Memphis, Tennessee, Beale Street, October 1939/July 2009

Posted by Stephanie Fysh in Then and Now

Last summer, during a roadtrip from Toronto to New Orleans and back, I took my family on a Memphis mini-adventure, to shoot a Commons “then-and-now”. After the Gibson guitar factory tour, after the tornado warning had ended (it missed us), after a relaxing beer and snacks at a Beale Street bar, where we chatted with the manager about MGMT and the kids signed the wall, we walked up the street in the drizzle to find #318 – or at least where #318 must have been. There’s no jitterbugging here anymore.

Memphis, Tennessee, Beale Street, October 1939.
New York Public Library
Ugly Isle Tiki Bar
LĂș_ (Stephanie Fysh)
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