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WEEK 49 – Southaven Burlington Relocation: New Store, Set I
I'm home again for Christmas break, and glad to be back! (I'm also glad I didn't have to drive through all the wintry weather that hit the southern portion of the state yesterday!) After checking in with the Santa Barbara San Francisco Police Department last night, I'm here with Week 49 of uploads today. And since I didn't feel like writing these descriptions last night, they're once more coming to you fresh on this Saturday morning!
So where are we at? After a long wait... the new Southaven Burlington!
Burlington // 225 Goodman Road W, Southaven, MS 38671
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It would seem that Covid caused KAY to stay at Lycoming Mall longer that it had planned.
Pennsdale (Muncy), PA. February 2020.
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For once I'm at something of a loss for this one. It started life as one thing and by the end had morphed into something quite different. It started life as a simple piece of A4 paper but by the time it was done was this concoction of cardboard, glue, stencils, spraypaint, stamped lettering and something of a dark heart vibe.
The gentleman in the piece is clearly something of a vagabond as it would appear he has cleared out all the bank accounts and made a hasty international departure to an uncertain destination. And all he left behind was a short note. The no-good piece of dirt. If I ever get my hands on him...
Cheers
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The Abu Simbel temples are two massive rock temples at Abu Simbel (أبو سمبل in Arabic), a village in Nubia, southern Egypt, near the border with Sudan. They are situated on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about 230 km southwest of Aswan (about 300 km by road). The complex is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the "Nubian Monuments," which run from Abu Simbel downriver to Philae (near Aswan). The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the 13th century BC, as a lasting monument to himself and his queen Nefertari, to commemorate his victory at the Battle of Kadesh. Their huge external rock relief figures have become iconic.
The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968, on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir. The relocation of the temples was necessary to prevent them from being submerged during the creation of Lake Nasser, the massive artificial water reservoir formed after the building of the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River.
In 1908, Wolseley (1884 - 1967) moved to Newlyn, where he soon formed a close friendship with Laura and Harold Knight, who, a year earlier, had relocated from the Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes. He worked from Sandy-Cove Studio, and often painted in the nearby Lamorna Valley. While Wolseley only spent around five years in Newlyn, during this time he painted several of his best works including 'The Fairy Story', which is now at Penlee House.
His work in Newlyn was strongly influenced by both Harold and Laura Knight, and the latter’s particularly impressionistic technique and subtle tonalities are echoed here, in Wolseley's simple composition of a young girl in a lawn dress knitting before a window in a white-washed cottage interior, which is bathed in the diffused daylight of an early spring.
[Oil on canvas, 90.2 x 78 cm]
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Store #10467, 677 Cross Keys Rd; opened in 2009 as a relocation from 2099 N. Black Horse Pike in Williamstown, which opened as an Eckerd in 2000 (an existing Rite Aid is at 1881 N. Black Horse Pike, so this positioned the store further away). Closed in May 2022, with prescription files going to the older Rite Aid.
Originally Weston's; Former Kmart & Hobby Lobby. Staples relocated here to make room for a relocated Bath & Body Works and a new to market REI.
Ithaca, NY. June 2024.
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An early morning Friday message from "Marra Man" alerted me to the fact that the pioneer UK Class 66 No.66001 was heading up the morning's 6C17 Carlisle Yard - Workington and return 6C48 china clay tanks.
Not the first time it's fronted this train but the first since its repaint into DBS house colours.
With a 6C22 Carlisle - Sellafield flask train also pencilled in for early doors I decided to get out and about and see what was what as my shift didn't start until 10.20am.
My intention was to shoot both trains from atop the dyke which gives Siddick its name.
Unfortunately, having framed up a very nice shot with a backdrop of the Galloway hills, a herd of cows took umbrage at my appearance on the public footpath and I had to hastily leg it through the gate onto the foot-crossing to avoid a trampling.
This is not the shot I wanted.
Adrian pilots the loaded tanks to Workington yard for a run around before the short trip to the docks.
Remodel, Week 14
So without any further ado, let’s head inside and take stock of things! We’re beginning at the back left corner of the store, home to the new walk-in produce cooler. As of September 23rd, the date of this photo, it still had not been opened to the public, but I think it was undergoing a test run and the cold air was blasting in there. You can also see that the cases placed along its front have also been activated and are home to various juices and grapes. But most noticeable here is the fact that the rest of the club’s produce department has moved over here to join the new cooler! You’ll recall that it was previously placed in the actionway in front of the refrigerated and frozen units on the right side of the store. Now, it’s much more sensibly located over here.
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As fate would have it, I would relocate to the North Bay and end up living in Sebastopol...whodda thunk?
This house is now located on highway 29 near Guelph. It originally was built on Dublin street Guelph where the Gilbert MacIntyre and Son funeral home parking lot is. The owner had purchased the house and then dismantled it piece by piece, then reassembled it at it's new location.
We are having construction in our restroom. Pathways into our home for invertebrates have been opened. This little spider (less than 5mm) was next to my pillow. Before relocation to outdoors, I placed him on black acrylic and tried my new macro flash and diffuser on my R5. My technique was sloppy, but I got better.
AF Nikkor 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 (1995) 29 years "old"
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The first Great Victoria Street station in Belfast was built by the Ulster Railway in 1839. The facilities were expanded over the years until it became the main terminus of the Great Northern Railway in 1876. A century later, Northern Ireland Railways closed Great Victoria Street and transferred its traffic to the new Belfast Central station. The irony is, of course, that Great Victoria Street was more central than Belfast Central, and so in the 1990s it was decided to rebuild the former station. It couldn't be put back in exactly the same place though because the Great Northern Tower had been built on the original site, so the new Great Victoria Street station was moved a few yards further down the former trackbed and opened in 1995. Here is the station today, with some modern Class 3000 diesel multiple units standing at two of its four platforms.
I was set up where the Happy Couple are standing taking long exposures of the sky and sea. This is the 'Fee' I extracted for giving up that spot. Anyone who has browsed my photos will see that people and portraiture aren't my thing. Available for hire as a back up to the back up wedding photographer.
Cape Schanck.
FARRALINE PARK POLICE STATION – These photographs were taken in February 1975, a few weeks before the Inverness Constabulary relocated to their long-awaited new building at Old Perth Road.
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Control Room - well part of it. Beyond the sliding door was the Control Room proper, where 999 calls and radio traffic was handled. In this "back office" the Telephonist Cathy Munro answered all the "routine" calls coming in to the non-emergency telepnone number 36111. She had her work cut out because the three large machines on the right, one being operated by Control Room Assistant George Leith, were teleprinters ("telex machines") which made a fearful din when sending/receiving. They were rarely at peace as messages would come chattering in, printing loudly on to the rolls of paper while the machine also cut a paper tape to enable the message to be recalled/edited/re-retransmitted. Three machines working simultaneously was a nightmare and the whole office shook. The need for so many machines was because Inverness acted as "hub" for the police forces of the Highlands & Islands, retransmitting National messages to such locations as Dingwall and Fort William.
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The former Bell’s School building at Farraline Park was taken over (in part) by the Inverness Burgh Police as a ”temporary” police c.1960 when their own HQ at Castle Wynd opposite the Town Hall was scheduled for demolition as part of the Bridge Street redevelopment.
The plan was that in due course a new building would be found but this never happened. It is likely that the Scottish Office – whose budget plans for new police stations seemed to be extremely long-term – was not prepared to shell out considerable amounts of finance when a merger was being insisted upon.
For many years the powers-that had been desperate for Inverness Burgh Police and Inverness-shire Constabulary to merge. Quite why that should have any bearing on expenditure for the Burgh Force is unclear, as there was still a need for a Town Police Station, irrespective of what the force‘s situation was. Fact is that Inverness-shire were seeking to build a new HQ themselves, as The Castle (North Tower) was no longer capable of housing all the force’s requirements, and parking at the Castle then as now was extremely limited..
In due course authority was given to build on a green-field site at Drakies on the eastern edge of Inverness. The wheels of government grind slow however, especially when other parts of Scotland had more pressing needing needs for new police buildings, and the requirements of Inverness were prioritised lower. That building – at (Old) Perth Road - was not however ready for occupation until 1975, by which time the Burgh and County forces had been merged for seven years, and indeed were preparing to merge again with the other Highlands & Islands forces to form the Northern Constabulary.
The building had been designed as a County (combined Burgh Police Station and County HQ) Headquarters and by the time it was ready it was already undersized for purpose, let alone its additional requirements as base for the Regional Force HQ too. A measure of contingency planning had been allowed for, in that it was built with a flat roof, to allow for upwards expansion – but by the time finance finally became available again for such enlargement the foundations had settled (and the roof was problematic anyhow) to an extent that an additional storey was not possible. Hence a demotion and rebuild on the site.
So for some 15 years, the policing of Inverness Burgh (and from November 1968 the Inverness Rural area too) was controlled from the temporary police station at Farraline Park. Because it WAS a temporary location, the Burgh of Inverness (and latterly the Joint Burgh/County Police Committee) were reluctant to spend more than an absolute minimum on Farraline Park.
A Cell Block had been created as a “building within a building”, but that apart the classroom nature of the building remained, albeit some larger rooms were divided into several smaller offices. For once in police buildings, space was not an issue - but functionality certainly was. The Muster Room, where the Sergeant briefed his shift before starting duty, was right beside the kitchen, with only a glass partition between. The lingering “aroma” on coming in for briefing on early turn at 0530 for (0545) hours, when an officer on the night shift had cooked kippers for her shift a few hours earlier is something that I will never forget. (Briefings tended to take a while but, given the stale pong of cooked fish, Sergeant Sandy Allan ensured that one was particularly brief!).
These photographs were taken in February 1975, a few weeks before the Inverness force relocated to the new building at Old Perth Road. All operational and administrative functions (apart from a couple of small units which had to remain at the Castle as the new building was already too small!) were thus conducted from Old Perth Road. In time, more and more HQ purposes appeared, and the already-too-small HQ building was soon bursting at the seams, and as ever operational requirements bore the brunt.
This also meant that the Town Centre of Inverness was then without a police station, which was less than satisfactory. A few years later such absence was addressed by first renting a small shop (and later a larger one) in Inverness Victorian Market, and then latterly utilising parts of a building in Queensgate, until a new Operational Police Station was opened in 1999 at Burnett Road in Longman Industrial Estate, on the outskirts of the Town (now City) Centre – and only a few hundred yards (as the crow flies) from Farraline Park.
This separation of Operational from Administrative saw the extremely sensible solution of TWO new Police buildings created in Inverness. A new, larger, HQ building was erected at Old Perth Road behind the already-worn-out 1970s structure, which was then flattened to create a larger car park. The Operations Building at Burnett road – on the site of the former GPO Workshops and Offices – saw the call provision relocated there and substantially increased, along with a wealth of other facilities sadly lacking in the old HQ. Burnett Road thus saw all operational staff in respect of the Inverness area – plus its supporting administrative functions – all located finally under the same roof, sufficiently close to the Town Centre. The Old Perth Road building was therefore to exclusively take on the role of Force Headquarters appropriately separate from the local Operational side of “the job”. At merger into Police Service of Scotland on 1st April 2013, the HQ building became the Divisional HQ in respect of Highlands & Islands Division (effectively Northern Constabulary area, as was).
Elvis Aaron Presley[a] (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often referred to mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Dubbed the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, led him to both great success and initial controversy.
Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old. His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. Presley, on rhythm acoustic guitar, and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. In 1955, drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage him for more than two decades. Presley's first RCA Victor single, "Heartbreak Hotel", was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. Within a year, RCA would sell ten million Presley singles. With a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records, Presley became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll; though his performative style and promotion of the then-marginalized sound of African Americans[6] led to him being widely considered a threat to the moral well-being of the White American youth.
In November 1956, Presley made his film debut in Love Me Tender. Drafted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. He held few concerts, however, and guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood films and soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided. Some of his most famous films included Jailhouse Rock (1957), Blue Hawaii (1961), and Viva Las Vegas (1964). In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed television comeback special Elvis, which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley gave the first concert by a solo artist to be broadcast around the world, Aloha from Hawaii. Years of prescription drug abuse and unhealthy eating habits severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at his Graceland estate at the age of 42.
Having sold over 400 million records worldwide, Presley is recognized as the best-selling solo music artist of all time by Guinness World Records. He was commercially successful in many genres, including pop, country, rhythm & blues, adult contemporary, and gospel. Presley won three Grammy Awards, received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. He holds several records, including the most RIAA-certified gold and platinum albums, the most albums charted on the Billboard 200, the most number-one albums by a solo artist on the UK Albums Chart, and the most number-one singles by any act on the UK Singles Chart. In 2018, Presley was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Vernon Elvis (April 10, 1916 – June 26, 1979) and Gladys Love (née Smith; April 25, 1912 – August 14, 1958) Presley in a two-room shotgun house that his father built for the occasion. Elvis's identical twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley, was delivered 35 minutes before him, stillborn. Presley became close to both parents and formed an especially close bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of God church, where he found his initial musical inspiration.
A photo of Elvis's parents at the Historic Blue Moon Museum in Verona, Mississippi
Presley's father Vernon was of German, Scottish and English origins. He was a descendant of the Harrison family of Virginia through his ancestor Tunis Hood. Presley's mother Gladys was Scots-Irish with some French Norman ancestry. His mother and the rest of the family believed that her great-great-grandmother, Morning Dove White, was Cherokee. This belief was restated by Elvis's granddaughter Riley Keough in 2017. Elaine Dundy, in her biography, supports the belief.
Vernon moved from one odd job to the next, showing little ambition. The family often relied on help from neighbors and government food assistance. In 1938, they lost their home after Vernon was found guilty of altering a check written by his landowner and sometime-employer. He was jailed for eight months, while Gladys and Elvis moved in with relatives.
In September 1941, Presley entered first grade at East Tupelo Consolidated, where his teachers regarded him as "average". He was encouraged to enter a singing contest after impressing his schoolteacher with a rendition of Red Foley's country song "Old Shep" during morning prayers. The contest, held at the Mississippi–Alabama Fair and Dairy Show on October 3, 1945, was his first public performance. The ten-year-old Presley stood on a chair to reach the microphone and sang "Old Shep". He recalled placing fifth. A few months later, Presley received his first guitar for his birthday; he had hoped for something else—by different accounts, either a bicycle or a rifle. Over the following year, he received basic guitar lessons from two of his uncles and the new pastor at the family's church. Presley recalled, "I took the guitar, and I watched people, and I learned to play a little bit. But I would never sing in public. I was very shy about it."
In September 1946, Presley entered a new school, Milam, for sixth grade; he was regarded as a loner. The following year, he began bringing his guitar to school on a daily basis. He played and sang during lunchtime and was often teased as a "trashy" kid who played hillbilly music. By then, the family was living in a largely black neighborhood. Presley was a devotee of Mississippi Slim's show on the Tupelo radio station WELO. He was described as "crazy about music" by Slim's younger brother, who was one of Presley's classmates and often took him into the station. Slim supplemented Presley's guitar instruction by demonstrating chord techniques. When his protégé was 12 years old, Slim scheduled him for two on-air performances. Presley was overcome by stage fright the first time, but succeeded in performing the following week.
In November 1948, the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee. After residing for nearly a year in rooming houses, they were granted a two-bedroom apartment in the public housing complex known as the Lauderdale Courts. Enrolled at L. C. Humes High School, Presley received only a C in music in eighth grade. When his music teacher told him that he had no aptitude for singing, he brought in his guitar the next day and sang a recent hit, "Keep Them Cold Icy Fingers Off Me", to prove otherwise. A classmate later recalled that the teacher "agreed that Elvis was right when he said that she didn't appreciate his kind of singing". He was usually too shy to perform openly and was occasionally bullied by classmates who viewed him as a "mama's boy".
In 1950, he began practicing guitar regularly under the tutelage of Lee Denson, a neighbor two and a half years his senior. They and three other boys—including two future rockabilly pioneers, brothers Dorsey and Johnny Burnette—formed a loose musical collective that played frequently around the Courts. That September, he began working as an usher at Loew's State Theater. Other jobs followed at Precision Tool, Loew's again, and MARL Metal Products. Presley also helped Jewish neighbors, the Fruchters, by being their shabbos goy.
During his junior year, Presley began to stand out more among his classmates, largely because of his appearance: he grew his sideburns and styled his hair with rose oil and Vaseline. In his free time, he would head down to Beale Street, the heart of Memphis's thriving blues scene, and gaze longingly at the wild, flashy clothes in the windows of Lansky Brothers. By his senior year, he was wearing those clothes. Overcoming his reticence about performing outside the Lauderdale Courts, he competed in Humes' Annual "Minstrel" show in April 1953. Singing and playing guitar, he opened with "Till I Waltz Again with You", a recent hit for Teresa Brewer. Presley recalled that the performance did much for his reputation: "I wasn't popular in school ... I failed music—only thing I ever failed. And then they entered me in this talent show ... when I came onstage I heard people kind of rumbling and whispering and so forth, 'cause nobody knew I even sang. It was amazing how popular I became in school after that."
Presley, who received no formal music training and could not read music, studied and played by ear. He also frequented record stores that provided jukeboxes and listening booths to customers. He knew all of Hank Snow's songs, and he loved records by other country singers such as Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Ted Daffan, Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmie Davis, and Bob Wills. The Southern gospel singer Jake Hess, one of his favorite performers, was a significant influence on his ballad-singing style. He was a regular audience member at the monthly All-Night Singings downtown, where many of the white gospel groups that performed reflected the influence of African-American spiritual music. He adored the music of black gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Like some of his peers, he may have attended blues venues—of necessity, in the segregated South—only on nights designated for exclusively white audiences. He certainly listened to the regional radio stations, such as WDIA-AM, that played "race records": spirituals, blues, and the modern, backbeat-heavy sound of rhythm and blues. Many of his future recordings were inspired by local African-American musicians such as Arthur Crudup and Rufus Thomas. B.B. King recalled that he had known Presley before he was popular when they both used to frequent Beale Street. By the time he graduated from high school in June 1953, Presley had already singled out music as his future.
Graceland is a mansion on a 13.8-acre (5.6-hectare) estate in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, which was once owned by the rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. His daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, inherited Graceland after his death in 1977. Following Lisa Marie Presley's death in 2023, the mansion is to be inherited by her daughters. In addition to being the final resting place of Elvis Presley himself, the property contains the graves of his parents, paternal grandmother and grandson, and contains a memorial to Presley's stillborn twin brother. In addition, Lisa Marie Presley will be buried there.
Graceland is located at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard in the Whitehaven neighborhood, about nine miles (14 kilometers) south of central Memphis and fewer than four miles (6.4 km) north of the Mississippi border.[5] It was opened to the public as a house museum on June 7, 1982. The site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1991, becoming the first site recognized for significance related to rock music. Graceland was declared a National Historic Landmark on March 27, 2006, also a first for such a site. Graceland attracts more than 650,000 visitors annually.
Graceland Farms was originally owned by Stephen C. Toof, founder of S.C. Toof & Co., the oldest commercial printing firm in Memphis. He worked previously as the pressroom foreman of the Memphis newspaper, the Memphis Daily Appeal. The "grounds" (before the mansion was built in 1939) were named after Toof's daughter, Grace. She inherited the farm/property from her father in 1894. After her death, the property was passed to her niece Ruth Moore, a Memphis socialite. Together with her husband, Thomas Moore, Ruth Moore commissioned construction of a 10,266-square-foot (953.7 m2) Colonial Revival style mansion in 1939. The house was designed by architects Furbringer and Ehrman.
After Elvis Presley began his musical career, he purchased a $40,000 home for himself and his family at 1034 Audubon Drive in Memphis. As his success and fame grew, especially after his appearances on television, the number of fans who would congregate outside the house multiplied. Presley's neighbors, although happy to have a celebrity living nearby, soon concluded that the constant gathering of fans and journalists was a nuisance.
In early 1957, Presley gave his parents, Vernon and Gladys Presley, a budget of $100,000 and asked them to find a "farmhouse"-like property to purchase, with buffer space around it. At the time, Graceland was located in southern Shelby County, several miles south of Memphis' main urban area. In later years, Memphis would expand with residential developments, resulting in Graceland being surrounded by other properties. Presley purchased Graceland on March 19, 1957, for the amount of $102,500.
Later that year, Presley invited Richard Williams and singer Buzz Cason to the house. Cason said: "We proceeded to clown around on the front porch, striking our best rock 'n' roll poses and snapping pictures with the little camera. We peeked in the not-yet-curtained windows and got a kick out of the pastel colored walls in the front rooms with shades of bright reds and purples that Elvis most certainly had picked out." Presley was fond of claiming that the US government had mooted a visit to Graceland by Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union, "to see how in America a fellow can start out with nothing and, you know, make good."
After Gladys died in 1958 aged 46, Presley's father Vernon remarried to Dee Stanley in 1960, and the couple lived at Graceland for a time. There was some discord between Presley and his stepmother Dee at Graceland, however. Elaine Dundy, who wrote about Presley and his mother, said that
"Vernon had settled down with Dee where Gladys had once reigned, while Dee herself – when Elvis was away – had taken over the role of mistress of Graceland so thoroughly as to rearrange the furniture and replace the very curtains that Gladys had approved of." This was too much for the singer, who still loved his late mother deeply. One afternoon, "a van arrived ... and all Dee's household's goods, clothes, 'improvements,' and her own menagerie of pets, were loaded on ... while Vernon, Dee and her three children went by car to a nearby house on Hermitage until they finally settled into a house on Dolan Drive which ran alongside Elvis' estate."
According to Mark Crispin Miller, Graceland became for Presley "the home of the organization that was himself, was tended by a large vague clan of Presleys and deputy Presleys, each squandering the vast gratuities which Elvis used to keep his whole world smiling." The author adds that Presley's father Vernon "had a swimming pool in his bedroom", that there "was a jukebox next to the swimming pool, containing Elvis' favorite records", and that the singer himself "would spend hours in his bedroom, watching his property on a closed-circuit television." According to the singer's cousin, Billy Smith, Presley spent the night at Graceland with Smith and his wife Jo many times: "we were all three there talking for hours about everything in the world! Sometimes he would have a bad dream and come looking for me to talk to, and he would actually fall asleep in our bed with us."
Priscilla Beaulieu lived at Graceland for five years before she and Presley wed in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 1, 1967. Their daughter Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968, and spent the first years of her life on the estate. After her parents divorced in 1972, her mother moved with the girl to California. Every year around Christmas, Lisa Marie Presley and all her family would go to Graceland to celebrate Christmas together. Lisa Marie often returned to Graceland for visits.
When Elvis would tour, staying in hotels, "the rooms would be remodeled in advance of his arrival, so as to make the same configurations of space as he had at home – the Graceland mansion. His furniture would arrive, and he could unwind after his performances in surroundings which were completely familiar and comforting." 'The Jungle Room' was described as being "an example of particularly lurid kitsch."[
On August 16, 1977, Presley died aged 42 at Graceland. The official cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia, although later toxicology reports strongly suggested that polypharmacy was the primary cause of death; "fourteen drugs were found in Elvis' system, with several drugs such as codeine in significant quantities. Presley lay in repose in a 900-pound (410 kg), copper-lined coffin just inside the foyer; more than 3,500 of his mourning fans passed by to pay their respects. A private funeral with 200 mourners was held on August 18, 1977, in the house, with the casket placed in front of the stained glass doorway of the music room. Graceland continued to be occupied by members of the family until the death of Presley's aunt Delta in 1993, who had moved in at Elvis's invitation after her husband's death. Elvis's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, inherited the estate in 1993 when she turned 25.
Presley's tombstone, along with those of his parents Gladys and Vernon Presley, and his grandmother Minnie Mae Presley, are installed in the Meditation Garden next to the mansion. They can be visited during the mansion tours or for free before the mansion tours begin. A memorial gravestone for Presley's stillborn twin brother, Jesse Garon, is also at the site.
In 2019, the owners of Graceland threatened to leave Memphis unless the city provided tax incentives. The Memphis City Council subsequently voted on a deal to help fund a $100 million expansion of Graceland.
Constructed at the top of a hill and surrounded by rolling pastures and a grove of oak trees, Graceland is designed by the Memphis architectural firm, Furbringer and Erhmanis. It's a two-story, five-bay residence in the Colonial Revival style, with a side-facing gabled roof covered in asphalt shingles, a central two-story projecting pedimented portico, and two one-story wings on the north and south sides. Attached to the wing is an additional one-story stuccoed wing, which was originally a garage that houses up to four cars. The mansion has two chimneys; one on the north side's exterior wall, the second rising through the south side's roof ridge. The central block's front and side facades are veneered with tan Tishomingo limestone from Mississippi and its rear wall is stuccoed, as are the one-story wings. The front facade fenestration on the first floor includes 9x9 double-hung windows set in arched openings with wooden panels above, and 6x6 double-hung windows on the second floor.
Flanked by two marble lions, four stone steps ascend from the driveway to the two-story central projecting pedimented portico. The pediment has dentils and a small, leaded oval window in the center while the portico contains four Corinthian columns with capitals modeled after architect James Stuart's conjectural porticos for the "Tower of the Winds" in Athens, Greece. The portico's cornered columns are matched by pilasters on the front facade. The doorway has a broken arched pediment, full entablature, and engaged columns while its transom and sidelights contain elaborate and colorful stained glass. And above the main entrance is another rectangular window, completed with a shallow iron balcony.
Graceland is 17,552 square feet (1,630.6 m2) and has a total of 23 rooms, including eight bedrooms and bathrooms. To the right of the Entrance Hall, through an elliptical-arched opening with classical details, is the Living Room. The Living Room contains a 15-foot-long (4.6 m) white couch against the wall overlooking the front yard. To the left are two white sofas, a china cabinet and a fireplace with a mirrored wall. The painting that hangs in the room was Elvis' last Christmas present from his father, Vernon, and also displayed are photographs of Elvis' parents Vernon and Gladys, Elvis and Lisa Marie. Behind an adjoined doorway is the Music Room, framed by vivid large peacocks set in stained glass and contains a black baby grand piano and a 1950s style TV. And the third adjacent room is a bedroom that was occupied by Elvis' parents. The walls, carpet, dresser, and queen size bed are bright white with the bed draped in a velvet-looking dark purple bedspread along with an en-suite full bathroom done in pink.
To the left of the Entrance Hall, mirroring the Living Room, is the Dining Room, headlined by a massive crystal chandelier. It features six plush chairs in golden metal frames set around a marble table, all of which are placed on black marble flooring in the center with carpet around the perimeter. Connected to the Dining Room is the Kitchen, which was used by Elvis' aunt Delta until her death in 1993 before it was opened to the public two years later.
The original one-story wing on the north end of the residence includes a mechanical room, bedroom, and bath. In the mid-1960s, Presley enlarged the house to create a den known as the Jungle Room which features an indoor waterfall of cut field stone on the north wall. The room also contains items both related to and imported from the state of Hawaii because, after starring in the tropical film "Blue Hawaii" (1961), the musician wanted to bring some memorabilia from The Aloha State to his mansion, which gives visitors the same feeling. In 1976, the Jungle Room was converted into a recording studio, where he recorded the bulk of his final two albums, From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee (1976) and Moody Blue (1977); these were his final known recordings in a studio setting.[27] During the mid-1960s expansion of the house, Presley constructed a large wing on the south side of the main house that was a sidewalk, between the music room in the original one-story wing and the swimming pool area, that connected to the house by a small enclosed gallery. The new wing initially housed a slot car track and to store his many items of appreciation, but was later remodeled to what is now known as the Trophy Building, which now features an exhibit about the Presley family, and includes Priscilla's wedding dress, Elvis' wedding tuxedo, Lisa Marie's toy chest and baby clothes and more.
The Entrance Hall contains a white staircase leading to the house's second floor with a wall of mirrors. However, the second floor is not open to visitors, out of respect for the Presley family, and partially to avoid any improper focus on the bathroom which was the site of his death. Still, it features Elvis' bedroom at the southwest corner that connects to his dressing room and bathroom in the northwest. His daughter Lisa Marie's bedroom is in the northeast corner, and in the southeast is a bedroom that served as a private personal office for the musician. The floor has been untouched since the day Elvis died and is rarely seen by non-family members.
Downstairs in the basement is the TV room, where Elvis often watched three television sets at once, and was within close reach of a wet bar. The three TV sets are built into the room's south wall and there's a stereo, and cabinets for Elvis' record collection. And painted on the west wall is The King's 1970s logo of a lightning bolt and cloud with the initials TCB, both of which represent 'taking care of business in a flash'. And the last room in the mansion opposite of the TV room is the billiard room; an avid billiards player, Elvis bought the pool table in 1960 and had the walls and ceiling covered with 350–400 yards of pleated cotton fabric after the two basement rooms were remodeled in 1974. The pool balls are arranged just the way they were in the musician's final days along with a strict warning sign to visitors that says "Please Do Not Touch! Thank You!" in capital letters. And in one corner of the pool table, there's a rip in the green felt, which was caused by one of Elvis' friends in a failed attempt of a trick shot.
Critics such as Albert Goldman write: "Though it cost a lot of money to fill up Graceland with the things that appealed to Elvis Presley, nothing in the house is worth a dime." In chapter 1 of his book, Elvis (1981), the author describes Graceland as looking like a brothel: "it appears to have been lifted from some turn-of-the-century bordello down in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Lulu White or the Countess Willie Piazza might have contrived this plushy parlor for the entertainment of Gyp the Blood. The room is a gaudy mélange of red velour and gilded tassels, Louis XV furniture and porcelain bric-a-brac..." And he dismisses the interior as "bizarre," "garish" and "phony," adding that "King Elvis's obsession with royal red reaches an intensity that makes you gag."
In similar terms, Greil Marcus writes that people who visited the inside of Graceland—"people who to a real degree shared Elvis Presley’s class background, and whose lives were formed by his music—have returned with one word to describe what they saw: ‘Tacky.’ Tacky, garish, tasteless—words others translated as white trash."
According to Karal Ann Marling, Graceland is "a Technicolor illusion. The façade is Gone With the Wind all the way. The den in the back is Mogambo with a hint of Blue Hawaii. Living in Graceland was like living on a Hollywood backlot, where patches of tropical scenery alternated with the blackened ruins of antebellum Atlanta. It was like living in a Memphis movie theater... Diehard fans are sometimes disappointed by the formal rooms along the highway side of Graceland. They’re beautiful, in a chilly blue-and-white way, but remote and overarranged." The Jungle Room's "overt bad taste" lets nonbelievers "recoil in horror and imagine themselves a notch or two higher than Elvis on the class scale."
After purchasing the property Presley spent in excess of $500,000 carrying out extensive modifications to suit his needs including a pink Alabama fieldstone wall surrounding the grounds that has several years' worth of graffiti (signatures and messages) from visitors, who simply refer to it as "the wall". Designed and built by Abe Sauer is the wrought-iron front gate shaped like a book of sheet music, along with green colored musical notes and two mirrored silhouettes of Elvis playing his guitar. Sauer also installed a kidney shaped swimming pool and a racquetball court, which is reminiscent of an old country club, furnished in dark leather and a functional bar. There is a sunken sitting area with the ever-present stereo system found throughout Graceland, as well as the dark brown upright piano upon which Elvis played for what were to be his last songs, Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" and "Unchained Melody".
However, reports conflict about which one was the last song. The sitting area has a floor-to-ceiling shatterproof window designed to watch the many racquetball games that took place there when Elvis was alive. In the early hours of the morning on which Elvis died, he played a game of racquetball with his girlfriend Ginger Alden, his first cousin Billy Smith and Billy's wife Jo before ending the game with the song on the piano before walking into the main house to wash his hair and go to bed. Today the two story court has been restored to the way it was when Elvis used the building.
Elsewhere on the estate is a small white building that served as an office for Vernon, along with an old smokehouse that housed a shooting range and a fully functional stable of horses.
One of Presley's better known modifications was the addition of the Meditation Garden, designed and built by architect Bernard Grenadier. It was used by the musician to reflect on any problems or situations that arose during his life. It is also where his entire family is buried: himself (1935–1977), his parents Gladys (1912–1958) and Vernon (1916–1979), and grandmother Minnie Mae Hood (1890–1980) while a small stone memorializes his twin brother Jesse Garon, who died at birth thirty minutes before Elvis was born on January 8, 1935. In late 2020, Lisa Marie's son Benjamin Keough was laid to rest on the opposite end of the Meditation Garden after his death from suicide in July of that year. Lisa Marie Presley died from sudden cardiac arrest in January 2023 and is buried next to her son.
After Elvis Presley's death in 1977, Vernon Presley served as executor of his estate. Upon his death in 1979, he chose Priscilla to serve as the estate executor for Elvis's only child, Lisa Marie, who was only 11. Graceland itself cost $500,000 a year in upkeep, and expenses had dwindled Elvis's and Priscilla's daughter Lisa Marie's inheritance to only $1 million. Taxes were due on the property; those and other expenses due came to over $500,000. Faced with having to sell Graceland, Priscilla examined other famous houses/museums, and hired a CEO, Jack Soden, to turn Graceland into a moneymaker. Graceland was opened to the public on June 7, 1982. Priscilla's gamble paid off; after only a month of opening Graceland's doors the estate made back all the money it had invested. Priscilla Presley became the chairwoman and president of Elvis Presley Enterprises, or EPE, stating at that time she would do so until Lisa Marie reached 21 years of age. The enterprise's fortunes soared and eventually the trust grew to be worth over $100 million.
An annual procession through the estate and past Elvis's grave is held on the anniversary of his death. Known as Elvis Week, it includes a full schedule of speakers and events, including the only Elvis Mass at St. Paul's Church, the highlight for many Elvis fans of all faiths. The 20th Anniversary in 1997 had several hundred media groups from around the world that were present resulting in the event gaining its greatest media publicity.
One of the largest gatherings assembled on the 25th anniversary in 2002 with one estimate of 40,000 people in attendance, despite the heavy rain. On the 38th anniversary of Elvis's death, an estimated 30,000 people attended the Candlelight Vigil during the night of August 15–16, 2015. On the 40th anniversary of Elvis's death, on August 15–16, 2017, at least 50,000 fans were expected to attend the Candlelight Vigil. No official figure seems to have been released, maybe because, for the first time, attendees had to pay at least the lowest tour fare, $28.75, to cover the extra security costs due to a larger than usual crowd.
For many of the hundreds of thousands of people who visit Graceland each year, the visit takes on a quasi-religious perspective. They may plan for years to journey to the home of the 'King' of rock and roll. On site, headphones narrate the salient events of Elvis's life and introduce the relics that adorn the rooms and corridors. The rhetorical mode is hagiographic, celebrating the life of an extraordinary man, emphasizing his generosity, his kindness and good fellowship, how he was at once a poor boy who made good, an extraordinary musical talent, a sinner and substance abuser, and a religious man devoted to the Gospel and its music. At the meditation garden, containing Elvis's grave, some visitors pray, kneel, or quietly sing one of Elvis's favorite hymns. The brick wall that encloses the mansion's grounds is covered with graffiti that express an admiration for Presley as well as petitions for help and thanks for favors granted.
The Graceland grounds include a new exhibit complex, Elvis Presley's Memphis, which includes a new car museum, Presley Motors, which houses Elvis's Pink Cadillac. The complex features new exhibits and museums, as well as a studio for Sirius Satellite Radio's all-Elvis Presley channel. The service's subscribers all over North America can hear Presley's music from Graceland around the clock. Not far away on display are his two aircraft including Lisa Marie (a Convair 880 jetliner) and Hound Dog II (a Lockheed JetStar business jet). The jets are owned by Graceland and are on permanent static display.
In early August 2005, Lisa Marie Presley sold 85% of the business side of her father's estate. She kept the Graceland property itself, as well as the bulk of the possessions found therein, and she turned over the management of Graceland to CKX, Inc., an entertainment company (on whose board of directors Priscilla Presley sat) that also owns 19 Entertainment, creator of the American Idol TV show.
Graceland Holdings LLC, led by managing partner Joel Weinshanker, is the majority owner of EPE. Lisa Marie Presley's estate retains a 15% ownership in the company.
In August 2018, Gladys Presley's headstone, which contained the Jewish star of David on one side and a cross on the other and was designed by Elvis himself, which become publicly displayed when it placed in Graceland's Mediation Garden after being stored for many years in the Graceland Archive.
Lisa Marie Presley's estate, which is being held in trust for her daughters Riley Keough and Harper and Finley Lockwood, retain 100% sole personal ownership of Graceland Mansion itself and its over 13-acre original grounds as well as Elvis Presley's personal effects – including costumes, wardrobe, awards, furniture, cars, etc. Prior to her death in 2023, Lisa Marie Presley had made the mansion property and her father's personal effects permanently available for tours of Graceland and for use in all of EPE's operations.
According to Elvis Presley's Enterprises, staff at Graceland informally kept a list of celebrities who had visited in the first years following Elvis's death. This practice was not formalized for a decade. Muhammad Ali was an early celebrity visitor in 1978, as was singer Paul Simon. He toured Graceland in the early 80s and afterward wrote a song of the same name; it was the title track of his Grammy-winning album Graceland.
During the Joshua Tree Tour in 1987, U2 toured Graceland. The footage was filmed for the film Rattle & Hum. During the visit, drummer, Larry Mullen Jr., sat on Elvis Presley's motorcycle -- against the rules for Graceland visitors.
On June 30, 2006, then US President George W. Bush hosted Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for a tour of the mansion. It was one of the few private residences on United States soil to have been the site of an official joint-visit by a sitting US president and a serving head of a foreign government. On August 6, 2010, Prince Albert II, Head of State of the Principality of Monaco, and his fiancée (now Princess of Monaco) Charlene Wittstock, toured Graceland while vacationing in the US. On May 26, 2013, Paul McCartney of The Beatles visited Graceland. Prince William and Prince Harry, while in Memphis for a friend's wedding, visited Graceland on May 2, 2014.
The home has also been visited by former US President Jimmy Carter; the late Duchess of Devonshire, the sitting ambassadors of India, France, China, Korea and Israel to the United States; as well as several US governors, members of the US Congress, and at least two Nobel Prize winners, namely singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, a Literature Prize laureate, and the former President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, a Peace Prize honoree, who visited it on October 10, 2001.
In May 2016, Graceland welcomed a newlywed couple as its 20 millionth visitor.
In June 2022, actors Austin Butler and Tom Hanks visited the mansion and were interviewed virtually by the Good Morning America news program from the Jungle Room to talk about their biographical film Elvis.
In popular culture
Paul Simon named an album Graceland, as well as its title track. The song won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1987.
The song "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn mentions Graceland; in the second verse, he refers to the mansion and the Jungle Room. This song was later covered by Cher and Lonestar, among others.
The film 3000 Miles to Graceland is about a group of criminals who plan to rob a casino during an international Elvis week, disguised as Elvis impersonators. No scenes take place at or near the estate.
The film Finding Graceland stars Harvey Keitel with Johnathon Schaech. Keitel is an impersonator who claims to be the real Elvis after Schaech picks him up as a hitch-hiker.
In the rock music "mockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap, band members gather around Presley's grave at Graceland and attempt to sing a verse of "Heartbreak Hotel".
Pop punk group Groovie Ghoulies have a song called "Graceland" on their 1997 album Re-Animation Festival.
In the movie Zombieland: Double Tap, the protagonists venture to Graceland in hopes of shelter during a zombie apocalypse, but are distressed to find it in a ruined state.
During the credits of Lilo & Stitch, there's a photograph of Lilo, Nani, David and Stitch visiting the front gates of Graceland. Almost 20 years later, the original painting of that shot was put on display as part of the traveling Walt Disney Archives exhibition at Graceland.
In the season three episode of American Dad “The Vacation Goo”, Steve Smith asks Stan Smith if they can go to Graceland for their next vacation and Stan says “Steve, if you want to pay your respects to a fat man who died on the toilet, we can visit your Aunt Mary’s grave.”
Phoebe Bridgers has a song "Graceland Too" on her second studio album Punisher.
In the third episode of National Treasure: Edge of History, "Graceland Gambit," the main protagonist, Jess (portrayed by Lisette Olivera) is on a treasure hunt that leads her and her friends to Graceland.
Florence + The Machine reference Graceland and Elvis in their song "Morning Elvis" on their 2022 album Dance Fever.
WEEK 14 – BAM Southaven Relocation: Old Store, Set 2
Finally turning away from the rear wall as we prepare to make our trek back up to the front. Here we’re standing along the center aisle, with our shot angled toward the left-side wall of the store so that you can see all of the pictorial décor on the walls. Note too the tile on the floor in the actionways here, down the center and along the front and back walls: this feature was not carried over to the new store, which is fully carpeted.
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"Relocation Program"
A card I painted for my company for the Holidays...Or, over-consumerism, Santa's own demise!:)
I really had fun painting this one! As usual, ipad and Procreate.
WEEK 28 – Lakeland Kroger, Set II
Panning to the right, here's that promised look at the new convenience store building that Kroger built on the site of the demolished Schnucks car wash (which, again, was likely built by an actual gas station operator rather than Schnucks themselves). I had assumed that this building was here all along, given how strange it looks for a Kroger convenience store, but evidently I was wrong on that!
For all the trouble that Kroger went to to build this convenience store, it's a shame that it has likely since closed down: Kroger recently sold off their convenience store business to a new operator. The fuel center here surely remains open, having converted back to a simple Kroger Fuel Center from a separately-branded KwikShop... but the KwikShop-branded convenience store, I assume, has bit the dust, sadly.
Also visible in this pic is the old Lakeland Kroger across the street, now operating as a Sprouts Farmers Market. As I've said before, Kroger chose to relocate to this building when Schnucks vacated it in 2011.
KwikShop (now closed) // 9027 US-64, Memphis, TN 38002
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Here’s a little something different as a teaser for my most recent blog post… I made this graphic literally one year ago this week, and I’m sure I was saving it for some sort of purpose, but at this point it’s been long enough that I might as well just go ahead and post it now. I can’t remember exactly, but I think my main purpose for this was at first to show all the stores that had departed Southaven Towne Center for Tanger Outlets Southaven, but then as I kept working on it it also turned into a graphic showing *all* the stores that had left STC for anywhere else (or nowhere, just closing outright) as well as those that had relocated to Tanger from places besides STC. So, in other words, it’s a mess. (It's also not up-to-date or complete, given many stores have departed from here over the years, including Payless and LifeWay in the time since I made this.) But let’s try to sort through it all anyway. :P
Starting at the top (northernmost point) of the image, you have South Lake Centre, which I made a similar graphic for, except that one focused on all the stores that relocated *to* SLC instead of *away* from it. To be fair, not many at all have done the latter, but both Dressbarn and Gap FactoryStore did, opting for new locations at Tanger as soon as Tanger opened in November 2015. Dressbarn closed their SLC store in favor of the Tanger location; Gap kept both operational, but only for a short period (see the SLC store’s liquidation in this album). Gap is still operational at Tanger, but I discovered recently that Dressbarn has quietly closed, meaning they have left Southaven entirely after a long run here. Their space within Tanger is set to become a Polo Ralph Lauren Outlet soon.
Also near the top of the image, I included a note that the long-running Thomas Kinkade Gallery from Wolfchase Galleria relocated to Tanger. Unfortunately, that did not last very long at all. I talked more about that relocation at this photo.
Within Southaven Towne Center itself, a whole cluster of stores either abandoned their longstanding positions at the decade-older STC in favor of Tanger, or simply supplemented them with a second location at Tanger, keeping the STC store open as well. Not that I believe keeping two locations of the same chain operational along the same exact street is the smartest business decision, but at least it means less vacancies for STC, haha! Starting with the former variety, American Eagle, Rue21, and College Station all shuttered their STC locations in favor of shiny new storefronts at Tanger (none of which, it seems, I can find photos of online, unfortunately).
Meanwhile (and surprisingly!), four others – Kay, Rack Room, GNC, and Carter’s – have all opened new stores at Tanger while simultaneously keeping their existing stores at STC open. Again, I find this strange and redundant, but I suppose I can’t complain if they’re all keeping two storefronts occupied and people employed…
Aéropostale is a unique story; they closed their STC location in 2016, only to reappear at Tanger a year later (…and then close down once more not six months later, but hey). This one, then, probably can’t be considered a true relocation like the rest, but I still thought it important in the sense that they could just as easily have reopened at their old STC building (which has literally remained untouched since then: even the “final 2 days” sign can still be seen hanging out inside the place!).
And finally, I also included three others on here that are related to STC but not Tanger: hhgregg, which went out of business entirely; Books-a-Million, which relocated from STC to SLC; and Gordmans, which closed and then reopened again as Gordmans. I’ve covered two of those in the past, and will have something related to the other coming up fairly soon…
Anyway, all this to say that I’ve got a new blog post up :P Its subject is DeSoto Pointe, which to the casual description-reader might seem completely unrelated to everything I just talked about in this description, and as such likely prompts a number of questions, which I would like to answer here but that would negate the whole point of having written an entire blog post on the topic, so instead I’ll direct you over there and say thanks and happy reading! :)
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WEEK 52 – Southaven Burlington Relocation: Finale (Buck's Bargain Center)
Panning back to the entrance area and main (if makeshift!) façade for Buck's, where we can again see the traditional Super Kmart awning. As you've been able to see over the last several pictures, Buck's installed new signs all across their portion of the exterior here, illustrating what departments they have. The same departments are stated on their website; the full list is as follows: lawn and garden, electrical, plumbing, tools, hardware, housewares, paint, grilling, and building materials.
The former six are all signed on the exterior of this store, while the latter three are not. Perhaps more important to mention is that all of this “inventory comes from store resets, tradeshows, and overstocks,” again as per their website. So in other words, Buck's Bargain Center is essentially a discount Lowe's store! (cont.)
Buck's Bargain Center // 550 Stateline Road W, Southaven, MS 38671
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bezoekers laten hun portret tekenen op een verhuisdoos / visitors have their portrait drawn on a moving box
Relocated from Philae Island to Agilika Island.
Patrons Temple: Ptolemy II Philadelphus (friend of his siblings) 308/9-246 BCE (r.283-246 BCE), &
Caesar Augustus 63 BCE-14 CE (r.27 BC-14 CE).
I seem to remember that someone uprooted this little mushroom and that I placed it on this log to photograph it - does look like it, doesn't it, LOL? Taken at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park on 23rd August last year.
Have hardly been on Flickr today - have instead spent hours downloading some of my 2008 Flickr photos to a file so that I can back them up and eventually burn to DVD (for my kids and for my own use). This is so monotonous to do, needless to say, but has to be done.
WEEK 32.2 – Oakland Kroger, Pre-Remodel (II)
With the aforementioned reset involving the shift of all the existing aisles and subsequent creation of a new one out of the newly discovered space, the Aisle 12 marker made its way one aisle over, to the aisle pictured here. It's too bad that I couldn't capture it in the exact same position here in Oakland as it was in my Hernando store, but there's a replica of the millennium décor Aisle 12 marker that started it all, nonetheless :)
From this angle, it's also plainly obvious that the aisle marker was removed and re-hung; there's no way it should be perfectly even with the top of my photo, when the rest of my pic is so blatantly tilted to the right :P (On a related note, apologies for that XD )
My only regret in all of this is that I only put the puzzle pieces about the reset together *after* I had returned home and reviewed these photos... I didn't realize the significance of all of this while I was actually still at the store. If I had, I would've been sure to pay closer attention to Aisle 11 next door, as that would have been a special case.
Obviously, the former frozen foods marker from Aisle 11 wouldn't have been suitable for relocation to a regular aisle, as it would've had just the aisle number, and no slots for item placards underneath. So the question becomes, if the store wound up having to source a new Aisle 11 marker just like they did with Aisle 13, what would it have looked like? Sadly, none of my pictures capture this; I personally do not remember; and we will likely never know, now that the store has remodeled :(
That said... what I *am* able to glean from this photo is that the “new” Aisle 11 was home to health and beauty products. So, what I like to think is that the aisle got the standard updated HABA aisle sign – which would've looked like this – thereby solving all of our décor problems. Voila! :P
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WEEK 51.1 – Southaven Burlington Relocation: New Store, Set II
To get an overview shot of the rear wall, I had to move forward a bit and find a spot within the boys' department from which to take the photo. So in this view, if you can see it all beyond those racks of clothing (!), you've got the new fitting rooms, as well as the rest of the baby department (including the tagline on the wall that we saw earlier in today's set).
The fitting rooms are the only other area of the store besides the front end to feature any red paint, and are located in a carved-out area along the rear wall. Sports Authority's fitting rooms were standalone boxes placed on the salesfloor itself – see here.
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Betsy’s Biscuit Bomber made a surprise landing at the Gardner Municipal Airport in Gardner Kansas. My good friend Tulsa Reid notified me of this and I was one a few that was able to see this bird up close and personal. More pictures of this historic aircraft coming forthwith.
Betsy’s Biscuit Bomber, N47SJ, is a C-47B-1-DK built at Oklahoma City as part of contract AC-40652 for 607 aircraft. Unlike the other aircraft of the Dakota Squadron, she has been a military girl all her working life and, as such, is one of the most original C-47s left – as well as being one of the lowest time airframes. The astrodome for star shots and drift meter for dead reckoning remain in place and very little of the upgrading seen in civil versions is apparent.
June 6, 2019 marked the 75th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of Normandy France. Seventy-five years ago, on this date almost 160.000 Allied troops stormed the Normandy beaches to start the liberation of Western-Europe. The assault was preceded by 24.000 troops who parachuted in or came by glider. The most important aircraft to support the airborne assault was formed by over 800 Douglas C-47 Skytrains (Dakotas). These winged work horses carried the brunt of all men into battle across the English Channel and may well be called the “Unsung Heroes”.
Technical Specs:
•Aircraft Max Gross
weight: 25,200 lbs.
•Wingspan: 95’
•Cruise speed: 125 kts
The Betsy Biscuit Bomber was repainted with full Normandy invasion stripes because it was slated to be involved in the first flight of aircraft over the French beaches for the commemoration events. There were a number of events planned that included re-enactment paratroopers jumping out of the fleet of C-47s. This aircraft was expected to be at the front of the group due to the authenticity of the aircraft.
Betsy Biscuit Bomber was delivered to the US Army Air Corps in April of 1944, and entered the European Theatre in September. Betty’s Biscuit Bomber missed D-Day, but was involved in the European Theatre for the rest of the war). After the war, the airplane was loaned to the Belgian Air Force from 1946-1952. From Belgium it went to the French Air Force, then the Israeli Air Force. It served with the Israeli Air Force until 1999, when an aircraft collector bought a batch of C-47s from the Israelis and relocate them to Canada. We acquired and flew the airplane home to California in 2007. We’ve been operating the airplane on the air show circuit since 2009.
This airplane is unique due to the amount of original equipment that is still present in the airplane. Since it never served in civilian service, many of the military accoutrements were never removed from the airplane. This C-47 has one of the lowest time airframes in the world at only about 9700 hours of total airframe time.
I went out for a walk in the forest this morning looking to spend some time feeding the tame chickadees and nuthatches. I was also hoping to relocate the tame male Hairy Woodpecker I encountered two weeks ago. I didn't relocate him, but I did encounter this tame Downy Woodpecker who readily hopped on my hand a couple of times for a share of the nuts and seeds the chickadees and nuthatches were excitedly snatching up. I have only had a Downy Woodpecker come to my hand like this a couple of times over the years, most of those times being within the last few months. It appears that there is a trend towards this species becoming tame. A couple of years ago having a White-breasted Nuthatch come to my hand like this was unheard of, but now they will readily come to my hand at several of our conservations areas. I wonder if the same thing will happen with Downy Woodpeckers? Maybe a couple of years from now having a Downy come to my hand will be an everyday experience when I go to the forest. Unlike the chickadees and nuthatches, who grab a seed and fly off within a second or two, this woodpecker sat on my hand and pounded away at the peanuts for up to half a minute, occasionally missing and striking my bare hand with her chisel-like beak. That hurt! On one visit she clung to my wrist and just sat there for half a minute or so watching the torrent of chickadees of nuthatches before grabbing one of the large shelled peanuts and making off with it. She then spent the next couple of minutes unsuccessfully trying to get it open. Aside from this 20 minute feeding frenzy, which came upon me suddenly and ended just as fast, there were surprisingly few birds around the forest this morning. Areas of open water were completely frozen over and there weren't even many squirrels around. An hour after this feeding frenzy ended I returned to the same area hoping to have more encounters with this tame Downy and I couldn't even find a single chickadee. I did note a few small flocks of winter birds flying over: Bohemian Waxwing, White-winged Crossbill, and a singleton Pine Siskin. But none in the forest itself. No sparrows either. I had my video camera handy when the Downy was coming to my hand and the following video shows two visits by the Downy.<p><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6Z7kHQaXNBs?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6Z7kHQaXNBs?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></p>
The beverage station once figured prominently in the layout of the front right corner of this Kroger, in plain view of the hot food counter at the deli. Thanks to Starbucks, it was moved: tucked away in the corner of the café. Oh well, at least this Korger still has a café, unlike the Olive Branch store. Theirs was removed entirely, to make space for ClickList unfortunately.
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Kroger, 2004-built, Goodman Rd. at Getwell Rd., Southaven, MS
This was Alma's Walmart before locating across the street to a supercenter. Now an Atwoods Farm Store. Built in 1981 and 41,089 SF
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The Minidoka Relocation Center, 15 miles north of Twin Falls and 150 miles southeast of Boise, was also referred to as the Hunt Camp. Minidoka was considered a model environment because of its relatively peaceful atmosphere and population that got along well with the administration. Because it was not within the Western Defense Command restricted area, security was somewhat lighter than at most other camps. But when the internees first arrived, they were shocked to see the bleak landscape that was to be there home over the next three years.
Located on the Snake River Plain at an elevation of 4000 feet, the land is dotted with sagebrush and thin basaltic lava flows and cinder cones. The internees found the environment to be extremely harsh, with temperatures ranging from 30 degrees below zero to as high as 115 degrees. They also had to contend with blinding dust storms and ankle-deep mud after the rains.
Minidoka was in operation from August 10, 1942 to October 28, 1945. The reserve covered more than 33,000 acres of land in Jerome County. The camp’s peak population reached 9,397 by March 1, 1943, and it became Idaho's third largest city. Five miles of barbed wire fencing and eight watchtowers surrounded the administrative and residential areas, which were located in the west-central portion of the reserve.
Most of the people interned at Minidoka were from the Pacific Northwest: approximately 7,050 from Seattle and Bainbridge Island, Washington, 2,500 from Oregon and 150 from Alaska, including children or grandchildren of Eskimo women and Japanese men. They were temporarily housed at the Puyallup Fairgrounds in Washington, then sent by train to Idaho. In early 1943, all of the Bainbridge Island, Washington, residents interned at the Manzanar Relocation Center were transferred to Minidoka at their own request because of constant conflict with the internees from Terminal Island in Los Angeles.
The central camp consisted of 600 buildings on 950 acres. When the first internees arrived at Minidoka in August 1942, they moved into the crude barracks even though much of the camp was unfinished and there was no running water or sewage system. The Army insisted on having all Japanese removed from the West Coast at once, and they did not halt the evacuation until the camp could hold no more. The last group of 500 evacuees to arrive at the camp had to sleep in mess halls, laundry rooms, or any available bed space. Waiting in line for many daily functions, especially meals, was common.
The camp’s residential area encompassed 36 blocks and was one mile wide and three miles long. Each block included 12 tarpaper barracks, one dining hall, one laundry building with communal showers and toilets and a recreation hall. Immediately after arrival, the internees were instructed to see the camp physician, and then they received an apartment assignment. Apartments were of three sizes, and where possible, family groups or relatives were placed near each other. Efforts were later made to move people near their place of employment.