© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Other Pine Sash & Door postings:
Jack LaLanne Joins Dead Homophobe’s Club
Advocate
Incensed at the growing visibility of gay men in Los Angeles, the former king of television (Jack LaLanne) announced in 1979 that he planned to march down a one-mile stretch of Sunset Boulevard with a 350-pound barbell on his shoulders in order to protest the “damn queers and homos and little boy prostitutes” who has “taken over Hollywood.” – Towleroad
I distinctly remember hearing this on the news when I was a teenager, around the time of Anita Bryant’s anti-gay rants. I was disappointed.
Other Dead Homophobes:
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
