Memphis TN into Mississippi beginning his "March Against Fear" to Jackson, MS. accompanied by Claude Sterrett, UPI Photo - Circa 1966

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Original Stepherson’s Big Star Grocery Store, 3394 Macon Rd., Memphis TN - Circa 1950

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Joan Crawford Promotional Appearance at Stepherson's Big Star Grocery, Poplar Ave. & Perkins Extd., Memphis TN - Circa 1957

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my first job as a kid was at the Big Star on Quince and White Station
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(08-05-2018 10:54 AM)k2tigers Wrote:  my first job as a kid was at the Big Star on Quince and White Station

3 Little Pigs and National Bowling Lanes when the Nettletons owned it.
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Original Concept Drawing
Quince Station Shopping Center, Quince Rd at White Station Rd., Memphis TN - Circa 1959
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(08-03-2018 09:20 PM)Cletus Wrote:  [Image: 24980254317_90b9e24c83_o.jpg]

Original Stepherson’s Big Star Grocery Store, 3394 Macon Rd., Memphis TN - Circa 1950

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That building was recently demolished.
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(08-07-2018 04:34 AM)SayWhat? Wrote:  
(08-03-2018 09:20 PM)Cletus Wrote:  [Image: 24980254317_90b9e24c83_o.jpg]

Original Stepherson’s Big Star Grocery Store, 3394 Macon Rd., Memphis TN - Circa 1950

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That building was recently demolished.

I don't think so. I just drove by there the other night.

It was still standing; but covered by a different facade.

It's at the intersection of Macon Rd. at Maria. Northwest corner.

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