Thursday, November 18, 2010
Big Digs, Now and Then
Posted By John Branston on Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Whatever you may think of the wisdom of those projects or of the Pyramid itself, there is some excitement in the anticipation of what's to come.
The Pyramid groundbreaking was called The Big Dig and featured a giant lighted shovel dropping to the ground from a crane. Thanks to Jimmy Ogle of Memphis Talks and Tours for the pictures below. I remember the night well. There was a huge crowd and my young children and I nearly got crushed against a fence because someone allowed a bandstand to be set up smack in the middle of Front Street.
Ogle also took the pictures of the observation deck
Finally, on a sort of related note, is there another city and arena in America that hosted more basketball fans than Memphis and FedEx Forum in the last week? Two Grizzlies games and two Tigers games in six nights, attended by more than 50,000 people. Not bad. If you missed it, here is my colleague Chris Herrington's blog on that subject.
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