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| This is the Visitor Center but was the Fordyce Bathhouse |
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| Individual Baths would have looked like this. The dress was like the ones that the attendants would wear during treatments. |
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| Your own private power washer Youch! |
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| These got out of order, but this is the door into the Stax Record Shop. Know what they are? |
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| Mural on the side of a building in Memphis Music district |
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| Stax recording Museum. This was a Neighborhood hangout for Issac Hayes, Aretha Franklin, B.B.King and Lou Rawles. Black and white artists came together here but then Martin Luther King was killed in Memphis. The racial wedge changed everything. |
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| More murals |
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| Issac Hayes Cadillac! Just a touch of Gold. An Eldorado! |
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| The Sun Studio is where Elvis recorded. Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and even U-2 recorded here |
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| Inside the studio |
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| Yes, the same picture....couldn't figure out how to delete. |
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| This is the picture I wanted with Bill sitting at the bar where the musicians sat. |
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| These four famous singers jammed together one night. It was the only time these four were together. They are Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. |
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| Bill singing on the same microphone that elvis used. |
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| This mural is on a building back in Hot Springs Arkansas. |
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| This free parking lot in Hot Springs closes at 10:00 p.m.and they discourage cars from re-entering. They aren't kidding. |
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| Personal Steam Bath At the Fordyce. |
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| Don't even want to know what this table is for. Actual for massage therapy! |
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| Quapaw Bath House |
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| Lamar Bath House |
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| This is 180 degree water spray at the spa |
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| Buck Staff Spa |
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| These are filling stations for hot water from the springs. Anyone can take water. There are cold springs filling stations thru out the area for all people to benefit from the mineral water. |
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| Hot Springs Vents in the promenade area |
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| Water can be 142 degrees |
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| Steam Rising |
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| Original view of Bath House Row |
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| Years Later after landscaping |
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| Another Bar on Beale Street in Memphis. |
Love the pictures! We were in Hot Springs four years ago and were amazed at the history.
ReplyDeleteWe are currently in Catalina, Arizona and working our way back toward Big Bend in Texas, then the Gulf Coast.
Safe travels to you this winter!