Last week I posted about the dismantling/demolition of the Zippin Pippin. Jackson Baker wrote a story yesterday, Mulroy’s Salvage Mission Finally Succeeds: Green Bay to Get the Zippin’ Pippin in the Flyer. Apparently the deal is done to sell the Pippin to Green Bay for a park there, or maybe it’s just the “Concept” of […]
Midtown – The Mid-South Fairgrounds
The Memphis (or Tri-State, or Mid-South) Fairgrounds was established before the Civil War and was home to many regional fairs, most notably, the Mid-South Fair which moved to Tunica, MS in 2008. The fairgrounds, with it’s large and small exhibition buildings, livestock barns, the Liberty Bowl Stadium, the Mid-South Coliseum, and the last vestiges of […]
