Showing posts with label Graceland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graceland. Show all posts

Friday, October 12, 2018

Tanger Outlet Blues Trail South Haven, MS

Tanger Outlets 
Documenting the Blues Miss US 71
Hubert Sumlin
Howlin'Wolf
Robert Johnson
Birth Place of America's Music
MISSISSIPPI 
Peavine Railroad
Albert King 
"One of The Best"
"our knowledgeable friend and Blues tour guide described the B.B. King Museum as one of the best museums she had ever been to, and I have to agree. Allow several hours for this visit and make a special trip to Indianola to go there. You won't be sorry. My three teenage sons learned a great deal. Fantastic displays, many of which were interactive."
-A visitor from Houston, Texas
400 Second Street Indianola, S www.bbkingmuseum.org
BB King Museum
"Brought Me to Tears"
"This was our last stop on our Delta Blues Pilgrimage. And we saved the best for last. A beautiful building and museum. A part of the museum is a cotton gin where BB King used to work. The exhibit progresses through his childhood up to the present day. The video of him speaking about his life brought me to tears. Worth the drive to Indianola."
-A Visitor from Mobile, Alabama
400 Second Street Indianola, S www.bbkingmuseum.org
BB King Museum
"So Much Fun for Every Age"
"This facility is nothing short of amazing. It's a haven for anyone who loves and appreciates the music of all genres. We didn't
t want to leave!"
-A Visitor from Tennessee
800 West Sunflower Road Cleveland, MS
GRAMMYMuseumMS.org
662-441-0100
Recording Academy
GRAMMY MUSEUM
MISSISSIPPI
"This Place is Amazing "
"It has a lot of interactive features where you would spend hours listening to music and learning about the awesome past and present GRAMMY winners."
-A Visitor from Colorado
800 West Sunflower Road Cleveland, MS
GRAMMYMuseumMS.org
662-441-0100
Recording Academy
GRAMMY MUSEUM
MISSISSIPPI
"A Wealth of History! "
"Plan on spending at least two hours looking at this museum. You will find pictures articles, instruments, clothing, and more about these talented musicians. It helps clear up all that was going on in that area and how it affected the music. Don't miss this place."
A Visitor from Daytona Beach, Florida
1 Blues Alley Clarksdale, MS
www.deltableebluesmuseum.org
DELTA BLUES
MUSEUM
Large Guitar 
Muddy Waters
Gateway to the Blues "Great exhibit"
"This place has guitars from all the blues greats, they even have Son House's resonator guitar on display. Eric Clapton's and BB King's guitars are on showcase as well Great exhibit, owned by Ceasar's of Las Vegas fame."
-A Victor Calexico, California
13625 HighwaY 61 North Tunica Resorts, MS
www.tunicatravel.com
Gateway to the
BLUES
Tunica, MS

Elvis Presley & WC Handy 
The Blues Trail
Birthplace of America's Music Mississippi 
Large Guitar 
Large Guitar 



Elvis in Tupelo, MS 
"A Must-see if you are in Memphis!"
"By far our best experience in Memphis. The house itself is just full of history and memories. A very emotional experience. You can almost feel the joy and happy memories that Elvis and his family had there."
-A Visitor from the Newcastle United Kingdom
3717 Elvis Presley Boulevard Memphis,  TN
www.graceland.com
Graceland
The home of Elvis Presley 
"Awesome to sit on his front porch."
"As a lifelong Elvis fan, this was a must-see on my visit I was not disappointed, the tiny house was amazing to see and it was great to get a photo taken on the swing outside with lots of interesting information and great insight into the early years of his life."
306 Elvis Presley Drive Tupelo, MS
www.elvispresleybirthplace.com
Elvis
BIRTHPLACE
Jessie Mae Hemphill
Graceland 

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

🚙2010 ~Tuesday, May 18, Memphis, Tennessee

Today my husband and I rode to Memphis, Tennessee.
We left between 8:30-9 A.M.  
Stopped in Corinth, MS used the restroom and filled it up with gas.
We arrived in Germantown after stopping to take pictures of a Girl on a horse, which is to honor Germantown Charity Horse Show’s 60th Anniversary 1948-2008, a picture of A Blue Star Marker to honor the Armed Forces, by Germantown Garden Club, and a marker Listing the Mayor's Grove of Germantown from 1920-1994. 
Jockey rider
We then drove to Joe’s Crab Shack located at 7990 Horizon Circle Blvd Memphis, Tennessee. 
I ordered a Caesar salad and Seafood Fun-Do (a creamy fondue filled with shrimp, crawfish, spinach, and saluted mushrooms, topped with bead crumbs, Served with garlic bread for dipping) and a glass of unsweetened tea.
My husband ordered a Caesar salad, and he ate some of the Seafood Fun-do, sweet tea, Crabs in a bucket, with corn on the cob, and new potatoes. It costs 22.00 a bucket. We spent $42.00.
Our Hostest at Joe’s Crab Shack is located at 7990 Horizon Circle Blvd Memphis, Tennessee. 

 Joe’s Crab Shack is located at 7990 Horizon Circle Blvd Memphis, Tennessee. 

Crab legs, corn, and potatoes come in a bucket! This will put a smile on his face over time!
We then took I-40 over to Front Street, we went into the Welcome Center, where we got information about Memphis.
In the Welcome Center, we saw a statue of Elvis Presley and a statue of BB King  
Elvis Presley 
BB King
Monorail to Mud Island along the Mississippi River
We walked to the Monorail and paid $4.00 each to ride to Mud Island. 
The Monorail was located under the bridge that went to the Mississippi River.
(The monorail has a big wheel called a bull wheel. It pulls one continuous loop cable which moves the passenger cabins in opposite directions on separate tracks at the same time.)
We took the escalators down three stories to the ground level. 
We saw an inlaid map of the Mississippi River. I took pictures of the maps and markers of the Mississippi River from beginning to end. 
The river walk is a portrait of Old Man River in Miniature that winds 1,000 miles of Lower Mississippi.
The model portrays important features of the river and its floodplain, with an inlaid street map of each community along its banks. 
The river model is a jigsaw puzzle, made up of 1,746 pre-cast concrete panels, each weighing 8 1/2 tons. An average of 1,200,000 gallons of water flow through the system.
Information panels along the river wall tell the stories of people, places, and events along the lower Mississippi River. 
I took pictures of most of the information panels along the riverbank crossing back and forth over the riverbed. I said, "I have crossed the Mississippi River more times than most people cross in a lifetime. "
We walked over to the flying flags. 
There were flags from Tennessee, Great Britain, Spain, France, North Carolina, and the Confederate States of America each representing their involvement with the Mississippi River. 
Mud Island

Visiting Mud Island

Mississippi River and Bridge
Instead of going back up the Mississippi River, we went around towards the Amphitheater and back up the stairs to the Museum and we talked to one of the curators of the museum. 
I told the curator about how much I liked the River Walk. How we had crossed the Mississippi & Ohio in Paducah, KY, and the bridge in Cape Girado, and how much more interesting it was seeing in all layouts. She told us that the city had asked Bass Pro Show to use the Pyramid building because the building was empty and needed use. She also said that the city was going to help them get moved. 
She was very excited about having a Bass Pro Shop close by. We said goodbye and left the museum. We took the three flights of escalator to the monorail and rode it over to Front Street. 

We exited the Mud Island Monorail Building and walked toward Adams Avenue. We walked down Adams Avenue and I took pictures of the Fire House Museum, the Memphis Police Department (old building), the Shelby County Courthouse, statues and Markers, Calvary Protestant Episcopal church and Marker, St Peter Catholic Church and marker, the Eugene Magevney museum and marker, 1862 Post Office marker, (hiding under a tree), Forrest’s Early Home Marker, Christopher Columbus, statue, markers and Park. 
My husband waited while I walked down Adams Avenue taking pictures, I then met back up with him and we walked down North Main Street taking pictures of old buildings, the train trolley and I stopped a couple of young men to make sure we were headed in the right direction. 
The Trolley
Firehouse Museum 

 Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church

Christopher Columbus Statue


Firehouse Museum 
I took pictures of the Kress Building, Orpheum Theater, Peabody Place, FedEx forum, Gibson’s Music Store & showcase, and the Elvis Presley Plaza and Statue. 

Elvis Presley Plaza and Statue. 
I took several pictures of signs about Beale Street. “There were two types of culture, on Beale Street. The sinners and the saved, you had professionals, and business people and then you had those who worked to have some nightlife fun.”

We walked into the Gibson Music store I took pictures of a white, red, and blue piano a 20-foot guitar, and another 15-foot hard rock blue guitar.
We walked across the street to the Civic Center called the FedEx Forum where my husband took a picture of me sitting on a soccer ball. They had the font of their build lined along the street with soccer balls, basketballs, tennis balls, and baseballs. 

On Beale Street, we saw a statue of WC Handy, and Musicians playing in the Pepsi Pavilion.
We saw the Hard Rock Café, Wet Willies, Ida B. Wells Marker, Brown Zero Blues Club, Pee Wee Saloon Marker, Coyote Ugly Saloon, New Daisy Theater, Nat D. Williams Marker, Rufus Thomas Jr. Marker, Silky Sullivan’s Irish, A Schwab building, Hooks brothers Marker, Kings Palace Café, Benjamin Franklin Booth marker, and scores of other stores, displays, and sites. 
We headed back up North Main Street and we saw Peabody Place, Piggy Wiggly Marker, courtyard Marriott, carriage rides, and many buildings and sites.
Hard Rock Cafe Guitar

Fed-X 

Coyote Ugly

Daisy

Beal Street 
We took the train trolley back to Adams Avenue and walked back to the Welcome Center took a few more pictures and then headed toward Presley Avenue. We drove toward the airport and got turned around. We saw a FedEx airplane taxied off.

We finally found Graceland, my husband let me out of the car and I took pictures of Elvis's marker, the wall around his house, and the gate. Across the street, I took pictures of Elvis's jet from the road. 
We headed back down I-40 by now the work traffic was out so we had quite a long drive back. We finally got off I-40 onto 385 East and traffic was still heavy, we headed toward 72 East, and when we got on 72 East we headed toward Corinth about an hour's drive. This is a long drive because there is nothing to see except the road, and trees not much of anything else.
Wall at Graceland

Elvis Aaron Presley
We finally arrived in Corinth (I said to my husband that I was like the kids and said are we there yet, I was getting hungry after that long walk and it was getting late) we stopped at Burger King, where I ordered a Whopper Junior, diet coke and a slice of Hershey chocolate pie, my husband ordered a whopper, fries, and a piece of the pie. We rode another hour arriving at Best Buy in Florence. My husband went to talk to the Geek Squad about his computer. 
When we arrive home I put on my pajamas, turn on the TV, and crawl into bed. I was asleep in no time. 

The next day I uploaded my pictures to the computer, added a few to FB, and a few to Flickr. Our Internet was too slow to upload all my pictures (580) so I will add them later. 






Wednesday, July 1, 2015

1982 Summer ~Family trip to Memphis, Tennessee

My husband drove our 1980 Camel Brown Chevrolet Malibu to Memphis Tennessee where we visited the Memphis Zoo, Graceland, and the Memphis Airport.

Description of what our children were wearing that day.
My oldest son was wearing a white pullover shirt, Levi jeans, and a Brave’s cap. My daughter was wearing brown jeans, a white tee shirt, and brown sandals. My middle son was wearing Levi's jeans, a yellow tee shirt, and blue tennis shoes. My youngest son was wearing a Dallas Cowboy jersey, Levi jeans, and white tennis shoes.

We visited the 76-acre Memphis Zoo, which has more than 3,500 animals and over 500 different species. 
In the Northwest Passage, we saw polar bears and sea lions.
In the Central Zone, we saw giant pandas, otters, blue magpies, hogs, and deer, cranes.
In the Primate Canyon, we saw the gorillas, orangutans, and siamang gibbons.
In the Cat country, we saw lions, cheetahs, leopards, meerkats, lynx, cougars, and tigers.
In the West Zone, we saw Komodo dragons, toucans, fresh and saltwater fish.
In the farm area, we saw ducks, a donkey, a mini pig, a Jersey cow, goats, a prairie dog, a rabbit, and a Caspian horse. 

In the herpetarium, we saw alligators, lizards, and frogs.
Memphis Zoo 
We visited Graceland's home in the late Elvis Presley.
Graceland is a large white-columned mansion that opened to the public in 1982.
In 1982, you could walk around the grounds and they did not charge you a fee.
We walked through the front music gates that were open to the public. The gates were designed for Elvis by Abe Saucer and custom-built by John Dillars, Jr. 

We walked around the Meditation Garden, which was constructed in 1964-1965 and was built for Elvis as a place for contemplation. 

The garden’s centerpiece is a circular twelve-foot fountain pool with five single jets of water and a larger one in the middle all lit by colored floodlights. 

Graceland
Graceland Pond  
The  Memphis Airport 
The kids standing outside at the Memphis Airport
Memphis Airport Postcard 
Our next stop was the Memphis Airport located at 2491 Winchester Road suite 113 Memphis, Tennessee 38116. 
We walked through the airport terminal to watch the different jets take off and land. 
We saw jets from Delta Airlines, Northwest Airlines, United Airlines, Continental Airlines, and American Airlines. We even got to walk inside and tour one of the planes.

On our trip home my head started to ache. I said to my husband that it sure would be nice to get a hotel room for the night but his idea was to drive home and sleep in his own bed.

I climbed into the backseat to lie down to relax my head and the boys moved up front.
The next thing I knew I heard sirens and a State Trooper pulled us over.
He said my husband was speeding, and he gave him a ticket.

How ironic he did not save a penny by speeding to get home. We could have spent the night in a very nice hotel for the cost of the speeding ticket. 
It would have been a great trip and to stay the night in a hotel room would have been relaxing. 

We had fun at the Memphis Zoo, the Memphis Airport, and Graceland.
Getting a headache and my husband getting a speeding ticket was not the way I would have liked this adventure to end. 
Some adventures are fun, some not fun, but what is life without some sort of adventure. 

What will my next adventure be?

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