When 11,000 Memphians Went to Wrestling on Monday Night
Monday night in Memphis once meant wrestling. And on August 16, 1976, nearly 11,000 people showed up. A crowd of 10,962 packed the Mid-South Coliseum for a card headlined by Jerry Lawler challenging Jack Brisco for the Southern Heavyweight Championship. Lawler won. Those attendance numbers help explain something difficult to appreciate today: professional wrestling wasn’t […]
Beale Street Before the Comeback
Look at Beale Street today and its future can seem inevitable. It wasn’t. A photograph taken at Beale and Second in the early 70’s captures a very different street. Fifty years ago, the famous entertainment district was caught between its celebrated past and an uncertain future.