Poplar Tunes

1960s

The Cotton Carnival Parade

Britling's Cafeteria next door to the Lowe's Palace Theater

The Enchanted Forest at Goldsmith's

Fashion Shows at Goldsmith's

Kress

The Planter's Peanut Shoppe on Main Street

The King Cotton Hotel had a downstairs lunchroom.

Gerber's had an upstairs sandwich shop.

Bry's (pronounced 'breeze') Department Store  (Main @ Poplar).  You could buy Christmas for the whole family for ten bucks.

Pop Tunes & Poplar Tunes let you listen to the records before you bought.

Round revolving restaurants on the top of the UP Building downtown and the Midtown Building at Watkins & Union.  That one became "2001" disco in the late 70s, back when 2001 seemed a long way off.

1970s

The Four Flames

2000s

Peabody Place

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