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What are your memories of Memphis when you were young?  Write them in an email and send it to the webmaster (gene.gill@verizon.net) or fill out one of the forms on this page.  Your memories will be added below, usually within 24 hours.


 

Memphis in the 1920's

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Hollywood

Dinstuhl's Candy

Mississippi River Flood 1927


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Memphis in the 1950's

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Malco Theater

Warner Theater

Loew's State Theater
Loew's Palace Theater Ellis Auditorium Crime
Censored Films White Magnolia Trees Crump Stadium

WDIA

Overton Park Shell

Drive In Restaurants

Drive In Theaters Oak Park YMCA Peabody Hotel
TV in the 50's Memphis Music Claridge Hotel
Beale Street

Millington Naval Base

Memphis Zoo
Fairgrounds

Ice Storms

Dance Party
Bathroom Blues Planter's Peanuts Pappy & Jimmy's Lobster Shack
Cotton Carnival Children's Ball Maywood Mid-South Fair

Court Square

Lamar Terrace Electric Buses
Poplar Tunes CA Illuminated Flag Fairgrounds Pool
Fairview Jr High Strand - Princess  Capitol Theater
"Filmed in Memphis" Memphis Blue Laws Elvis
Bottle Deposits
- Selling Pop Bottles
Near Miss The "Y"
Maury Elementary School  

 

 

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Memphis in the 1970's

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Mood Rings

The Highland Ave Strip

Lava Lamps
  Elvis Concert  

 

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Memphis in the 1980's

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Mall of Memphis

Cotton Carnival

Peabody Hotel
     


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Memphis in the 2000's

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Dogwoods and Azaleas

 

 


 


Anybody have memories of Front Street, the early Cotton Carnival, the old Cossitt Library, Court Square, The Pink Palace, Graceland, Chickasaw Gardens, Dogwoods and Azaleas, Thanksgiving Parades, Christmas Parades, Houses with only 1 bathroom for families of 6-8, Krystal Burgers by the "sack full", Overton Park, Wrestling on TV, Mid-South Fair, Fairview Jr. High, Snowdon Jr. High, Mr. Highsaw, Miss Effie Wright, Elvis, learning how to drive, telephones with operators and party lines, typewriters, tape machines, film cameras, Kodak brownie box camera,  Polaroid Cameras, vinyl records 33 1/3...45 rpm, TV Trays, Kream Kastle, Britling's Cafeteria, Japanese Gardens (Overton Park), Lenox Elementary, The Memphian Theater, Confederate Park, "swimming holes", your first car, your first date, etc.???
 

 

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