I CAN HEAR THE WHINE OF STREET CARS TWO BLOCKS AWAY [not buses] AS I LIE IN MY BED AT NIGHT IN AUGUST WITH ALL THE WINDOWS OPEN AND THE ATTIC FAN PULLING A BREEZE ACROSS MY BED....HAVING TO PULL THE WINDOW SHUT BEFORE MORNING BECAUSE THE BREEZE TURNS COOL. I MISS IT !!!!!!!!!!!

Had a bus pass that allowed you on any bus for a nickle (one way). On the other hand, you could buy cigarettes 3 for a nickle at the B & S Sundry store in North Memphis. Bought the smokes, hitchiked to school.

Memphis character in the 50's , sold newspapers, had a stub of a cigar in his mouth, and carried a serious club. He was called "MONK".
What was his real name.

Answer:
Tony Casada

Hart's bakery was on the corner of Summer & Mendenhall. They had a little window on the front of the building and you could buy a loaf of hot bread right out of the oven. We would get a stick of butter and buy a loaf of hot Hart's bread (unsliced) and eat it in the car. MMMMMMMMMMMM GOOD!!

Does anyone out there remember the old Weona(Spelling?) Grocery owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ross back in the 50's? I was a little kid under eight years old back then. We left Memphis after my mother died when I was eight. I was born in '52. I can see on Google that the old Krosstown Kleaners is still there. Amazing! They ruined our beautiful old house at 1526 Court. The door used to be in the middle of the front porch. That street used to seem majestic and now it seems worn-out with the wrong kinds of fences and plants in the yards and one ugly apt. building stuck in the middle of everything. Memphis in the Fifties was really cool and had lots of character. Does anyone remember the old curb market that had great bread pudding or rice pudding, some kind of pudding!

On north Main street, north side, just before Popular Avenue, in the 1950's, was a small family restaurant owned by Johnny Rice, called Johnny's Cafe (I believe). Sure would like to know what became of the restaurant and of the owner and his family. Please email me with any information.