Site Index

* Al's Golfdom & Golfhaven
* James Hyter
* Baptist Hospital
* Celebration Station
* Chicago Park School
* Chisca Hotel
* Claridge Hotel
* The Cossitt Library
* Cordova Ammunition Plant
* Cybill Shepherd Childhood Home
* EH Crump Stadium
* Ellis Auditorium
* Fairgrounds
* Goodwyn Institute Building
* George 'Machine Gun' Kelly
* Happy Hal's Fun House
* Hotel King Cotton
* Imperial Lanes
* Jolly Giant Slide
* Kress Building
* Lichterman Nature Center
* Malibu Grand Prix
* MagicLand
* Manassas High School
* Giant Memphis Shoe
* Mississippi River Bridges
* Mud Island
* Orpheum Theatre
* Russwood Park
* Shelby County Bldg
* West Tennessee State Normal School
* Sterick Building
* Sinking of the Sultana
* Sears Crosstown
* Tennessee Brewery
* Tom Lee
* Tom Lee Park
* Union Station
* Fred Gangs Restaurant
* Imperial Bowling Lanes
* Mud Island PT Boat
* Memphis Belle
* Main Street Mall
* MerryMobile
* Number 1 Beale
* Admiral Benbow
* Maywood
* Adventure River
* Old Melrose School
* Millington Naval Air Station?
* Prince Mongo
* The Public Eye
* Enchanted Forest
* Lincoln American Tower
* William R Moore

A Closer Look

You might be surprised how much has changed: Downtown Memphis Timeline

This Memphis landmark is not gone, but has been quickly outgrown and superseded by newer, bigger, better arenas. The story of the Pyramid is interesting, twisted and tragic. In an ironic twist, it may become a retail establishment the likes of which Memphis hasn't seen since.....The Mall of Memphis.

* Pyramid

Two of the oldest and most enduring structures in downtown Memphis are stretched all the way to Arkansas....

* The Frisco & Harahan Bridges

This Memphis landmark is not what it once was. In days past it was a Customs House, then a Federal Courthouse. Later it became a Post Office, which most of us just assumed was the original purpose anyway. That would be a mistake.

* Customs House

This most famous Memphis landmark has been on the chopping block several times. It's closed again, now considered a "liability" to the city. It needs $500K in repairs and city leaders have no plan and no budget for it at all. It just a matter of time.....let it rot, soon be just a memory and then a shell of it's former self (no pun intended)...then it will start-"Let's tear it down!"

* Overton Park Shell

Whats next you ask? Why the Memphis Fairgrounds, of course! Who needs a FULLY paid for Coliseum - it needs a little work, but let's just DEMOLISH it and replace it wth.....GRASS.

* Mid-South Coliseum

Ok, this is a real stretch but us real old timers will remember SIVAD - Crap, it was scary to some of us!

* SIVAD

Just old Memphis - here and there, this and that...

* Old Memphis

Old Memphis Postcards......

* Old Memphis Postcards

Even older Memphis - way, way back......

* Older Memphis

If We Have A Lost Memphis, It Won't Be Complete Without The King (and not just any two-bit King either)

* Elvis

Another King, Martin Luther King is forever linked with Memphis as well. The civil rights leader was in town to help city sanitation workers strike for safer working conditions.

* Martin Luther King

To read more about the times and things that have changed since "the good ole days" check here:

* 70's Food Remembered

If you remember the things on this page, chances are you remember Gilligan too. But not like this (yes, this is totally non-related):

* Gilligan

To educate and coordinate individuals and groups to save, improve, reuse, and maintain architecturally and historically significant buildings, open spaces, streets, neighborhoods, parks, and cultural artifacts of Shelby County, Tennessee. Visit the Memphis Heritage Website check here:

* All About Lost Memphis

* Landmark and Legend

Landmark and Legend Memphis, Tennessee Here we note legends-in-their-own-time and landmarks as they transition into history — and now also a listing of threatened landmarks!