“We’re not out of the woods yet. We could still become a parking lot.” ~Hillsman Lee Wright, Orpheum project manager, in September, 1978 In the…
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Dateline: May-July 1906
Your correspondent takes you on a police raid of local gambling dens, lets you ride on a segregated streetcar, guides you to the many Fourth…
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The Basement is Open: the First Set of Items out of the A. Schwab Collection to be Released
A. Schwab, DIG Memphis, and StoryBoard Memphis release the first few thousand digitally scanned items from the A. Schwab Collection with a Digital Scavenger Hunt…
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POSTPONED: Beale Street Original A. Schwab Dry Goods Store to Receive a Beale Street Brass Note
The store’s Brass Note set for ceremony Saturday, May 6 at 1:00PM on the Blues Stage in Handy Park has been postponed A. Schwab Dry Goods,…
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The Peaceful German invasion of Memphis
By Robert Lanier Monday, August 13, 1945 was another hot Memphis summer day. It was a special day for more reasons than one, however. The…
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To Live Again: A News-clipping History of the Sterick Building
From the Memphis Room archives: A newspaper-clipping history of the “Queen of Memphis” Historic Sterick Building bought by local developer Midday Friday, March 31, the…
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From the Archives: Coverage of the 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike in the White Press
March to Mace: The Sanitation Strike before Martin Luther King Jr.’s invitation to Memphis, and a look at Memphis newspaper coverage of the first few weeks…
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From the Archives: Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis March 2020
Looking back at March, 2020, when the world stopped. By Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent shares some of his Covid-19 experiences and offers historical context for…
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The Mid-South Coliseum, the “People’s Building,” must be given more fair grounds to work with
For the sake of soul and $52 million*, The Coliseum, and Memphis communities, deserve better StoryBoard Memphis was founded with the mission to support local…
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The Coliseum, the People’s Building that has it all: It Says “Memphis”
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Originally published in the print edition of StoryBoard Memphis in April, 2019 as part of our “Newman to Now” series; it has…
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