{"id":610,"date":"2006-10-12T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=610"},"modified":"2006-10-12T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T23:16:00","slug":"thursday-update-sixties-book-my-photos-in-national-trust-preservation-magazine-progressive-dinner-downtown-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/12\/thursday-update-sixties-book-my-photos-in-national-trust-preservation-magazine-progressive-dinner-downtown-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update: Sixties book, my photos in National Trust Preservation magazine, progressive dinner downtown, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was no lunchtime post today because I went to Bookstar and Old Navy in my lunch hour. At Bookstar I bought The Sixties Chronicle<\/span>, a 480-page oversized book filled with pictures, people and events of the 1960s, organized by year. Here’s a link to the book’s listing on Amazon<\/a>, but if you’re in Memphis you’d be better off buying it at the Poplar\/Highland Bookstar, which has it on sale for $14.98. Looking forward to reading it… I’ve always been fascinated with the Sixties. No other decade in the past 100 years has seen American society and values change so much.<\/p>\n

Books like this one are among the reasons why I’ve gotten so good at trivia. The book will have a picture and a paragraph about a notable person from the 1960s… I’ll want to know more and search for that person on Wikipedia<\/a>. And then from that person’s article, I’ll probably jump off to several other Wikipedia articles and learn even more. Man… if Wikipedia had been around 10 years ago, by now I’d be ready to become a contestant on Jeopardy and make a fortune.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, The National Trust<\/a> e-mailed me. They asked if they could use some of my photos of last Friday’s Downtown Memphis fire in Preservation, their online magazine. I checked ’em out and they sound like a really good organization – “The National Trust provides leadership, education, advocacy and resources to save America’s diverse historic places and revitalize our communities,” it says on their site – so I gave them my permission. A few hours later, the magazine article was already up – check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crap. I gotta run to Walgreens before they close. Hang on…<\/p>\n

…Okay, back. Walgreens had the Beatles’ “Eight Days a Week” and Stevie Wonder’s “I Was Made to Love Her” playing over the PA. If they keep playing such good music, I’m gonna have to start going in there just to hang out, even if I don’t need to buy anything.<\/p>\n

As I was walking back, I noticed a flyer for an upcoming progressive dinner, to be held on November 1st at four of the finest restaurants Downtown – McEwen’s, Stella, Grill 83, and Felicia Suzanne’s. Diners will have appetizers at one restaurant, entrees at another, dessert at another… you get the idea. Kind of expensive ($85 per person + tax + tip) but there’s no doubt you’d be eating some outstanding food. See the pic below for details.<\/p>\n

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… and that’s about all for now. Oh, the architect in charge of redeveloping the big white tower in Court Square e-mailed to say that it is indeed Lincoln-American with an “n,” not Lincoln-America.<\/p>\n

It’s cold outside and that’s going to give me a perfect excuse not to go out and drink umpteen beers and feel like ass the next morning like I usually do. Besides, I want to read my new book. Back tomorrow (probably) with more to say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"