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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.
Rum Boogie Café is a night club on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. It is one of the main venues for the International Blues Challenge and is the favored performance location of singer James Govan. [1] [2] It was named "Blues Club of the Year" by the Blues Foundation in 2007. [3] [4]
South of Beale's South Main location provides guests with an excellent view of the street, Monday, April 12, 2021, in Memphis, Tenn. In 2020, the couple opened SOB East, its second location, at ...
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 ...
Memphis businessman and Gibson Companies CEO J.W. Gibson speaks an event to celebrate the purchase of the building at 126 Beale St. by Memphis Rock ’n’ Soul Inc. and to announce plans for it ...
The New Daisy Theatre is a music venue located on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee.It plays host to both local and national acts, as well the site of rental events. [1]The theater opened in 1936 and has featured artists such as John Lee Hooker, Gatemouth Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Al Green, Sam and Dave, Bob Dylan, Alex Chilton, the Cramps, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Phish, Kid Memphis, Son Lewis ...
The fun will happen at Bellower Coffee’s original location at 525 S. Highland St. from 9 a.m.-noon and the new Shelby Farms location in the Park Visitor Center from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. When: Dec. 2
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 ...