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SB 30 Episode 22: Inside the Revival of the Universal Life Building, with Juan Self & Jimmie Tucker

StoryBoard News Board August 7, 2019 No Comments Beale Street Danny Thomas Boulevard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Jimmie Tucker Juan Self Linden Ave MLK Ave.Self + Tucker Architects Universal Life Insurance Company Vance Avenue Vance-Pontotoc

On this week’s show, host Mark Fleischer sat down with Juan Self and Jimmie Tucker, partners at Self + Tucker Architects, to talk about the…

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History Witnesses To History

‘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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From The Editor 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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