Cover photo by Fred Toma. NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD Idlewild’s Expansion Affirms Commitment to Community, Once Again By Margot Payne Midtown, Before Midtown When you think of…
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I. The Preservation Era Arrives, Finally, In Memphis
Memphis Historic Preservation Part I: The Slums & White Flight By Mark Fleischer “We’re late. There’s not much left to save. There has been a…
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Mother Jones, “The most dangerous woman in America”
A MEMPHIS CONNECTION – INSPIRED by WILLIE BEARDEN By Joe Lowry The most dangerous woman in America was a title coined by a United States…
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Blues, Chicks & Red Sox: Baseball in Memphis
By Mark Hayden What better way to explain baseball’s hold and history on Memphians than with a visit to the corner of Union and B.B.…
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Brief History of Riverside Drive in Historic Photos
Before Tom Lee Park, Riverside Drive evolved from an unstable bank along the bluff in the 1930s to a scenic drive – “a fresh beautiful…
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On City Zoning, The Supreme Court Ruled That: “…there must be progress, and… they must yield to the good of the community.”
This is the third in a series of articles in StoryBoard and Memphis Heritage’s newsletter, The Keystone, that are centered on the first Comprehensive City…
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A Little Late, But Vital
The First Comprehensive Plan The previous article on the history of Memphis from its founding in 1819 in our last issue set the stage for…
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Skyline Reflections Old and New
Landmarks Lost and Revived Memphis has about the most arcane, varied city skylines anywhere. Composed of half a dozen true high-rise buildings and a few…
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Dateline: Memphis, August 1950
The war in Korea dominated this month in Memphis history as young Memphians were conscripted for duty in the Far East and the first reports…
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Dateline: Memphis, July 1979
Your correspondent explains the significant events of this month in Memphis history, including the story of a railroad worker’s Memphis moment, a very brief-ing on…
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