W. C. Handy statue, Handy Park in Memphis

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. [includeme...

Memphis: Beale St. near A. Schwab’s

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. [includeme...

Beale St. at Second St., Memphis

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."[includeme...

Blue plates at the Blue Plate Cafe

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...

Amy at the Blue Plate Cafe

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

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. [includeme...

My feet in the 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

Fireworks at Cohorama Point

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

Little Europe folk waiters

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. [includeme...

American flag, large

American flag, large

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