MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1995
Nashville Mayor Phil Bredesen said Tuesday that Memphis is the Houston Oilers’ top choice as a temporary playing site, if one is needed. Bredesen, in a luncheon speech to the Memphis Rotary Club, publicly began his bid to win this city’s support for Nashville’s state-supported National Football League bid and outlined what could be in it for Memphis - two years of Oilers games at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium while Nashville is building a stadium. ”Memphis is a great market,” Bredesen said. ”(The Oilers) would like to develop the market here. Playing here for two years would be a tremendous way to do that.”
50 years ago — 1970
For the past two days, delegates from 42 states have held a convention of the national American Party in Memphis in strict secrecy. Those delegates last night sought to black out all news coverage of Alabama Gov.-elect George Wallace’s visit to Memphis to address their convention. Mr. Wallace, who was the unsuccessful standard bearer for the American Party in the1968 presidential election, told reporters after the convention that he could understand the delegates’ shyness about publicity, saying “The party is a state of reorganization and some delegates feel publicity could do no good.”
75 years ago — 1945
The City Board of Adjustment yesterday denied the application of L.A. Weaver to permit erection of a $100,000 motion picture theater on the south side of Poplar, 150 feet east of Highland. The application was protested by 20 residents of the neighborhood represented by Rudolph Johnson, attorney. Mr. Johnson also submitted a petition of protest signed by 47 others.
100 years ago — 1920
NEW YORK — Tank wagon prices of gasoline will be reduced one cent a gallon tomorrow in states in which the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana operate, it was announced here tonight by Walter C. Teague, president of the New Jersey company. States in which the reduction will be effective include New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia, in which the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey operates, and in Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas, in which the Louisiana company operates.