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StoryBoard announces the A. Schwab Project: A Complete History

Mark Fleischer October 1, 2021 No Comments A s A Schwab Beale Street

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

Chapter16 Community June 24, 2020 No Comments Beale Street Chapter16 Memphis Music 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

Wayne Dowdy May 17, 2020 No Comments Beale Street Court Avenue Downtown Memphis Main Street Mayhem Memphis in May Odd Fellows Hall The Lyceum Theater

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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Beale Street: Home of … a Neighborhood

Tiara Campbell April 8, 2020 5 Comments Beale Street Downtown Memphis Historic District Historic Neighborhood Home of the Blues Memphis Memphis Housing Authority Stanley Booth Urban Renewal

NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD Today’s neon Home of the Blues district was once a thriving Memphis neighborhood By Tiara Campbell Beale Street is the Home of the…

Historic Preservation

The Universal Life Insurance Building: Designing a Better Memphis

Margot Payne July 11, 2019 No Comments Adaptive Reuse Archie W. Willis Archie W. Willis Sr.Beale Street Danny Thomas Boulevard Downtown Memphis Dr. Joseph Edison Walker Egyptian Revival Fred L. Davis Historic Preservation Mark W. Bonner McKissack & McKissack Memphis Memphis Architecture Memphis Negro Chamber of Commerce Memphis Urban League Self + Tucker Architects Third and Beale Tri-State Bank ULICO Universal Life Universal Life Insurance Building Universal Life Insurance Company

“I can only surmise that the founders of Universal Life wanted to make a statement.” Juan Self, Self + Tucker Architects By Margot Payne “To…

History Witnesses To History

‘ANARCHY IN MEMPHIS’ Looking Back At The Infamous 1978 Fire (and Police) Department Strikes

Mark Fleischer June 23, 2019 1 Comment 1978 1978 Fire Department Strike Beale Street Cooper Street Downtown Memphis Elvis Elvis Presley Empty Lots Fire Firefighters Mayor Wyeth Chandler Memphis Memphis Development Foundation Memphis Police Department Strike The Orpheum Theatre Vance Avenue Vance-Pontotoc

1978. Forty-one years ago this summer the Memphis Fire Department Strike left over 200 structures in ruins. To hear witnesses, journalists and historians recall it,…

Opinion

Welcome to The Equitable Issue

Mark Fleischer April 6, 2019 No Comments Bathgate Avenue Beale Street Crotona Park East 175th Street East Tremont Federal Highway Funds Manhattan Mindy Fullilove Robert Moses Root Shock Slum Clearance The Bronx Third Avenue El Urban Renewal Vance-Pontotoc

“You never really know a man until you understand things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in…

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“CITY’S GARBAGE COLLECTORS STRIKE”

Mark Fleischer March 16, 2018 No Comments 1968 Beale Street Civil Rights Movement Dr. Martin Luther King Memphis Memphis Press-Scitimar Sanitation Strike The Commercial Appeal Washington Post Watergate

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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Memphis and Central Gardens During The Preservation Era

Mark Fleischer January 26, 2018 No Comments Beale Street Belvedere Blvd Carl Awsumb Central Avenue Central Gardens Central Gardens Area Association Central Gardens Neighborhood Association Charleston Cleveland Street Historic Conservation District Historic District Overlay Jim Williamson Memphis Landmarks Commission Midtown National Register of Historic Places National Trust for Historic Preservation New Orleans Rembert Street Union Avenue Vance Avenue

Twenty-five years ago, in April of 1993, the Central Gardens Neighborhood gained unanimous approval from the Memphis City Council in becoming the city’s ninth Historic…