MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1999
Mari Askew has had a love-hate relationship with Memphis's bluffwalk. "I've been on both sides of the table on this issue . . . I love the concept that everyone should enjoy nature through the bluffwalk, but the design concerned me. Now I'm at the point that I just wish it was finished." Askew, who bought a condominium atop the bluff in 1990, may get her wish by the middle of next month. That is when the $2.5 million bluffwalk should be finished, the project's designers say.
50 years ago — 1974
Without fanfare, the American Basketball
Association ends its fourth season in Memphis tonight. And only two men — Wil Jones and Lee Davis — have been with the franchise since its beginning in Memphis.
75 years ago — 1949
NEW YORK – The World Peace Conference wound up with a hectic session at Madison Square Garden Sunday night where a capacity crowd of 18,700 passed a gauntlet of 2,000 shouting pickets to gain admittance. The famed sports arena was a sellout, the audience paying 60 cents to $3.60 for admission, to hear fervent pleas for peace combined with bitter denunciations of Winston
Churchill, the United States State Department, President Truman and the North Atlantic Treaty.
100 years ago — 1924
The Memphis Terminal Corporation, operating the largest cotton storage warehouse in the South, will be taken over immediately by the Memphis Warehouse Corporation, a new company of Memphis capital, but chartered under the laws of Virginia with a total capitalization of $1,800,000, it was announced yesterday by Joseph Newburger, president of the Newburger Cotton Company and the Grenada Compress Company.