Mid-South Music

Eddie Bond is a well-known Memphis rockabilly having toured with many big names and releasing multiple albums with Mercury Records. However, it is more likely you know him for rejecting a then 18-year-old Elvis Presley after he had tried out…

Pancho’s

Although they began over the bridge, Pancho’s will always be a classic Memphis staple. The restaurant originally opened in 1956 in West Memphis, Arkansas. The idea for the restaurant began after Morris Berger had taken his son, Louis Jack Berger,…

Pool Sharks

The character Minnesota Fats was based on a real player named Rudolph Walter Wanderone JR. It is speculated since he lived in Nashville he may have visited Peoples Pool Hall on more than one occasion. Memphis has a rich history…

Memphis Polar Bears

“In the mid-1930’s my uncle, Bob Ewing, installed the first frozen custard machine in Memphis across from the Fairgrounds. It was a stand-alone building shaped like an ice-igloo and was called The FROZEN CUSTARD. There were two snowball-tossing bears on…