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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: An Elvis Story, Memphis, August 20, 2020

Wayne Dowdy August 20, 2020 No Comments Elvis Elvis Presley Elvis Week

By G. Wayne Dowdy In another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…

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Elvis is Everywhere

Ken Billett December 11, 2019 No Comments Arizona Elvis Elvis Presley Verde Valley

A ‘Little’ Memphis in the Verde Valley, AZ MYTHIC MEMPHIS Story and Photos By Ken Billett Junior Wells wails out another sad line about loving…

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

Mark Fleischer June 23, 2019 No Comments 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,…

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