UNION INTERCHANGE WAS PRETTY IMPRESSIVE IN ‘83
25 years ago: 1987
Apartments on North Mud Island, long touted as one of the choicest housing sites in Memphis, should be available for occupancy by January, developers said yesterday.
The layout and drawings for the 350unit Riverset Apartments were shown to Center City Revenue Finance Corp. board members after they requested an update on the project, which received $62 million in tax-free bond financing in 1985.
The design, location and developers of the apartments have changed since then. Riverset will include two mid-rise buildings and several clusters of two - story garden-style apartments on 25 acres north of the Auction Avenue Bridge scheduled to be completed this fall.
The developers are Jeff Leonard of Hilton Head, S.C., and Jon Kinsey of Chattanooga.
50 years ago: 1962
Demolition crews will start clearing land this week for the new multimillion- dollar marble and glass-fronted City Hall building, which is scheduled to be completed by mid-1963. Preliminary plans for the $5,500,000 building already have been drawn and approved by the City Commission. In its six stories will be housed about 600 city workers now scattered in a dozen downtown offices. The structure also The Union Avenue interchange of I-240 Midtown as seen from the air on June 10, 1983. The bridge at the bottom of the image is Eastmoreland. Photograph taken looking north. will provide parking spaces for 450 automobiles at the below-ground level. Planned in the middle of the city’s 35million- dollar Civic Center, the new City Hall will be located next to the new Federal Building and will occupy a block bounded by Main, Front, Adams and Washington.
75 years ago: 1937
Dr. John Cromwell Carmichael, Alabama-born and former honorary captain in the British Army, has been elected chancellor of Vanderbilt University to succeed James H. Kirkland.
100 years ago: 1912
Rules governing picture theaters where vaudeville shows are also presented have been drawn by the Board of Censors and show managers warned that any breach will result in the abolition of the stage acts. Among the rules is one forbidding actresses to wear skirts shorter than four inches below the knee.
125 years ago: 1887
City authorities should look after the bayous as well as the cleaning up of back yards. The bayou between Vance and Linden has water as black as tar and green around the edges. Persons living nearby are almost compelled to keep their doors and windows closed, despite the heat, on account of the terrific smell. The bayou could be flooded about twice a week by opening the nearby hydrants.