Memphis, Tennessee: The Main Street Trolley in front of Court Square

Main Street Trolley at Court Square, Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee — The Main Street Trolley in front of Court Square. In the evening sunlight at upper right is the Exchange Building. Filed under:Memphis [includeme...

Memphis, Tennessee: Lowenstein Building and Lincoln American Tower before Court Square Center renovation

Memphis: Court Square Center (before)

Memphis, Tennessee — The Lowenstein Building (left) and the Lincoln American Tower before an extensive reconstruction. Filed under:Memphis [includeme...

Memphis restaurant: Dining room at the Blue Shoe Bar & Grill, specializing in Southern cuisine

Memphis restaurant: Blue Shoe Bar & Grill

Memphis, Tennessee — Tables in the dining room at the Memphis Marriott East's Blue Shoe Bar & Grill, which specializes in Southern cuisine. Filed under:Memphis restaurants [includeme...

Memphis, Tennessee: Kudzu vines growing on President's Island

Memphis: President’s Island kudzu

Memphis, Tennessee — Kudzu, an invasive species known as "the vine that ate the South," growing on President's Island. Filed under:Memphis plants [includeme...

Court Square in Memphis, Tennessee from the Sleep Inn hotel

Memphis: Court Square from the Sleep Inn

Memphis, Tennessee — Court Square and its Main Street Trolley station, seen from the Sleep Inn at Court Square hotel. Filed under:Memphis [includeme...

Main St Trolley passengers in Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis: Main Street Trolley passengers

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Self portrait: At work on an Apple computer workstation in my home office, surrounded by books. Filed under:Memphis [includeme...

W.C. Handy statue by sculptor Leone Tommasi stands in Memphis, Tennessee's Handy Park

W. C. Handy statue, Handy Park in Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee — Life-size bronze statue by sculptor Leone Tommasi honoring W. C. Handy stands facing Beale Street, just inside the entrance to Handy Park. Filed under:Memphis music sculpture [includeme...

Handy Park in Memphis, Tennessee with its W.C. Handy statue

Handy Park in Memphis: July 4 crowd

Memphis, Tennessee-- A crowd awaits Independence Day festivities at Handy Park near the W.C. Handy statue by Leone Tommasi. Filed under:Memphis music sculpture [includeme...

Beale St. in Memphis, Tennessee near A. Schwab's dry goods store

Memphis: Beale St. near A. Schwab’s

Memphis, Tennessee — Beale Street, just south of A. Schwab's dry goods store, the only remaining original business on Beale. Across Beale Street at far left is King's Palace Cafe. Filed under:Memphis [includeme...

Beale St and 2nd St in Memphis, Tennessee

Beale St. at Second St., Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee — Beale Street at Second ahead of the July 4th celebration. The barricade sign reads, "No vehicles, no bicycles, no skates, no skateboards, no glass containers, no animals/reptiles." Filed under:Memphis...

Outside Al Green's church, the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis, Tennessee

Al Green’s church: Posing outside Full Gospel Tabernacle

Memphis, Tennessee — Posing with a couple we met during Sunday services at Full Gospel Tabernacle, Rev. Al Green's church at 787 Hale Road. Pastor Green was out of town when we visited. Filed under:Memphis music religion...

Amy outside Al Green's church, the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis, Tennessee

Al Green’s church: Amy outside Full Gospel Tabernacle

Memphis, Tennessee — Amy with a couple of churchgoers we met at Full Gospel Tabernacle, Rev. Al Green's church at 787 Hale Road. Pastor Green was not present this particular Sunday. Filed under:Memphis music religion...

Memphis, Tennessee — Sign outside the famous dance club Raiford's Hollywood Disco: ‘No discrimination. No saggy pants. Ladies free.’

Raiford’s in Memphis: No saggy pants

Memphis, Tennessee — Sign outside the famous dance club Raiford's Hollywood Disco: "No discrimination. No saggy pants. Ladies free." Filed under:Memphis signs [includeme...

Plates on the wall at the Blue Plate Cafe restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee

Blue plates at the Blue Plate Cafe

During the 1950s, dinnerware manufactured by the Royal China Company of Sebring, Ohio, and decorated with transfer printed scenes taken from prints by Currier & Ives was offered as promotional premiums by A&P grocery stores....

Amy Czerniec at the Blue Plate Cafe in Memphis, Tennessee

Amy at the Blue Plate Cafe

Memphis, Tennessee — We wanted to escape our Kenosha apartment for the Fourth of July holiday and decided to drive to "Memphis in the meantime." Breakfast on the 4th was here at the cheerful Blue Plate Cafe, where we enjoyed...

The Maidenform women at Prime Outlets mall, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin

The Maidenform Women

Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin — Amy, Amy, Lynn, and Melissa — the key four in the Maidenform store (a.k.a. "The Panty Ranch") at the Prime Outlets shopping center. Filed under:shopping women ...

Mark Czerniec's feet in a bathtub

My feet in the bathtub

Kenosha, Wisconsin — We had a deep, old clawfoot bathtub in that apartment on 5th Avenue. In lucid dreaming, there’s an exercise that involves finding your feet or your hands as a first step in establishing your identity and...

Fireworks at Cohorama Point in Kenosha, Wisconsin on June 24, 1999

Fireworks at Cohorama Point

Kenosha, Wisconsin — Self portrait: At work on an Apple computer workstation in my home office, surrounded by books. Filed under:Kenosha [includeme...

Signage depicting a waiter and waitress in traditional dress at Little Europe Schnitzel House restaurant, Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Little Europe folk waiters

Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Signage depicting a waiter and waitress in traditional dress at the Little Europe Schnitzel House Bohemian restaurant along I-94's East Frontage Road. Filed under:Kenosha restaurants [includeme...

Large American flag displayed on a house in Kenosha, Wisconsin

American flag, large

Kenosha, Wisconsin — A large United States flag is displayed on the back of a house. Filed under:Kenosha USA