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Showing posts with label Vintage Pictures Of Memphis TN. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Vintage Pictures Of Memphis TN



View of Memphis and Old Naval Hospital and Old  Memphis and Harrahan bridges over the Mississippi River


... from Memphis proper, but from the rural area surrounding the City at the time. Once again, bear in mind that these cards reflect the social and economic ...

 
Exterior View of the Overton Hotel # 2



1930's Memphis Tennessee Postcard Aerial View


Main Street, North from Union Ave., Memphis, Tenn - postcard mailed 1909


Freight Barges on the Mississippi River approaching Memphis, TN 


The Bedford Forrest Memorial On Union Ave. 


Memphis River Front and Levee in Business District Vintage Tennessee Postcard 


"Main St. north from Gayoso Ave., Memphis, Tenn." - Feb. 1910 


The Peabody Hotel is still around, as are the pillars at the Fairgrounds entrance; but the Shelby County Building burned a few years ago, ... 
 

Saint Joseph's Hospital


The Chisca Hotel, circa 1920


Transportation of Cotton by Rail, Memphis TN - Circa 1911 


Here is another scan from the antique Memphis postcard set. This single image shows the Memphis and Harrahan bridges over the Mississippi River. 


Shelby County Court House 
 

Forrest Park — As It Looked Then, and As It Might Look Soon? 


Replica Model T ride at Libertyland, Memphis, Tenn. - ca. 1980 postcard 


Memphis Union Station postcard issued soon after the station opened in April 1912. 


... building and courthouse, now the University of Memphis Law School. Unfortunately, the original Cossitt Library building next to it is no longer with us. 


Graceland, Memphis, TN 


 




 


Sunday, January 19, 2014

Vintage Pictures Of Memphis, TN


Riverfront 1900's


U.S. Customs Building on left / Cossitt Library 1940's on right and cars are parked on the cobblestone bank of the Mississippi River.



Seesel's Grocery Drawing on Austin Peay Hwy. this building has been torn down.



Do you remember wearing these in school?



Memphis Bluff's on the Mississippi River 1906



 U.T.'s Medical Campus 1947



Leahy's on Summer Ave. Memphis, TN



Memphis State College now MSU / Scate's Hall



Tennessee Brewery 495 Tennessee St. Memphis, TN



St. Joseph Hospital this building has been razed and replaced with St. Jude Research Hospital.





Planters Peanuts and Old McDonald's on Summer Ave. Memphis, TN


Rhoades/Southwestern University on Parkway 

It is, of course, very beautiful but not as green. All the space between the women's quad and the backs of the Hein Park houses has to be parking lots. However, the center of the campus behind Briggs and in front of Mallory Gym has no traffic at all any more. Just foot traffic and a huge lawn bounded by the music building and the new library. All the parking surrounds the buildings, one drives all the way around the gyms to find parking for McCoy Theatre (in the old Zeta house). V. Astor


(left-bottom) Building of the Hyatt at Poplar 1974? 


Peabody Hotel located at Main St. and Monroe 1900 


Humko on Watkins Ave. building has been razed.


Clark Towers Building on Popular Ave. 

 
Botanical Gardens East Memphis
 
 

Pictures Of Audubon Park In East Memphis. 


National Cemetery Jackson Ave. 


Fishing Rodeo 1951 Audubon Park 



Elvis' 26th birthday 


Orgill Brothers Downtown 

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