{"id":2448,"date":"2008-08-10T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2008-08-10T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T18:28:08","slug":"pat-os-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/10\/pat-os-closes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat O’s closes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night was the last night for Pat O’Brien’s on Beale Street… they’ve closed down and served their last Hurricane.\u00a0 This WMC-TV article<\/a> hints at the future of the building.\u00a0 Local businessman\/politician Joe Cooper (you remember him from the Main Street Sweeper scandal that sent Rickey Peete back to prison) wants to turn the place into a hotel and restaurant.\u00a0 The hotel would be five stories, all suites, some with balconies overlooking Beale, similar to hotel balconies that overlook Bourbon Street in New Orleans.\u00a0 Cooper’s partner in the venture is none other than professional wrestler Jerry “The King” Lawler.<\/p>\n

Speaking of wrestling, this morning I’ve been reading an article on Sputnik Monroe<\/a>, a wrestler who in the ’50s was even more popular in Memphis than Jerry Lawler is today.\u00a0 Monroe played a key role in race relations in the city.\u00a0 Once he became the town’s biggest draw and was selling out the Ellis Auditorium on a weekly basis, he went to the promoters with a demand:\u00a0 Get rid of the “colored section.”\u00a0 In those says seating at sports events was segregated, and African-Americans were restricted to the nosebleed balcony seats.\u00a0 Monroe demanded that blacks be allowed to sit anywhere they wanted in the auditorium, or he wouldn’t perform.\u00a0 This paved the way for integration at other sporting events and nightclubs.<\/p>\n

Whew!\u00a0 Rough start to the day, after my trivia team cashed in its $460 worth of gift certificates last night.\u00a0 We’ll start over at zero on Tuesday.\u00a0 I missed brunch again.\u00a0 Will head to the Saucer about 2.\u00a0 Going to take the laptop with me so I can work on my latest website once I get done beating Pete at pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night was the last night for Pat O’Brien’s on Beale Street… they’ve closed down and served their last Hurricane.\u00a0 This WMC-TV article hints at the future of the building.\u00a0 Local businessman\/politician Joe Cooper (you remember him from the Main Street Sweeper scandal that sent Rickey Peete back to prison) wants to turn the place … Continue reading “Pat O’s closes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}