Author: W Wood
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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 for Eddie’s Band. This would not impact their relationship in the future since after this…
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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, on a trip to Mexico as a surprise after graduating high school. This trip would…
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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 of many things, including the pub classic Billiards. Also known as “Pool” by us common…
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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 either side of the window where one ordered cones of custard. Many years later (1950’s)…
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