Comments On: Visiting Memphis in 1940? Then Use This Guide. by Vance Lauderdale

Re: Visiting Memphis in 1940? Then Use This Guide.

barf — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:25:48 -0600

"We" of course being Otp and the voices that have rented out the plentiful extra space found in their cranium.
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oldtimeplayer — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:51:26 -0600

Jeff, I and we were treated equally, some worse than others. So, using the term we, when it comes to memories of the good ole days are justified.
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Jeff — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:30:02 -0600

OTP, I find your point of view and memories of Memphis fascinating, but they might not get so many dislikes if they read more like personal memories. I don't mind the vitriol - they give your stories spice, but what I dislike is the metaphorical "we" in your recitals.
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oldtimeplayer — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:09:23 -0600

Oh! Only two dislikes so far.

The truth hurts, doesn't it?
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oldtimeplayer — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:27:13 -0600

My Brother lived in Orange Mound. I remember, from visits to his house, the golf course.
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Albin Miller — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:02:14 -0600

DANCING 'SEASON' at the Casino... was sponsored by the Memphis Park Commission which provided bandsor DJ music on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights during the Winter months. There was also two [horizontal] bars in the Men's Room, where we would occasionally sneak off during the dances to perform gymnastics.
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Albin Miller — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:52:02 -0600

You forgot Loew's Palace Theater..
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Midtown Mark — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:58:36 -0600

Like many have posted, the old Cherokee course was located between Prescott, Lamar and Sharpe St being the Northwest boundary. After it closed the property was sold off to businesses.
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ArlingtonPop — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:38:49 -0600

@ rick

Yes, indeed. Played many a hole of golf at Cherokee.
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rick — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:14:39 -0600

Jackson Baker is right about Lamar and So. Prescott being the location for the golf course.
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bgurl — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:27:14 -0500

One more update from the Vollintine Hills Historic District report:

Finally, in September 1944, a fundraising committee and a site selection committee were formed. At the
January 1945 membership meeting, a resolution was passed authorizing the board to construct a synagogue
and education building.
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bgurl — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:46:52 -0500

Midtown Beverly was absolutely correct. My father-in-law grew up on Hawthorne and learned how to play golf at the McLean-Vollentine golf club circa 1940.
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Michael Beck — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:26:43 -0600

Of course, Pigeon Roost Road is Lamar. It followed the ridge from Mississippi that the RR was built on.
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Jackson Baker — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:59:58 -0600

As a couple of others have reported awreddy, it was Cherokee Golf Course in the '50s and '60s, not Cherokee Trail Golf Course, and it was straight out Lamar. I believe anon has its whereabouts right.
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historynutt — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:22:35 -0600

Wasn't the Cherokee Golf Course built by the same gentleman that developed Wyndyke? I believe his name was Earl Dykema.
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anon — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:52:12 -0600

Cherokee Golf Course was near Lamar and Prescott. This was east of the Lamar Drive-In and the world-famous Whirlaway Club.
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Majorppurple — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:20:39 -0600

The Twentieth Century Club did indeed have a swimming pool. When I was growing up in Midtown in the 1950s, we purchased passes for the whole summer to swim in the outdoor pool that took up the entire back yard behind the club.
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Vance Lauderdale — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:29:12 -0600

Okay, here's what I know. For one thing, Pigeon Roost Road is the old name for Lamar, since it originally led to a clump of woods outside of town where millions of passenger pigeons roosted before we hunted them to extinction.
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vwbug521@myway.com — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:16:32 -0600

... and did you have to get a license for the dancing season?

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warbirdali — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:49:03 -0600

The main thing that intrigues me: There was a dancing season? When and why only a season?
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vwbug521@myway.com — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:10:09 -0600

Could the Cherokee Trail Golf Course have been at the site of the Cherokee Bowling Lanes on Lamar? You would be going southeast on Lamar from Parkway (or am I completely turned around?).
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Jeff — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:42:33 -0600

I never knew Pigeon Roost Rd. flew that far north. And Barf is correct, I just checked on Google Maps — 3 miles east of Parkway and Lamar is Audubon Park.
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barf — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:29:14 -0600

3 miles east of Parkway and Lamar — sounds like the vicinity of Audubon Park to me.

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Vance Lauderdale — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:56:37 -0600

I bet you're right, Beverly. That whole neighborhood definitely has a more modern look and "feel" than the areas surrounding it.
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Midtown Beverly — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:40:03 -0600

I recall my mom saying that the neighborhood to the east and north of the old Baron Hirsch Synagogue on Vollentine used to be a golf course, and if you look at it, the houses in that area are all sort of late '40s-early '50s suburban style, unlike the 1920s- and '30s-era bungalows that dominate that part of Midtown. So the timing and location would be about right for her to have been referring to the McLean-Vollintine Golf Club.

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