“Don’t Tear Down the Malco!” Urban renewal threats spark looks back at a rich history Urban renewal had crept its way to Beale Street. At…
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‘ANARCHY IN MEMPHIS’ Looking Back At The Infamous 1978 Fire (and Police) Department Strikes
A half-mile away, a two-alarm blaze was consuming the library on Vance. Once known as the “colored branch,” the Vance Library was the prime repository…
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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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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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Blues With a Feeling: the 2023 International Blues Challenge goes on
Words and photos by Ken Billett January 28, 2023—On a wet Saturday night, John Nemeth and his band, The Blue Dreamers, opened their set to…
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More Brass Coming to Beale
Beale Street Brass Note Ceremonies Upcoming After two years of no presentation ceremonies due to pandemic and brass supplier issues, the Beale Street Brass Note…
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Elliott Schwab Interview: The A. Schwab Project
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue III of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in the summer of 2022. If you walk through A. Schwab’s doors, take a…
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StoryBoard announces the A. Schwab Project: A Complete History
StoryBoard embarks on its most ambitious project to-date with a complete history and archive of Memphis’ most enduring and famous store Both from original content…
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Remembering Robert Johnson
From Chapter16: Brother Robert provides a human perspective on the man who changed American music By Michael Ray Taylor, for Chapter16.org The city of Memphis plays…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis: May 1897. Spirits, Sightings, May-hem
Your correspondent takes you to points across the city including Beale Street, the Criminal Courts, Odd Fellows Hall, the Lyceum Theater, and Virginia Avenue, where…
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