My friends Dennis and Mary Pat were in town this past weekend for the Memphis Marathon. While they were here, they did some Christmas shopping, and reminded me of a very good place to pick up quality, inexpensive gifts: the Peanut Shop on Main Street.<\/p>\n
I’ve shopped there in the past for gifts to take home with me to Little Rock. They have a huge selection of nuts, chocolates, and candy, and can package your purchases in decorative tins. The people who run the shop are SO nice; they still ask about my mother four years after I first shopped there for a gift for her. They’re known to remember people’s names a year later. If you want to support a Downtown neighborhood business that has been part of the community for years and years, it would be hard to think of a better one than the Peanut Shop.<\/p>\n
This would be a great place to go if you’re a small business owner and you need to send out small holiday gifts to your most valued customers.<\/p>\n
The shop is open until 5 weekdays, and (I think) 5:30 Saturdays. Closed Sundays. It’s located on the Main Street Mall between Madison and Monroe, next to Court House Deli and across from Brinkley Plaza and Felicia Suzanne’s.<\/p>\n
In other news: My friends Dennis and Mary Pat told me the marathon raised a whopping $2.8 million for St. Jude. I know it’s a little inconvenient to have streets closed and people screaming at AutoZone Park at 7 AM, but you know what? If it raises almost three million for sick kids it’s worth it.<\/p>\n
If you’re on Twitter, be careful when clicking on goo.gl shortened links the next few days – it’s a malware attack. More details here.<\/a><\/p>\n Big game on ESPN tonight: The #14 Memphis Tigers take on the #4 Kansas Jayhawks in the Jimmy V Classic. I hope the Tigers bring their A-game tonight and have learned how to rebound in the past couple of days. A win vs. Kansas would look real good to the NCAA tournament committee in March.<\/p>\n I’ll be at trivia at the Saucer (7 PM start time), but will be very distracted by the game. Usually I stand on the rail facing the trivia guy (whoever it is this week, Pete or Mikey), but this week I may have to stand on the opposite side of the rail so I can look at a TV. Go Tigers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My friends Dennis and Mary Pat were in town this past weekend for the Memphis Marathon. While they were here, they did some Christmas shopping, and reminded me of a very good place to pick up quality, inexpensive gifts: the Peanut Shop on Main Street. I’ve shopped there in the past for gifts to take … Continue reading “Shop local for holiday gifts: Visit the Peanut Shop on Main Street”<\/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\/8451"}],"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=8451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8452,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451\/revisions\/8452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}