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Enjoy viewing many "Memphis Memories" of the 50's, 60's & 70's from our youth.
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In the 60's, Memphis was still the cotton capital
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MerryMobile - "The Popcicle Man"
A local man found a run down, very old MerryMobile and restored it like new. They were in business from 1954 to 1973. |
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Frostop "Lot-O- Burgers" on Getwell @ Quince in the 60's
The absolute best burgers & root beer in town. I was also informed there was one in Whitehaven back then. |
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Remember the "PIG & Whistle" on Union Ave.
They had a drive-in located at the back. |
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"Pig & Whistle" Drive In on Union Avenue
Menu Cover Their onion rings were the very best in Memphis. |
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Remember Sivad in the 60's....on Saturday "Fantistic Features" on WHBQ?
You can view him in action on YouTube, just click below: www.youtube.com/watch |
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Here's another photo of Sivad. View more photos and read about him on the WHBQ tribute web site.
Click on the link below and view on Youtube. www.guerrillamonsterfilms.com/memphis/SIVADS/index.html |
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Harold "HAPPY HAL" Miller
Happy Hal's Fun House ran on TV for 17 yers. |
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Sandy's Hamburgers
located on Summer and one on Highland |
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Sandy's menu
There was one on Summer and another on Highland. Love those prices !!! |
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Christmas at Lowensteins - Mr. Bingle
Lowensteins went out of business many years ago. |
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Berretta's on Park Avenue @ Highland
It's now "Gone With the Wind" |
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The Big Shoe Store on Lamar Avenue - Now torn down
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Pop Tunes on Poplar Avenue
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WHBQuities with George Klein - Talent Party Show
George Klein is still here in Memphis and has a TV show on the Library channel locally helping keep "Memphis Music Alive." |
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Famous Sun Rocording Studios - First Elvis record was recorded by Sam Phillips here. It's a tourist site now, but I believe you can still record there.
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Malco Theatre - Main St. - Memphis, Tennessee
It's now called the Orpheum theatre for the performing arts |
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Former entrance to the Memphis Zoo that we remember in the 50's & 60's
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New Entrance - Memphis Zoo
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The old Carnivore House - Memphis Zoo - Early 1960's
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South Main Street - Memphis
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VooDoo Village
What can I say? Who remembers driving through there as teens? down right spooky !! |
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Remember the Zippin Pippin at the old Fairgrounds?
2010 they sold it and moved it to Green Bay, Wisconsin. Anyone who visits there and can show a driver's liscense or birth certificate verifying that you're from Memphis can get a free ride. |
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Remember the Loews Palace Theater? It's only a memory now. They tore it down several years ago. Many of us saw lots of movies there.
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Cotton Carnival Royal Barge back in the 60's
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Cotton Carnival Parade on Main Street when we were kids.
Main Street is a bricked in mall now. |
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Cotton Carnival Float
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Wink Martindale and Elvis way back when
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WHBQ Mars Patrol - Wink Martindale
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WHBQ's Wink Martindale - Captain of "Mars Patrol
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Dewey Phillips - Disc Jockey at WHBQ Radio
Played the first Elvis song Also he was a disc jockey at the Colonial Jr. High Sock Hops sometimes on Friday nights about 1959-60. |
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Riverside Drive "way back when." - Memphis, Tennessee
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Remember Lakeland Dragstrip? It's just a memory now.
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Another view of Lakeland Dragstip
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Old Memphian Theater - Cooper St., Mid-town
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Pappy & Jimmy's on Poplar Ave. in
the 60's. It later moved to Summer Ave. |
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Entrance to the Summer Drive-in
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Joy Young's Restaurant on Union Ave.
advertisement |
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Tony's Fruit Stand downtown Memphis
I remember buying fruit there as a teenager. My grandfather built it when he first moved to Memphis. Sonja Ungren |
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Bon Ton Cafe - Monroe St. downtown
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Luau Restaurant - Menu Cover
It was located on Poplar Avenue. |
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Original 3 Little Pigs BBQ on Highland
it's still there |
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Rendenvous Ribs - Entrance in the alley downtown
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Woolco Store on Park Ave. - Arial view
now the location of Eastgate Shopping Center |
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Lansky Bros. on Beale St. - 60's advertisement
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The original sign for the Sky-Vu Drive-in on Park Ave.
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Mid-South Fair main entrance on East Parkway
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TG & Y Store - how many nickels & dimes did we spend there???
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I bet you guys remember RC Cola & a Moon Pie ??
How many of those did we eat ??? haha |
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Top Value Stamps - remember we got those with gas and groceries and traded them in for whatever !!
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Gerber's Dept. Store on Main St. - We girls remember eating at their Tea Room in the 60's
Gerber's went out of business in the 70's. |
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Channel 3 (CBS) Logo in th 60's
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Overton Park Shell
It's been restored and still looks the same. |
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Peabody Hotel Union Avenue
The Peabody is still going strong and people come from all over to see the "march of the ducks." |
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Memphis Riverboats - Foot of Monroe St. and Riverside Drive.....the boats are still in business.
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Pink Palace Museum on Central Avenue - formerly home of Clarence Saunders who started the Piggly Wiggly Grocery Stores.
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Court Square fountain - Main St. - Memphis
it's still there and has not changed. |
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Baptist Hospital, Medical Center
They blew it up and tore it down several years ago
now watch the implosion on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch |
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Memphis State, when it was Memphis State and not UofM
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Ellis Auditorium - Memphis
We graduated there in 1965 It's torn down now. They built new symphony hall. |
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The Coliseum
It's empty now and scheduled to be town down
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Huey's Overton Square - it's still there.
They have opened several other Huey's in the Memphis area.
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Brooks Museum - Overton Park
The old entrance as shown is still there. They built a new entrance on the side of this one and enlarged the whole museum and they now have a restaurant. |
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Arial view of Memphis in the mid-60's
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Liberty Bowl Stadium
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Fairview Drive-in across from the old Fairgrounds on Airways.
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Plaza Theater on Poplar Ave.
Do you remember the first movie you saw there? Mine was "A Summer Place" with Sandra Dee & Troy Donahue - 1959 |
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Main Street Showing the Strand Theater - it looks like back in the 40's
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Snow Cream Castle on Getwell and Willow Road
It has been torn down. |
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Hot Air Balloon - up stairs, Overton Square early 1970's - no longer there.
Yosemite Sam's downstairs - its still there. |
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Park Theater on Park Ave. near Highland.
It was torn down and is now a Walgreens drug store. |
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Al's Golf Haven on Perkins in the 1960's
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Earl's Hot Bisquits on Crump St.
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The coblestones at the riverfront were piled with bales of cotton when Memphis was the
"Cotton Capital of the World" |
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Remember the Giant at Giant Food Store?
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