My Aunt was an elevator girl in this building in the fifties. She was known as "the sweetheart of the Sterick" Her name was Nancy (Annie) Hogan. She got really ill with an unknown disease and the workers in the Sterick raised the money for my Granny Annie Hogan to sail to the US from Ireland to bring her home. They also raised money to buy drugs that were not available in Ireland at that time. I have some press cuttings and photographs. Nancy unfortunately died shortly after she returned home to Ireland at the young age of twenty five.

The "Post" I just read brought back some fond memories form long ago. As a young boy in Memphis in the fifties, one of the fun things to do was to challenge each other to see who could run up the stairs of the Sterick Building. I never knew her name but I remember the nice lady who ran the elevator that we rode back down.

I live down the street from this building and it's a shame to see it in its present condition. There has to be some entity out there who can bring this building back to it's former glory.

@ James, I'm so delighted to see your post re the Sterick Building. I wonder was it my Aunt that you remember. If as you say she was a nice lady it was definitely her!!! I never met her as I was born in 1956 but I've heard about her "niceness" all my life!
@ Donald, I hope to some day visit Memphis and the highlight of my trip would be to see this building that my Aunt wrote so eloquently about in her numerous letters back to Ireland! So hopefully it will be still there!!