WALKING ON BEALE STREET
Tourists today may know that Miss Polly’s serves up great chicken & waffles, and that B.B. King’s Blues Club serves up great live music… but they probably don’t know that Beale Street’s famous Blues City Café was once a Piggly Wiggly grocery store. To make your “Memphis Music Pilgrimage” even better, the Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum has teamed up with historian Dr. Richard Raichelson, author of “Beale Street Talks,” and ArtsMemphis, the city’s arts advocacy group, to launch historic walking tours of Beale Street for the first time ever. Discover where W.C. Handy wrote “Beale Street Blues” or where Bessie Smith walked the red carpet. Visitors can check out an MP3 audio guide from the Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum and accompanying map… and then start “walking in Memphis”! Rock ‘n’ Soul’s “Historic Walking Tour of Beale Street” costs $10 for adults, $8 for youth 5 – 17, and is available 7 days a week, between the hours of 10:00 am and 5:00 pm.