Memorial Day Downtown

It was a lazy day downtown. I spent a little time around the park across the street from the Ornamental Metal Museum. It's easy to forget about this place since it's tucked away to the south of the old bridge. No one was around and it was very quiet and beautiful. To me there has always been a kind of surreal quality about the site of the museum; hence it's the perfect place to think about the past. The pictures below are close ups of the decorative metal objects on the museum gates.

Georgeous, huge magnolia tree.

What we call the "old bridge" is officially the Memphis-Arkansas Memorial Bridge (1949).

The Harahan Bridge (1916) carries two rail lines across the Mississippi River and is next to the Memphis Arkansas Memorial Bridge as well as the Frisco Bridge (1892), not pictured.