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The caption from this 1970s postcard reads:
MEMPHIS, MID-SOUTH’S LARGEST CITY. This view of Memphis, as seen from the Arkansas approach of the Hernando DeSoto Bridge, shows the “new look” of the Memphis skyline.
Click to enlarge. C. B. S. Card Service, 501 Franklin Drive, Paris, Tenn. 38242
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The caption from this 1970s postcard reads:
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. Main Street looking South. At right is the Everett R. Cook Convention & Exhibition Center, one of the finest facilities of its kind in the nation.
Click photo to enlarge.
Postcard Printed By: C. B. S. Card Service, 501 Franklin Drive, Paris, Tn. 38242
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Before the Hernando Desoto Bridge was built,
when Mud Island still had an airport. |
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The Holiday Inn Rivermont (now Rivermark Condos)
Riverside Drive runs behind the building. |
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The Rivermont Looking North
Riverside Drive in the center, the South Bluffs area on the right. |
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The Memphis riverfront with the bridge approaches & The Rivermont in the foreground.
The curving road is Channel 3 Drive, and the building to the right is the Channel 3 Studios.
The brown-roofed building next to the bridges is the Unitarian Church of the River.
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An earlier photo shows the I-55 interchange under construction.
Channel 3 has not yet built its studios, but the
Church of the River is already in place. |
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In the early 1970s, construction begins on the Arkansas side
of the Hernando Desoto Bridge. |
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Downtown Memphis in the early 1970s, with the Hernando Desoto Bridge
under construction on the far left
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The photos above were taken by Memphis photographer Bill Speidel (1928-2007) and are used by permission of his family.
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