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A notable Downtown Memphis restaurant has quietly exited the scene.. Penny’s Nitty Gritty in the Westin Memphis Beale Street Hotel is changing concepts. The hotel is already transitioning into ...
Beale Street in 1974 Beale Street in 2014 Rex Billiard Hall for Colored, Beale Street, 1939. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Beale Street was created in 1841 by entrepreneur and developer Robertson Topp (1807–1876), who soon named it later in the decade for Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a military hero from the Mexican–American War.
The museum offers a comprehensive Memphis music experience beginning with the rural field hollers and porch music of the sharecroppers in the 30s highlighting the urban influences of Beale Street in the 1940s, radio, Sun Records and Sam Phillips in the 1950s, the heyday of Stax, Hi Records and soul music in the 1960s and 1970s, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the music's influence ...
Memphis: 17: Beale Street Historic District: Beale Street Historic District. October 15, 1966 : Beale St. from 2nd to 4th Sts.; also the junction of Beale and 4th Sts
In 2011, the Withers Collection Museum and Gallery was established at 333 Beale St., the site of his last working studio. And on Tuesday, his legacy received a major boost, when the location was ...
Elvis Presley and Bernard Lansky in 1956. Lansky Bros. was started in 1946 at 126 Beale Street in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. It started as a store that sold leftover Army supplies from World War II, Bernard took advantage of the elevating Beale Street music scene and looked to provide clothing for the typical characters of Beale who wanted to dress dapper.