Memphis has always been one of my favourite US cities to spend time in.\u00a0 It has history and character.\u00a0 Poverty.\u00a0 Joy.\u00a0 Life.\u00a0 Laughter.\u00a0 It was stinkin’ hot in summer (it’s the humidity that kills you) and (by Canadian standards) warm in winter.\u00a0 A trip to Memphis always put a smile on my face.<\/p>\n
Back in the day (1998-2001), I used to travel to Collierville to work out of the FedEx Tech Centre a few times a year. I always stayed in Memphis.\u00a0 It was a short drive to get to work and a few times I brought Drew down to vacation while I worked.\u00a0 We’d wander Beale Street, visit the Belle, view amazing Russian and Asian art exhibits, wander the Pink Palace, and always stop in to see the Peabody ducks.\u00a0 We’d feed the beer drinking goats and I’d collect<\/em> more beers at the Flying Saucer.\u00a0 Nights would be spent visiting BB King’s and listening to Ruby.\u00a0 When we were lucky, BB King himself would be seated on a stool at the door welcoming everyone to his bar.\u00a0 On occassion, we’d stop in at Isaac Hayes restaurant for a meal.<\/p>\n On one of the trips Drew went to Isaac Hayes’ restaurant for lunch.\u00a0 The restaurant was nearly empty and part way through the meal Mr. Hayes himself came out to talk to all of the guests.\u00a0 He traveled from table to table, sitting down and spending a few minutes talking to everyone.\u00a0 Then, he wandered on stage and performed for a few minutes before heading back (to the kitchen?).\u00a0 He was the epitome of a gentleman and made the time spent in his restaurant special in a number of ways.<\/p>\n With Isaac Hayes passing the city shall seem a little darker on our next visit.\u00a0 I am thrilled we’ll always have the memories.\u00a0 He will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Memphis has always been one of my favourite US cities to spend time in.\u00a0 It has history and character.\u00a0 Poverty.\u00a0 Joy.\u00a0 Life.\u00a0 Laughter.\u00a0 It was stinkin’ hot in summer (it’s the humidity that kills you) and (by Canadian standards) warm in winter.\u00a0 A trip to Memphis always put a smile on my face. Back in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}