Final edition: Last press run in Memphis
For first time in decades, The Commercial Appeal will be printed elsewhere
Seven ink-stained working men came to 495 Union Ave. on Sunday evening to print one more edition of The Commercial Appeal.
Monday’s Volume 176, No. 107 will be the last edition of the Memphis daily newspaper printed in Memphis.
Beginning with Tuesday’s edition, The Commercial Appeal will be published 80 miles up the road in Jackson.
The paper’s last move goes back to the Civil War
Not since the Civil War, when the “Moving Appeal” was printed in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, has this newspaper been published somewhere else.
“I guess it’s historic,” said David Rose, who rose from a printer’s apprentice in 1983 to become pressroom manager in 2011. “I’ll probably grab the last copy.” Rose knows the last copy came off the C press — the most reliable of the four Goss Metroliner presses that have been printing “Old Reliable” since 1975.
Printing history: The death of Elvis and Hurricane Elvis
Those four presses have printed millions of pages of history. The death of Elvis Aug. 17, 1977, and the destruction caused by