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John Rogers Tennis Center, Beauregard Park, Jefferson Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1960

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Horseshoe Liquor Store Neon Sign, Beale St., Memphis TN - Circa 1968

Gallina Exchange Building, Beale Street, Memphis TN - Circa 1972

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Joseph B. Williams Steam Tow Boat pushing the largest record to date of Coal Boats & Barges, photo by JC Coovert, Mississippi River, Memphis TN - Circa 1898

The amount of Coal in the tow was 1,453,000 bushels. The largest amount of Coal ever moved on western rivers. It covers a space on the water nearly equal to 8 acres.

The tow consisted of 52 coalboats, 4 barges, 3 flats, & 1 boxboat.
The size of a coalboat is 175 feet in length - 26 feet wide - 10 feet deep.

To move by train would require 1,937 ordinary freight cars which would stretch out a distance of over 12 miles.

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Looking East seeing the effects of Urban Renewal down Beale St. toward Danny Thomas, Memphis TN - Circa 1970

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Al Chymia Shrine Circus, Mid-South Coliseum, Fairgrounds, Memphis TN

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Ford Assembly Plant, Architect Albert Kahn, South Parkway W. & Riverside Blvd., Memphis TN - Circa 1924

Architect Albert Kahn
Albert Kahn (March 21, 1869 – December 8, 1942) was the foremost American industrial architect of his day.
He is sometimes called the "architect of Detroit", designing such major industrial works as the Ford River Rouge Complex, the largest in the world when built;
as well as skyscrapers and office buildings in the city, and mansions in the suburbs.
He built a practice with hundreds of architects; in 1937 his firm designed 19 percent of all architect-designed factories in the U.S.

In 1937, Albert Kahn Associates was responsible for 19 percent of all architect-designed factories in the U.S.
In 1941, Kahn received the eighth-highest salary and compensation package in the U.S., $486,936, of which he paid 72% in tax.

Albert Kahn worked on more than 1,000 commissions from Henry Ford and hundreds for other automakers.
Kahn designed showrooms for Ford Motor Company in several cities, including New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston.
He died in Detroit on December 8, 1942.

As of 2006, approximately 60 Kahn buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Ford Assembly Plant, Architect Albert Kahn, South Parkway W. & Riverside Blvd., Memphis TN - Circa 1924

Architect Albert Kahn
Albert Kahn (March 21, 1869 – December 8, 1942) was the foremost American industrial architect of his day.
He is sometimes called the "architect of Detroit", designing such major industrial works as the Ford River Rouge Complex, the largest in the world when built;
as well as skyscrapers and office buildings in the city, and mansions in the suburbs.
He built a practice with hundreds of architects; in 1937 his firm designed 19 percent of all architect-designed factories in the U.S.

In 1937, Albert Kahn Associates was responsible for 19 percent of all architect-designed factories in the U.S.
In 1941, Kahn received the eighth-highest salary and compensation package in the U.S., $486,936, of which he paid 72% in tax.

Albert Kahn worked on more than 1,000 commissions from Henry Ford and hundreds for other automakers.
Kahn designed showrooms for Ford Motor Company in several cities, including New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston.
He died in Detroit on December 8, 1942.

As of 2006, approximately 60 Kahn buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

My Dad worked there after the war

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Offices of the Chickasha Cotton Oil Company, Anadarko Cotton Oil Company & James E. Brooks, Cotton Broker. Front St. at Madison Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1926

Building on the right is 67 Madison Ave.
This 12 story structure was built in 1924 as the headquarters for the Union Planters Bank. This major financial institution was founded after the Civil War and was the largest bank in Memphis. Designed by architects McKim, Mead and White, the building was recently renovated and converted to apartments with the lobby and mezzanine used for retail space. The building was added to the National Register in 1979 and was featured in the 1993 movie "The Firm"

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Dedication of Handy Park, Beale St. at Third St., Memphis TN - Circa 1931
Hotel Peabody, Hull-Dobbs Ford, & Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co. Building in background

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Aerial view of Memphis and Charleston Railroad Depot & Southern RR Lauderdale Yard, Memphis TN - Circa 1948

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Baron Hirsch Synagogue, Washington Ave. & Fourth St., Memphis TN - Circa 1912

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Baron Hirsch Synagogue, Washington Ave. & Fourth St., Memphis TN - Circa 1912

is that 247 Washington Ave ?

May have been but it’s a parking lot now.

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Baron Hirsch Synagogue, Washington Ave. & Fourth St., Memphis TN - Circa 1912

is that 247 Washington Ave ?

That's a GREAT question that I wouldn't have thought of until you brought it up.

It's about the right size & it's the exact location of the Circa 1912 photo.

Here it is when I took a photo of it in 2019 & the plaque with info.

City of Memphis Public Works Building, 247 Washington Ave., Memphis TN - Remodeled Circa 1956

I believe that’s the former Menorah Institute that was built next to the synagogue.

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J. S. Drummond Service Station, Pan-Am Gas & Motor Oil, Jackson Ave. at Breedlove St., Memphis TN - Circa 1920

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The South End Bar-Restaurant, S. Front St. at Calhoun Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1993

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Goodwinslow, 4066 James Rd., Memphis TN - Built Circa 1886

Goodwinslow was placed on the National Register on Dec. 6, 1979.

Considered to be the oldest house in Raleigh, construction of the Goodwinslow Home (also known as Chapman House) started about 1875 and was finished around the turn of the century. The original owner, William Washington Goodwin, served in the Confederate cavalry under General N.B. Forrest during the Civil War. Inspired by architecture he saw in Europe, Goodwin had design elements incorporated into the composition of his home. The earliest section resembles a medieval Germanic castle and the outline of Goodwin’s English garden still remains. Added in 1880, a steeply pitched gable roof covers a single story middle section. The final sections, added in 1890 and 1900, were inspired by Italian villas. A two-and-a-half story crenellated tower with small turrets stands behind the center section. The interior of the home contains twenty rooms with a mixture of styles including Medieval-style fireplaces mixed with Corinthian capitals.

Anne Goodwin Winslow was born on her family’s estate outside Memphis, Tennessee, she and her sisters were educated by their attorney father in a rather laissez-faire manner. He gave them the run of his library and encouraged them to spend long hours reading and thinking and talking about what they read. Then, when she was still a teenager, Eben Eveleth Winslow, a West Point graduate and captain in the Corps of Engineers, asked for her hand and off she went into the itinerant life of an Army wife. Their tours included Oahu, where Winslow oversaw the construction of Fort DeReussy and other fortifications, and Panama, where he built bases to protect the new canal. He became the Army’s expert on coastal fortifications, and his 1920 book, Notes on Seacoast Fortification Construction, can be found on the Internet Archive. Over a thirty year career, he rose to be the acting Chief of Engineers when the U. S. entered World War One in 1917 and led the enormous expansion of the Army’s ranks and facilities over the next two years.

When General Winslow retired in 1922, he and Anne headed back to Anne’s family home outside Memphis. There they oversaw the raising of cotton, fruit and nuts, pigs and cattle, and she began to write and publish her poetry. Winslow died in 1928. With both her children grown and out of the house, Anne settled into the graceful life of a dowager, with a steady stream of visitors to keep things interesting.

Her poetry was quickly accepted by such journals as the Atlantic and the North American Review, and she developed friendships with a number of literary figures, including Vachel Lindsay and William Alexander Percy. Allen Tate and his wife, Caroline Gordon, became particular friends, and the aging Ford Madox Ford came along for a visit while on his extended stay with the Tates as their house guest. In one of his very last books, Great Trade Route (1937), Ford described the Winslow home as antebellum menagerie, very relaxed, where, “… peacocks wandered nonchalantly in and out of the room, and it was quiet, and profuse, and hospitable.” Life there seemed “to run on wheels in a deep shade.”

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The South End Bar-Restaurant, S. Front St. at Calhoun Ave., Memphis TN - Circa 1993

jake was always ahead of his time with downtown development

enjoyed many foster's oil cans listening to
voodoo village people or kaya and the wailers

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Goodwinslow, 4066 James Rd., Memphis TN - Built Circa 1886

Goodwinslow was placed on the National Register on Dec. 6, 1979.

Considered to be the oldest house in Raleigh, construction of the Goodwinslow Home (also known as Chapman House) started about 1875 and was finished around the turn of the century. The original owner, William Washington Goodwin, served in the Confederate cavalry under General N.B. Forrest during the Civil War. Inspired by architecture he saw in Europe, Goodwin had design elements incorporated into the composition of his home. The earliest section resembles a medieval Germanic castle and the outline of Goodwin’s English garden still remains. Added in 1880, a steeply pitched gable roof covers a single story middle section. The final sections, added in 1890 and 1900, were inspired by Italian villas. A two-and-a-half story crenellated tower with small turrets stands behind the center section. The interior of the home contains twenty rooms with a mixture of styles including Medieval-style fireplaces mixed with Corinthian capitals.

Anne Goodwin Winslow was born on her family’s estate outside Memphis, Tennessee, she and her sisters were educated by their attorney father in a rather laissez-faire manner. He gave them the run of his library and encouraged them to spend long hours reading and thinking and talking about what they read. Then, when she was still a teenager, Eben Eveleth Winslow, a West Point graduate and captain in the Corps of Engineers, asked for her hand and off she went into the itinerant life of an Army wife. Their tours included Oahu, where Winslow oversaw the construction of Fort DeReussy and other fortifications, and Panama, where he built bases to protect the new canal. He became the Army’s expert on coastal fortifications, and his 1920 book, Notes on Seacoast Fortification Construction, can be found on the Internet Archive. Over a thirty year career, he rose to be the acting Chief of Engineers when the U. S. entered World War One in 1917 and led the enormous expansion of the Army’s ranks and facilities over the next two years.

When General Winslow retired in 1922, he and Anne headed back to Anne’s family home outside Memphis. There they oversaw the raising of cotton, fruit and nuts, pigs and cattle, and she began to write and publish her poetry. Winslow died in 1928. With both her children grown and out of the house, Anne settled into the graceful life of a dowager, with a steady stream of visitors to keep things interesting.

Her poetry was quickly accepted by such journals as the Atlantic and the North American Review, and she developed friendships with a number of literary figures, including Vachel Lindsay and William Alexander Percy. Allen Tate and his wife, Caroline Gordon, became particular friends, and the aging Ford Madox Ford came along for a visit while on his extended stay with the Tates as their house guest. In one of his very last books, Great Trade Route (1937), Ford described the Winslow home as antebellum menagerie, very relaxed, where, “… peacocks wandered nonchalantly in and out of the room, and it was quiet, and profuse, and hospitable.” Life there seemed “to run on wheels in a deep shade.”

Great story and pictures