Circa 1960 it was quite a bustling city
One if my best friends lives in collierville & grew up in Germantown. She talks about all the wonderful things they would do in Memphis. She loved Oak Court Mall, as did I long ago, but that’s been ruined too. I taught in Holly springs & every spring we would take the kids to the Memphis zoo. It was great & safe because we were on buses & all together. I would never venture there with my husband......just not worth the risk. It’s amazing how a group of people intent in bad things have ruined a once great city.
One guy recently went to pay his respects to Lisa Marie Presley at Graceland & when he got back to his car he found a bag with several thousand dollars missing & some computer devices gone. The computer had a tracker, so the police retrieved his things quickly. It shouldn’t be this way. A cliche, but it is what it is now. And it ain’t good & it’s not fixable I believe.
I’m glad you have great memories!