YESTERDAY’S MEMPHIS                   $66.00 value at $39.95 
Goldsmith’s Department Store. 
Opened in 1870 Goldsmith’s Department Store was a shopping mecca in downtown Memphis. Today, the Center for Southern Folklore is located in a portion of the original store. Folks from Memphis and across the Mid-South would always shop in the downtown Memphis Store. This photograph is in the front of Goldsmiths at 119 S. Main Street.
Businessmen in The Pinch.
The area called The Pinch in the north part of downtown Memphis was home to many new Americans and a large African American Community. This picture taken in front of Peiser Tailoring Shop was taking around 1913. From left to right: The tailor, the dairy man, the postman, the Italian Restaurant owner, and the Irish policeman.
Memphis Castles Book. Bob Ferguson’s second edition of his book, formerly called Homes and Stores of Prominent Memphians, contains images and information of 200 homes in Memphis.