Classic Pictures of Old Memphis

Check out this beautiful site ...

http://newmansmemphis.org/artist.asp?ArtistID=33947&Akey=R8HLRW3J

Last edited by George Smith on Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:35 am, edited 1 time in total.

Wonderful, thank you for posting the link, George!

Check out this beautiful site ...

http://newmansmemphis.org

One wonders how many of those buildings are no longer in place.

Here's a nice one:

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Very nice, got to love the picture of the pool at the Chisca Hotel. I recognize a good number of sites which are still there, albeit is a state of disrepair. Here's a picture (couldn't save it) dated as "Graceland pre Elvis". Any thoughts on the year of the car in the driveway?

http://archive.newmansmemphis.org/famai ... mageid=405

Very nice, got to love the picture of the pool at the Chisca Hotel. I recognize a good number of sites which are still there, albeit is a state of disrepair. Here's a picture (couldn't save it) dated as "Graceland pre Elvis". Any thoughts on the year of the car in the driveway?

http://archive.newmansmemphis.org/famai ... mageid=405

The car is hard to make out, but looks to be not too much older than when Elvis purchased the home in early 1957.

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Thanks for the link. Those pics of old Memphis are beautiful!

Beautiful pics. Thanks George!

Incredible history. And for those of us who've been to Memphis, we've been in many of those same places, but much later, so it's eerie, too.

There is so much to think about in some of the photos. You see that swimming pool at the hotel, and it's just a pool, but then you think of larger issues: who did swim in the pool, who could swim in the pool and why . . . a lot to think about.

And some are just great photos: a jewelry store in the distance beyond the "easy credit" sign . . . and you think of who saw such sights, and what they felt.

Thanks!

rjm

Very true, rjm. Love looking at these old photos. "A picture is worth a thousand words."

What struck me was the number of privately owned, unique, "mom-and-pop," family-owned businesses in the photos. Almost ALL gone -- not only in Memphis, but all over the U.S. Sad.

Thanks for posting the website, George. I really enjoyed looking at all of the photos.

What a great site, thank you george for the link!
Great to see the city we read so much about and this giving the feeling to go back in town.
I love the overton park photo!