Showing posts with label Living Downtown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Living Downtown. Show all posts
Thursday, January 18, 2024

Lamar Disco

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 Stage and dance floor, Lamar Theater/Disco, Downtown Jackson, 1979
Saturday, August 26, 2023

Signs and Omens

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 Ken Stribling messaged me last night with corrections about a piece I wrote at 3:00 a.m.  What would I do without friends who can’t sleep e...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

Third Graders in the Light House

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Because I'm old, I take a diuretic to make sure my body doesn't retain water because my body works about as well as a 1982 Ford.  It...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Smith Park Fence

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In the original 1820's map for Jackson, roads were set up on a square grid pattern, starting with the intersection of Capitol Street and...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Where Do The Children Play?

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Our mom's generation tells us about how they would put on starched cotton dresses with half a dozen petticoats and white kidd gloves and...
Saturday, April 23, 2022

Mississippi Mummy

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In the 1920s, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History purchased an extensive collection of Native American artifacts from Colon...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

West Capitol Historic District

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Application for Inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places Oct. 30, 1979 West Capitol Historic District Jackson MS   Origina...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Movie Nicknames For Jackson Buildings

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Ghostbusters Building For years, Jacksonians nicknamed the Standard Life Building, the "Ghostbusters Building" after the 1984 come...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Vintage View of Downtown Jackson

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This image is from a post card circa 1940 showing a good view of Capitol and Pearl streets with the Heidelberg Hotel in the lower right in t...