Beale Street Historic District
(901) 526-0110
203 Beale St
(at S 3rd Street)
Memphis,
TN
38103
35.1396
-90.0518
Neighborhoods: Central, Downtown Core
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Overview
The city's blues legacy sings, swings and sways with your every step on this hallowed musical ground. Once the thriving center of the African-American community in Memphis, today's Beale Street is a tourist mecca for its nightclubs, restaurants and souvenir shops.
The Experience
Enjoy the best in live blues at B.B. King's Blues Club at Second and Beale streets. To catch stars like Bob Dylan, check out the New Daisy Theater, or pay your respects to the statue of Elvis Presley. The cost for shows and meals varies, but a stroll along the street is free. Have your picture taken with the statue of W.C. Handy (trumpet in hand), the turn-of-the-century bandleader who first penned "The Memphis Blues" back in the early 1900s.
User Reviews
juliebyrd
December 13, 2002
Beale Street has IT. It is the best thing about Memphis and entertainment.
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utlee
December 05, 2002
The "KING" shopped here. BLUESMEN sang here: MEMPHIS' BEALE STREET !! W.C. Handy, of St. Louis and Memphis Blues fame, penned both here. Beale St.-- where rural blacks who had known too much suffering came from the cotton fields of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas and called it "HOME". They sang the same Negro spirituals and Blues they had for generations in the cotton fields. Truly: MEMPHIS WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF ROCK AND ROLL!. Elvis described "Rock and Roll" as a combination "OF Gospel and Rhythm and Blues." Memphis was the natural place for this blend and therefore also the natural birthplace of ROCK and ROLL!. It was Sam Phillips (Sun Record Co. Owner) who often said how if he found a "white boy who could sing like a black boy" he'd make a fortune. ELVIS entered SUN STUDIOS one day in the early 50'S!! Ya'll KNOW the rest!!!
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TOOSAXY3
August 30, 2002
This is the best place to enjoy the outdoors, music, people and anything that comes your way. My family and I have been here soooo many times and will keep returning. So many different music events to hear and most of it free. Don't miss this area. Even just passing through town, everyone, and I mean, EVERYONE, should just stop here. You won't be sorry.
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