A place for Mom

I was a bit sick, so I decided to hit some senior housing: A little too expensive for mom And since my car is now on its third recall, guess what I did: But no decision here either, reminds of Sir John Franklin. A lot of folk have given him grief about going around the "wrong" side of the island, as compared to Roald Amundsen, who went the other way and made to Alaska. There's just one small catch: The south channel has a 3 foot draft, too shallow for Capt. Franklin's ships. So until next week (unless a polar bear devours me) keep the rubber side down.

That cotton-pickin musuem

My Mother didn't want to go here, but I am presisent: 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

Mother gets a Pink Palace

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!)

Recording history

My mother had a lost a bolt from her walker, so I went out to get one. I found a a local Hardware store on Madison, explained my issue, and 74 cents later, we were back on the road. I took her with me to Sun studios: 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:

wheels of time

I took Mother to see the Peabody ducks:

From 2012-04-16

Her first time in about 60 years. In case you're wondering, The Peabody is THE Hotel in Memphis. They have a cadre of trained ducks that swim in the fountain from 11 to 5 every day: Not my best work, I Know. Mother Talked to to duckmaster and reminesced. about the 40's. Anyway, Mother's walker was getting squeaky, and she was slow with it: after much convinicing by the folks at the Parkview and me, she agreed to let me but here one a four wheeled one, wow, what a difference: we went down and sat with the chorchet group: Before I had lunch and headed out to the Airport: Yes, this is a Delta Hub: The big white building is the Parkview: It was overcast until we got to Newark: and finally, Back at Albany: To wind up, we never when we're going to leave this life. I was thinking about the "Million Dollar Quartet" and Sun Record's Stable of Stars. All of them are gone now. Except for one, who back fifty years, every one would probably would have predicted he would have been the first in a grave: And he's still at: