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Continuing the Memphis in May series...

We didn't just listen to music, drink and eat a bunch of unhealthy foods in Memphis, we actually expanded our horizons with museums, shopping and a combination of the two - visits to antique shops. The most interesting one was also the most dirty and decrepit one - at least to me. I like to dig around, discover things in boxes that maybe got past the purveyor or were lost to all until I uncovered them. Not often you can do that in an antique store, especially in as highly traveled a place as Front St. in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. This place was like that. It specialized more in architectural antiquities, I figure this place has a crew of several men that go into those old, Civil War-era homes that are falling down in the slums and filling trucks with all the useful and interesting items before the places are bulldozed to the ground. There were weathered doors, parts of porches, and as you can see here, tons of old door knobs of every sort.

I hadn't seen any pictures of groups of door knobs here, there are several with one or two - usually still on the door - I have uploaded a couple of those, myself. Maybe you need one of these - I can pick it up for you when I go back down there. That would be a good excuse to spend another weekend in Memphis drinking and carousing the blues!

Anyway, I thought I would include this culturally significant photo into this series, just so you can get the fully rounded Memphis experience...

Have a nice Tuesday, since yesterday was a holiday I have a short week. Doesn't make me feel like going to work any more than usual, though!