681 Franklin Avenue - Building marked for demolition - August 2004 © Frank H. Jump
This building dates back to when Brooklyn was a horse town.
January, 2011:
Vinny’s Cafe – Dahill Moving & Storage – Mayflower World Wide Moving – Coney Island Avenue – Ditmas Park, Brooklyn 2004
Chad’s 60 South – Prince Mongo’s Planet – Williams Cotton Company – Memphis, TN
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Frank H. Jump
Close up of door @ Chad's 60 South © Frank H. Jump
Xiaoqichao's Photos @ Buzznet Jan 2006
- Chad’s 60 South – Flickr
- Robert “Prince Mongo” Hodges – Memphis History dot org
F. G. Barton Cotton Factors – Cotton Row – Memphis, TN
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
- Memphis Cotton Exchange – F. G. Barton, President 1932-1933
- Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power – Gene Dattel dot com
- BUILDING IT OF BRICK AND HOLLOW TILE: LEE WILSON AND BLACK LABOUR By Professor Jeannie Whayne, Department of History, University of Arkansas
- FG Barton Cotton – Flickr
Mr. Handy’s Blues Hall – Juke Joint – Beale Street – Memphis, TN
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Old Beale Street is coming down
Sweeties’ Snack Bar, boarded up now
And Egles The Tailor and the Shine Boy’s gone
Faded out with ragtime blues
Handy’s cast in bronze
And he’s standing in a little park
With a trumpet in his hand
Like he’s listening back to the good old bands
And the click of high heeled shoes
Old Furry sings the blues
-Furry Sings the Blues, Hejira (1976) Joni Mitchell
Other postings with WC Handy references:
- Furry Sings the Blues – Joni Mitchell – Jay Warren – Memphis TN -December 26, 2008
- Memphis – Home of the Blues – Birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll – Sep 27th, 2009
Memphis Sanitation Receptacles – Beale Street – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr & The Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike
Cotton – Fulton & Sons – Slavery & Cotton – History of Memphis TN
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Negroes in Tennessee
- Little is known concerning the coming of the first Negroes to Tennessee, but there is reason to believe that they were in the territory much earlier than is commonly supposed. It is probable that Negroes were with De Soto when he camped near the present site of Memphis in 1541, since they were known to have been with him when he left Spain the previous year. A century later the French are reported to have sent “an army of 1,200 white men and double that number of red and black men who took up their quarters in Fort Assumption, on the bluff of Memphis.” The next Negro to set foot on Tennessee soil seems to have been with Colonel James Smith and a group of Long Hunters who explored the Cumberland country in 1766. Known to history merely as “Jim” this “mulatto lad” inspired a stanza in Colonel Smith’s diary. Another “negro fellow” accompanied James Robertson in 1779 when he came down from the Holston Settlement to the site of what is now Nashville.
- The new settlers brought Negroes with them and by 1790, when the first census was taken, there were 3,417 slaves in the Territory. Six years later, when Tennessee became a State, there were 10,613 Negroes in a population of 77,282. As a result of the invention of the cotton gin and the rapid growth of the cotton industry, slavery was widely expanded between 1790 and 1835. By 1840 Tennessee had 183,057 slaves whose per capita value was about $550 as compared to less than $100 in 1790. – TENNESSEE: A GUIDE TO THE STATE – New Deal Network – Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
Google Books
Tennessee's historic landscapes: a traveler's guide By Carroll Van West - Google Books
- Fulton & Sons Cotton – Flickr
- History of Memphis – City of Memphis dot org
Remembering Memphis – Don’t Forget About Elvis & Dusty – Crossing the Mississippi – August 2009
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The Kings Court - CLICK FOR EXTENSIVE DETAILS ON THIS RECORDING
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) – I Forgot to Remember to Forget – Recorded in Memphis TN, 1955
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Dusty in Memphis – Don’t Forget About Me – Recorded in Memphis, September 1968
Original cover European release on Phillips records
Original liner notes from 'Dusty in Memphis'
Rhino re-release with BONUS TRACKS!
Rhino Records re-release
- Dusty in Memphis – Dusty Springfield (Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien – 16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999) – Wikipedia
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
Pyramid Arena - CLICK FOR WIKIPEDIA LINK © Vincenzo Aiosa
Featured Fade – Morse Drayage & Warehouse Co – Portland OR – Fred King
Portland Oregon © Fred King - Bluestar 2012
In the shipping industry and logistics, drayage is the transport of goods a short distance, often as part of a longer overall move. A drayage trip can typically be completed in a single work shift. The term drayage is also used for the fee paid for such services.
The term originally meant “to transport by a sideless cart,” or dray. Such carts, pulled by dray horses, were used to move good between ships or railroad cars and factories, warehouses and shops. – Drayage – Wikipedia
Thanks Fred! @ bluestar2012
Other contribution on Fading Ad Blog by Fred King:
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr – Gandhi & Rustin
Fading Ad Campaign – © Frank H. Jump
Gandhi and Rustin
With assistance from the Quaker group the American Friends Service Committee and inspired by Gandhi’s success with non-violent activism, King visited Gandhi’s birthplace in India in 1959. The trip to India affected King in a profound way, deepening his understanding of non-violent resistance and his commitment to America’s struggle for civil rights. In a radio address made during his final evening in India, King reflected, “Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. In a real sense, Mahatma Gandhi embodied in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation.”
African American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin had studied Gandhi’s teachings. Rustin counseled King to dedicate himself to the principles of non-violence, served as King’s main advisor and mentor throughout his early activism, and was the main organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Rustin’s open homosexuality, support of democratic socialism, and his former ties to the Communist Party USA caused many white and African-American leaders to demand King distance himself from Rustin. – Wikipedia
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr & Bayard Rustin – deeppencil dot com
Before meeting King, Rustin was a founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) which was formed in 1942.
CORE was conceived as a Pacifist organization based on the writings of Henry David Thoreau and modeled after Mohandas Gandhi’s non-violent resistance against British rule in India.
These principles of non-violence became the backbone of the SCLC and the personal philosophy of Dr King.
- Martin Luther King Jr Had a Gay Mentor – deeppencil dot com
