Check out those shoes on Elvis!
So this store opened in 1954, the year I was born.
My three strongest memories of Mempho from when I was little and visiting, besides my grandmother’s neighborhood, were Katz, the Purina mills (I can still smell them), and the bridge over the Mississippi.
As I got older (high school and beyond), add in the UP Bank’s revolving restaurant, the Nineteenth Century Club (this was a thang), and Isaac Hayes living several blocks away from my mother’s neighborhood, which was really, really, really, really white, lol. (They are a bit more woke now, but not much.)
Thanks for posting this!