#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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#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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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Handy Park
Memphis TN
~0.23 miles from Memphis city center
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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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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Orpheum Theater
Memphis TN
~0.24 miles from Memphis city center
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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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#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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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Magevney House
Memphis TN
~0.39 miles from Memphis city center
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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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#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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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Downtown Memphis (Neighborhood)
Millington TN
~0.64 miles from Memphis city center
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Hunt Phelan Home
Memphis TN
~0.64 miles from Memphis city center
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#15 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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#16 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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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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#17 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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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Mallory Neely House
Memphis TN
~0.79 miles from Memphis city center
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Woodruff Fontaine House
Memphis TN
~0.81 miles from Memphis city center
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Sun Studio
Memphis TN
~0.84 miles from Memphis city center
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Pyramid Arena
Memphis TN
~1.03 miles from Memphis city center
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#22 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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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Business District (Neighborhood)
Millington TN
~2.20 miles from Memphis city center
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#24 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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#25 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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#26 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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#27 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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http://www.fedexforum.com
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#28 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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#29 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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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Memphis
Memphis Zoo
Memphis TN
~3.21 miles from Memphis city center
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