MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
The man who heard the flight to Memphis told his wife. "You certainly are not going to go to Graceland? She said angrily," You are a joke? I do not plan to go to Memphis unless you go to Graceland!
No, travelers - please do not go to Memphis without going to Graceland. Please see it all.
Memphis is a history, its history is music and a river. It means blues and lace, stickiness and elegance, beauty and difficult times. What will happen if a musical genius overcomes the toughest situation and deprives the poor 22-year-old boy in Tupelo, Mississippi, from Tupelo's house and goes out of God.
Memphis is America.
Before the Europeans came to the area, the Chicasaw Indians settled on the high cliff above the river, which became known as Mississippi. The area actually divides up and down the Mississippi, looking to the south towards the delta, Baysas, and what we consider deep south. The two rivers, the Mississippi and the wolf rivers gather. For these reasons, the area was an important and strategic place in front of the recorded history. In the mid 16th century, French people built fortress there 150 years after Soso Island came. English later appeared, in the 1800's Memphis was incorporated as a city, bearing the name of former capital Egypt. Currently, the population of the metropolitan area of Memphis is approximately 1 million, which is slightly smaller than that of Nashville's metropolitan area, but in real cities Memphis is the largest city in Tennessee.
Because of its strategic location, Memphis is a violent battlefield of the Civil War and historically captured by Allied Forces. The furious yellow fever epidemic continued, and it seemed as if the city did not recover for a while. But nevertheless, Memphis came to the city on a cliff and released hundreds of slaves who brought up the music with the work. Since then Memphis had a reputation for being a widely open and free-fashioned place, we urged those who were excited about freedom and happiness not to become depressed. They played music for themselves, but soon they discovered that others were listening to their music and having fun. Memphis became famous.
Memphis may be attributed to part of this history of race freedom and mixing which played an important role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Dr. Martin Luther King came to Memphis to support hygienic workers' strikes and was assassinated at Memphis on April 4, 1968. The motel where he was killed has recently become a national historic site.
The Graceland site is surprising in some ways what exactly what you can expect in some way. The mansion (and its language is not really an exaggeration in fact) stands on its own and is protected from an obvious commercial company. Ticket sale, gift shop, hype is on the other side of the four lane road, a small van takes the visitor back and forth. It remains exactly as it was when Elvis lived there. At least it was the last time he refitted it. It is luxurious and maybe some sticky. The kitchen told us is the center of the house, the everlasting flow of guests and hangers gathered is amazingly small and plain. We are told that Elvis wants to eat, but it seems that the fact that peanut butter and banana sandwiches are his favorite food is not designed as a masterpiece of cooking.
However, the hospitality, generosity, family and emotional love, which is the majority of Elvis Presley's legend, is clear anywhere in this iconic place.
Another place where rich proof of wealth is exhibited extravagantly is a luxurious lobby of Peabody Hotel of Union Avenue. Even if it is not a duck parade, you can make downtown worthwhile by looking at elegant shops, jewelry, and peabody, a work of art. Yes, we are saying "Duck Parade". If you do not know about that, we will not tell you anything to ruin it. Just living in the hotel penthouse at night, the duck spent the day in the lobby fountain, accompanied by a change in guard at Buckingham Palace, from the elevator to the elevator to the fountain, through the lobby twice a day ceremony . Do not miss it in Memphis!
And the place where music has begun Beale street and places that are still prosperous.
Here is the night life - some people talk about the life of Memphis. Night club after the night club, 30 of them in 3 blocks, each of them playing music you can not just hear anywhere else. Bruce, of course, there are not only music born here, but also jazz, rock and roll, rhythm, blues, gospel etc. Please choose your music and club. But if I go to BB Kings, I have ribs and I hope to stay late anywhere I go. Musicians do not start warming up until 10 years old.
I plan to stay a few days and it is a good idea to tour one day. Otherwise, where Elvis finds San Studio, which is the front of a small store that made a recording of "Fair, Mom", which was the beginning of a wild journey for one boy in the south I do not know. Cultural change nationwide.
This is just one example of what is waiting for you at Memphis - we do not mention the famous St. Louis. There are many famous sightseeing spots such as museum, rock and soul museum, mississippi museum, citizenship museum, art, opera. You will have to come and see for yourself - and "Y will come back, heah?"
