Arrival at ALB
N454UW waiting to go to CLT
The Albany airport is on the sit of the oringanl Shaker farm:
Yeah, it's pretty empty:
on board:
Charlotte Motor Speedway:
Downtown:
The best place in CLT is at the end of "D":
soon, it was time to goto Memphis
Terminal E - home of the little jets:
Just slightly cramped
spotters area at CLT:
Yep, This is Memphis:
Turnaround in Castleton:
Patina:
Under the B&A:
Is that a medium?
and the USS Slater. It started to rain, so I headed home:
The Cotton Museum is at the Old Memphis Cotton Echange. Some Nice murals:
The Orignal Big Boards:
Delta Airlines started as Delta Crop Dusters in Monore, LA:
We went to the Metal Museum, but mom did not want to get out. Did see old man river:
I did get a souivenr (in cotton of course):
Lunch was at leonard's (eat where Elvis ate:)
not bad
I took Mom out the Pink Palace today. It's Memphis' History museum. another place I haven't been in 30 years.
It was built by Clarence Saunders, who invented the Modern Grocery store by founding Piggly Wiggly in the 20's. He started to build a massive mansion in the 20's, but lost control of the Piggly Wiggly company during the Great Depression. He made a deal with the City of Memphis that he would give them the house, if they would forgive his property taxes.
Yes, it's Pink:
and inside, there's a Piggly Wiggly:
, complete with 8 cent cans of campbell's soup.
Mom checks out the Drug store:
A bit more like Memphis' better known Mansion:
we had Pizza for lunch, and then went out to Shelby Farm before looping by Uncle David's Real Estate office in Bartlett (still there!)
They were plenty of folks there.
The current sun studios is actually two buildings, The studios, and Next door, where there was a diner. The diner did double as the offices, as this is where Elvis signed his first recording contract. Speaking of which, here is the actual lathe used at the time:
It's upstairs of the diner, in what was an old rooming house. We went down, and I picked up mother (stairs were too steep), and we went in the studio the way Elvis did: The front door. You don't get to do that with the normal tour
The studios:
BTW, the photos are from my phone. They don't allow flash photography, and with the Cell coverage I get here at the Parkview, it's a lot easier to get them uploaded.
Afternoon was spent shoe shopping.
I'll leave you with a promo:
