#1 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Country Music Hall of Fame
Millington TN
~0.05 miles from Memphis city center
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The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is located at 222 Fifth Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Its mission is to identify and preserve the evolving history and traditions of country music and to educate its audiences. Functioning as a local history museum and as an international arts organization, the CMF serves visiting and non-visiting audiences including fans, students, scholars, members of the music industry, and the general public - in the Nashville area, the nation, and world.
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Memphis Music Hall of Fame
Memphis TN
~0.05 miles from Memphis city center
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Traveler Description: A celebration of Memphis' rich musical tradition, from slave chants to Elvis.
Attraction type: Museum, Other
Activities: Leisure Education, Kayaking
Address: 97 South Second Street Memphis, TN 38103
Tel: 901-525-4007
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
AutoZone Park
Memphis TN
~0.11 miles from Memphis city center
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Statue of Elvis
Memphis TN
~0.21 miles from Memphis city center
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This Statue of Elvis —nine-and-a-half-feet tall and made of bronze—replicates the original that stood here from 1980 to 1994. That statue was removed and restored because of damage done by souvenir hunters. The original can be found at the Tennessee Welcome Center , which is open 24 hours daily. Have your photo made with Elvis here as many of his fans have done over two decades on historic Beale Street.
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Handy Park
Memphis TN
~0.23 miles from Memphis city center
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Attraction type: Park
Address: 200 Beale Street Memphis, TN 38103
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum
Memphis TN
~0.23 miles from Memphis city center
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Traveler Description:
Chronicling the artists and the music that shaped the legacy of "Memphis Sound," this museum features the Smithsonian's "Rock 'n' Roll: Social Crossroads" exhibition.
Attraction type: Specialty museum, History museum, Other
Activities: Leisure Education
info@memphisrocknsoul.org
Address: 191 Beale St Memphis, TN 38103
Tel: 901-205-2533
Fax: 901-205-2534
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Orpheum Theater
Memphis TN
~0.24 miles from Memphis city center
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The Orpheum Theatre, located on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, was built in 1928 and is one of the few remaining "movie palaces" of the 1920s. The theatre presents a variety of events from Broadway shows and concerts to films. A $4.7 million dollar renovation in the 1980s included refurbishing of ornamental plasterwork, crystal chandeliers and original furnishings plus remodeling of backstage and technical areas. It seats 2,500.
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
W.C. Handy Memphis Home and Museum
Memphis TN
~0.34 miles from Memphis city center
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Address: 352 Beale St., at 4th St., Beale Street Historic District, Memphis, TN
Phone: 901/527-3427; 901/522-1556
Category: Museums/Galleries, Houses/Mansions
Location: Beale Street Historic District
The W. C. Handy Memphis Home and Museum is a simple house tucked behind Beale Street's row of Blues clubs that memorializes the "Father of the Blues" at the site where he compose such classics as "Beale Street Blues" and "Memphis Blues." A variety of memorabilia is on display.
Cost: $2 Open: Tues.-Sat.
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Fire Museum of Memphis
Memphis TN
~0.37 miles from Memphis city center
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The Fire Museum of Memphis has a terrific spaces that will accommodate from 20 to 250 guests for your special event. Perfect for company business meetings and parties. Rental spaces include the outside, beautiful courtyard, the first floor party room or the spacious second floor special events room. Caterers kitchen available. Treat your guests to a tour of the Fire Museum as part of your festivities. Host your wedding reception, or other special event at the Fire Museum. We provide tables, chairs, and a catering kitchen for your use. Please call our guest services manager at 901-320-5650 for additional information.
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Magevney House
Memphis TN
~0.39 miles from Memphis city center
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The Magevney House is a historic residence on 198 Adams Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. It is located in the Victorian Village of Memphis. It is one of the oldest residences remaining in Memphis.
In the 1830s, the Magevney House was built by Eugene Magevney as a clapboard cottage. Eugene Magevney was born in Ireland in 1798, immigrated to the United States in 1828 and settled in Memphis in 1833. He was a pioneer teacher and civic leader and died in 1875.
During the late 1830s and early 1840s, three important events in Memphis religious history took place in the cottage. In 1839, the first Catholic mass in Memphis was celebrated in the house. In 1840, the first Catholic marriage in Memphis was officiated at the residence. And in 1841, the first Catholic baptism was performed in Memphis at the Magevney homestead.
In 1941, the family of Eugene Magevney gave the property to the City of Memphis.
In 1973, the Magevney House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
In 2009, the house and museum are closed to the public. A sign installed at the museum informs visitors that the property is closed to the public temporarily, due to the budget situation of the City of Memphis and that the house will re-open upon the availability of funding. The Magevney House is part of the Pink Palace Family of Museums.
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Mississippi River Museum at Mud Island
Memphis TN
~0.45 miles from Memphis city center
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Traveler Description: History museum detailing the Mississippi River history, located in Mud Park.
Attraction type: Specialty museum, History museum
Address: 125 North Front Street Memphis, TN 38103
Tel: 800-507-6507, 901-576-7241
Fax: 901-576-6666
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Mud Island River Park
Memphis TN
~0.45 miles from Memphis city center
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At Mud Island,trace the twists and turns of the Mississippi River following the River Walk. Learn about the shipping of cotton on the river and the musical history made in cities along the river, from New Orleans Jazz to Memphis Blues and Elvis. See the Memphis Belle , a historic WWII airplane. The Mud Island Amphitheatre on the island hosts concerts in the summer. To get there, ride the monorail, featured in the Tom Cruise movie "The Firm."
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Civic Center Plaza
Memphis TN
~0.45 miles from Memphis city center
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Downtown Memphis (Neighborhood)
Millington TN
~0.64 miles from Memphis city center
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Hunt Phelan Home
Memphis TN
~0.64 miles from Memphis city center
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Built mostly by slave labor in 1828, the Hunt-Phelan Home displays a rich and elegant past. Several hundred slaves were taught English by members of the Freedmen's Bureau at an on-ite school house.
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
National Civil Rights Museum - Lorraine Motel
Millington TN
~0.65 miles from Memphis city center
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The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, was built around the former Lorraine Motel at 450 Mulberry Street, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
The Lorraine Motel remained open following King's assassination until it was foreclosed in 1982. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation purchased the property at auction in December of that year. In 1987 construction of the museum started, opening its doors to visitors on September 28, 1991. The exhibits of the museum tell the story of the struggle for African American civil rights from the arrival of the first Africans in the British colonies in 1619 to the assassination of King in 1968.
An expansion project in 2001 added the Young and Morrow Building to the museum, the latter being a former rooming house at 418 South Main Street from which the shots were fired that killed King. James Earl Ray was convicted of the assassination and sentenced to 99 years in prison. The exhibits in the rooming house relate the events of the assassination, the Poor People's Campaign, and the legacy of the civil rights movement. It includes a panel describing the murder of the Reverend James Reeb in Selma, Alabama.
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Memphis Cook Convention Center
255 N Main St Memphis TN
~0.68 miles from Memphis city center
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Downtown Memphis is alive with new growth and at the heart of it all is the Memphis Cook Convention Center and Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. The convention center, only 20 minutes from the Memphis International Airport, boasts the stately 28,000 s.f. Cannon Center Ballroom, a column free Main Exhibit Hall of more than 120,000 s.f. 31 meeting rooms and the impressive 2,100 seat Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. Add to all that a 35,000 s.f. special exhibit hall and parking for 750 cars.
The Memphis Cook Convention Center is an SMG-Managed Facility. SMG is the world's leading company in the private development and management of public assembly facilities, including stadiums, arenas, theaters and exhibition/convention centers. We operate these facilities under long-term contracts or leases and assume full responsibility for financial and operating management.
When planning your event, look to Memphis, Tennessee as your next destination! Memphis can offer you a truly unique blend of amazing food, interesting sites, and southern hospitality. The “Bluff City” still holds its title as the Home of the Blues, Birthplace of Rock & Roll and a center of culture and history.
The convention center is only 20 minutes from the Memphis International Airport. It consists of a 28,000 SqFt Cannon Center Ballroom, column free Main Exhibit Hall of more than 120,000 s.f., 31 meeting rooms and a 2,100 seat Cannon Center for Performing Arts. The convention center also has a 35,000 s.f. special exhibit hall and parking for 750 cars.
http://www.memphisconvention.com
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Cannon Center for the Performing Arts
255 N. Main Memphis TN
~0.68 miles from Memphis city center
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The multi-purpose, 2,100 seat Memphis Cannon Center facility hosts general sessions for conventions in the Memphis Cook Convention Center plus other events including ballet, opera, pop and jazz concerts, touring productions and children's theater. The Cannon Center is also the home of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
• 2,100 seats
• Cannon Center is connected to 1,000 covered parking spaces and within walking distance of 1,400 additional spaces
• Connected to over 300,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space, including a 28,000 square foot ballroom
• Downtown Center is located in the heart of a major metropolitan area with a population of over 1,000,000
• Seating and balcony are configured in a classic horseshoe plan
• Unobstructed views of the entire stage area from the orchestra, mezzanine, balcony and side boxes
• 2 loading bays - on Front Street
• 14 dressing rooms (four 1-2 persons; two musician changing rooms; four 4-6 person, four 10 person) - Six on the stage level and eight on the mezzanine level.
• 2 orchestra pits; each lift has four positions: stage level, audience seating level, orchestra pit level and chair wagon storage level. Upstage lift is approximately 15' deep a the center; downstage lift is approximately 10' deep.
• Lift speed: 5 feet/minute; lifting capacity: 50 lb/square foot, plus dead load of lift. Sustaining capacity: equal to stage floor.
http://www.thecannoncenter.com
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Mallory Neely House
Memphis TN
~0.79 miles from Memphis city center
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The Mallory-Neely House is a historic residence on 652 Adams Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. It is located in the Victorian Village of Memphis.
Around 1852, the mansion was built in the Italian villa-style architecture. From 1852 until 1969, the mansion was home to the families of Isaac Kirtland, Benjamin Babb, James C. Neely, Daniel Grant and Barton Lee Mallory.
In the 1880s and 1890s, the house was extensively renovated. During the renovation, the original two and one half stories of the building were extended to three full stories and the tower of the building was enlarged. After the renovation, the house consisted of 25 rooms. The Neely family decorated the mansion in the Victorian style, with parquet flooring, ornamental plasterwork and ceiling stenceling.
In 1969, the last resident of the mansion, Daisy Neely-Mallory, died at age 98. According to her wish, the house was deeded to the Daughters, Sons, and Children of the American Revolution.
In 1972, the Victorian Village district of Memphis was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. And in 1973, the mansion was turned into a museum. The museum is operated by the City of Memphis and Museums Inc. since 1987 and part of the Pink Palace Family of Museums.
In 2009, the Mallory-Neely House is closed to the public. A sign installed at the museum informs visitors that the property is closed to the public temporarily, due to the budget situation of the City of Memphis and that the house will re-open upon the availability of funding.
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Woodruff Fontaine House
Memphis TN
~0.81 miles from Memphis city center
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This 1870s house is part of Victorian Village , where the few homes in Memphis dating from the 1800s have been preserved and restored. In addition to the furniture and decorative arts displayed inside, the house also has an exhibit of clothing from the Victorian era. Look at the cinched waists and layers of velvet and wonder how the Victorian ladies survived the hot Memphis summers. Tours are held every half hour.
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Sun Studio
Memphis TN
~0.84 miles from Memphis city center
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Sun Studio was opened by rock pioneer Sam Phillips at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 3, 1950. It was originally called Memphis Recording Service, sharing the same building with the Sun Records label business. Reputedly the first rock-and-roll single, Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats' "Rocket 88" was recorded there in 1951 with song composer Ike Turner on keyboards, leading the studio to claim status as the birthplace of rock & roll. Blues and R&B artists like Howlin' Wolf, Junior Parker, Little Milton, B.B. King, James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, and Rosco Gordon recorded there in the early 1950s.
Rock-and-roll, country music, and rockabilly artists, including unknowns recording demos and others like Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Charlie Feathers, Ray Harris, Warren Smith, Charlie Rich, and Jerry Lee Lewis, signed to the Sun Records label recorded there throughout the latter 1950s until the studio outgrew its Union Avenue location. Sam Phillips opened the larger Sam C. Phillips Recording Studio, better known as Phillips Recording, in 1959 to take the place of the older facility. Since Sam had invested in the Holiday Inn Hotel chain earlier, he also recorded artist starting in 1963 on the label Holiday Inn Records for Kemmons Wilson.
In 1969, Sam Phillips sold the label to Shelby Singleton, and there was no recording-related or label-related activity again in the building until the September 1985 Class of '55 recording sessions with Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, produced by Chips Moman.
In 1957, Bill Justis recorded his Grammy Hall of Fame song "Raunchy" for Sam Phillips and worked as a musical director at Sun Records.
In 1987, the original building housing the Sun Records label and Memphis Recording Service was reopened as "Sun Studio", a recording business and tourist attraction that has attracted many notable artists including U2, who recorded tracks for Rattle and Hum there on newer equipment Sun had purchased from producer Terry Manning.
In May 2009, Canadian blues artist JW-Jones recorded with blues legend Hubert Sumlin, Larry Taylor and Richard Innes for his 2010 release at the studio. In July 2009, John Mellencamp recorded nine songs for his album No Better than This at the studio. Wes Paul and his group The Wes Paul Band are recording their album at Sun this forthcoming May.
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Pyramid Arena
Memphis TN
~1.03 miles from Memphis city center
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The Pyramid Arena is a 20,142-seat arena located in downtown Memphis at the banks of the Mississippi River. The facility was built in 1991 and was originally owned and operated jointly by the city of Memphis and Shelby County. Its unique structure plays on the city's namesake in Egypt, known for its ancient pyramids. It is 321 feet (98m, about 32 stories) tall and has base sides of 591 ft; it is the sixth largest pyramid in the world behind the Great Pyramid of Giza (456 ft), Khafre's Pyramid (448 ft), Luxor Hotel (348 ft), the Red Pyramid (341 ft) and the Bent Pyramid (332 ft), both in Dahshur. It is also slightly (about 16 feet) taller than the Statue of Liberty. A statue of Ramesses the Great stands in front of the pyramid.
The Pyramid Arena has not been regularly used as a sports venue since 2004. In April 2009, the Shelby County Commission voted to sell the county's 50 percent share of the building to the city of Memphis.
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Slave Haven Burkle Estate Museum
Memphis TN
~1.57 miles from Memphis city center
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The Burkle Estate is a historic home at 826 North Second Street in Memphis, Tennessee. It is also known as the Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum or the Slavehaven/Burkle Estate. The house was constructed in 1849 by a German immigrant by the name of Jacob Burkle and is believed to have served as a way station on the Underground Railroad for runaway slaves.
Publicly, Mr. Burkle was a livestock trader and a baker. However, privately he was a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Many believe his home was the last stop in a series of Memphis homes connected by underground tunnels. The house included a small cellar entered through a trap door where slaves apparently waited to escape. The cellar connected to a tunnel leading to the Mississippi River. Slaves could then get on boats to take them upriver to other way stations in the free states north of the Ohio River.
Although the role of the home as a part of the underground railroad is still subject to debate, the house opened as a museum in 1997 and tours of the one-story, white clapboard house are available. The house is decorated with 19th-century furnishings and artifacts and served as part of the overall civil rights heritage of Memphis.
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Business District (Neighborhood)
Millington TN
~2.20 miles from Memphis city center
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Stax Museum of American Soul Music
Memphis TN
~2.22 miles from Memphis city center
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The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is a museum located in Memphis, Tennessee, at 926 McLemore Avenue, the former location of Stax Records. It is operated by Soulsville USA, which also operates the adjacent Stax Music Academy.
After Stax Records went bankrupt and closed in 1976, the Stax studio was sold by the Union Planters Bank to Southside Church of God in Christ, located nearby on McLemore Avenue. Except for a brief time when it was used as a soup kitchen, it was allowed to deteriorate so it was torn down in 1989. The neighborhood had deteriorated badly and by 1998, a group of concerned people and anonymous philanthropists spearheaded a nonprofit revitalization effort for the area which was dubbed Soulsville after the slogan "Soulsville U.S.A." which Stax called its studio on its former theater marquee as a counterpoint to Motown Records' Hitsville U.S.A.
Construction began on the Stax Museum and adjacent Stax Music Academy on April 2001 and the museum opened in May 2003. The Stax Museum is a replica of the Stax recording studio, the former Capitol Theatre, down to the sloping floor of studio A. It is a 17,000 square feet (1,600 m2) museum with more than 2,000 videos, films, photographs, original instruments used to record Stax hits, stage costumes, interactive exhibits, and other items of memorabilia. Some of the standout exhibits include an authentic 101-year-old Mississippi Delta church to help show the gospel roots of soul music; the Soul Train dance floor, Isaac Hayes' restored 1972 gold-trimmed, peacock-blue Cadillac El Dorado; and a changing gallery where special exhibits change five times each year.
Because the Stax Museum is one of only a handful of museums in the world dedicated to soul music (the Motown Museum in Detroit is another), it not only celebrates the legacy of Stax Records and its artists such as Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, the Staple Singers, Johnnie Taylor, Albert King, Booker T. & the MGs, Rufus and Carla Thomas and others, but also features other soul music labels such as Motown, Hi Records, Atlantic Records, and Muscle Shoals, and visitors are treated to vintage video footage of non-Stax artists such as Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Ann Peebles, The Jackson Five, Patti LaBelle, Parliament-Funkadelic, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Ike & Tina Turner, and others.
The Stax Music Academy is a state-of-the-art facility where primarily at-risk youth are mentored through music education and unique performance opportunities they would otherwise likely never experience. The building also houses The Soulsville Charter School, an academically rigorous, musically rich school where students study math, language arts, science, social studies, and orchestra. Their Soulsville Symphony Orchestra has played for the likes of Stevie Wonder, John Legend, and Isaac Hayes.
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Autozone Park
200 Union Ave Memphis TN
~2.97 miles from Memphis city center
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Hard Rock Cafe
315 Beale St Memphis TN
~3.09 miles from Memphis city center
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Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of Theme Restaurants founded in 1971 by Americans Peter Morton & Isaac Tigrett. The first location opened near Hyde Park Corner in London, England. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock 'n' roll ephemera, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain. In 2006, Hard Rock was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Currently, there are 140 Hard Rock locations in over 40 countries.
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
FedEx Forum - Memphis Grizzlies
191 Beale Street Memphis TN
~3.09 miles from Memphis city center
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FedExForum is an arena located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. It is the home of the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA and the National Collegiate Athletic Association men's basketball program of the University of Memphis (the Tigers), both of whom previously played home games at the Pyramid Arena. The arena officially opened in September 2004 after much debate and also an Alberta clipper wind storm in July 22, 2003, that nearly brought down the cranes that were building it near the famed Beale Street. It was built at a cost of $250 million and is owned by the City of Memphis; naming rights were purchased by one of Memphis' most well-known business, FedEx, for $92 million. FedExForum was financed using $250 million of public bonds, which were issued by the Memphis Public Building Authority (PBA). The venue also has the capability of hosting ice hockey games, concerts, and family shows.
http://www.fedexforum.com
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Beale Street
Beale Street Memphis TN
~3.09 miles from Memphis city center
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Beale Street has been playing the blues for more than half a century. Named after an unknown military hero in 1841, it acted as General Ulysses S. Grant’s headquarters during the Civil War. But, Beale Street’s heyday was in the 1920’s, when the area took on a carnival atmosphere and gambling, drinking, prostitution, murder and voodoo thrived alongside the booming nightclubs, theaters, restaurants, stores, pawnshops and hot music. One club, The Monarch, was known as The Castle of Missing Men due to the fact that its gunshot victims and dead gamblers could be easily disposed of at the undertaker’s place that shared their back alley. In the early evenings, boxback suits and Stetson hats mingled with overalls. Young ladies began to sashay around and inside the bars, gamblers waited for an easy mark from the country to come strolling in, bug-eyed at the ways of the big city. If the mark escaped from the dice or the cards, maybe the rube would fall victim to Little Ora, who was always ready to prove her reputation as the best pickpocket between New Orleans and St. Louis. Or maybe he’d just stop over at PeeWee’s and visit with the musicians, or play a little pool, or secure the voodoo protection of Mary the Wonder.
By mid-evening, the street would be packed and a one-block walk could take forever, especially if he had to detour around the medicine show set up in the little hole in the wall, or if he stopped and listened to the wandering bluesman playing for pennies and nickels.
There was the sight of Machine Gun Kelly peddling bottled whiskey from a clothes basket back before he moved into the ranks of big-time crime.
There were numerous gamblers setting a box next to the card table and sliding a share of the take into it for the church down the street.
There were big vaudeville shows at the Palace and the Daisy, hot snoot sandwiches at the corner café jug bands playing down at the park and one block over on Gayoso there was a red-light district to rival New Orleans’ Storyville.
Good or bad – Beale Street created some memories.
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Memphis TN
~3.18 miles from Memphis city center
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Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is an art museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The Brooks Museum, which was founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest art museum in the state of Tennessee. The museum is a privately funded nonprofit institution located in Overton Park in Midtown Memphis.
The original Beaux-Arts building, a registered U.S. National Landmark designed by James Gamble Rogers in 1913, was donated by Bessie Vance Brooks in memory of her husband, Samuel Hamilton Brooks. The cylindrical extension, opened in 1955, was designed by Memphis architect Everett Woods. The Brooks’ facilities also include the Brooks Museum Store, the Brushmark Restaurant, the Holly Court garden, and a grand terrace that overlooks the greens and trees of Overton Park.
The facility consists of 29 galleries, art classrooms, a print study room with over 4,500 works of art on paper, a research library with over 5,000 volumes, and an auditorium. The collection has over seven thousand works of art, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and examples of the decorative arts. Of particular note are the Samuel H. Kress Collection of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, the Hugo N. Dixon Collection of Impressionist paintings, the Levy Collection of American prints, the Goodman Book Collection, and the Goodheart Collection of Carl Gutherz paintings, drawings, and archival material.
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