Beale Street Historic District
Memphis, TN 38103
Phone: (901) 526-0110
- Cross Street:
- S 3rd Street
Editorial Review for Beale Street Historic District – by Linda Romine and Michele McCole Moss
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.
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User Reviews for Beale Street Historic District
12/13/2002 Posted by juliebyrd
Beale Street has IT. It is the best thing about Memphis and entertainment.
Pros: fun, diverse, magickal
Cons: parking, prices on SOME things
12/05/2002 Posted by utlee
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!!!
Pros: Easy access, A walk is FREE !!, Theme related R & R
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