A view of the block mentioned in the marker:
Speaking of fire, the photo below is of the interesting logo I saw on the Memphis Fire Department Fire Station #1's fire engine. It's a skull wearing a derby hat with a four leaf clover on the hat band and the Pyramid and bridge behind it. The skull menacingly says "Come On With It!", presumably to a fire threatening destruction. Station #1 is in the Pinch District which was one of the earliest neighborhoods in what is now the north side of downtown Memphis. Once inhabited by Irish, Jewish, Italian, Russian and Greek immigrants, the nickname for the neighborhood was "Pinch-gut" attributed to the poor, starving Irish population. The moniker Pinch endures to this day. I have not noticed station logos on other fire trucks around town but maybe there are a few.
Yesterday I happened to run across the item that Memphis photographer William Eggleston was the topic of an interesting All Things Considered show on NPR recently. His work is currently on exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
4 comments:
Very cool! The guys at Station #1 are the best, my office used to be right across from their station and they were extremely nice to the employees here.
oooh, cool to know all that..firefighters are awesome!! I did a 5k that started at the museum and got to walk around it, it was pretty cool
What an interesting piece of history. I'm fascinated by the skull logo, too. Btw, Eggleton is my surname!
Emily and Kembree - true - firefighter do tend to be really great people.
Welshcakes - small world!
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