Memphis, Tennessee

See also Memphis Mafia. (WC)--Wild Card berth to NFC playoffs
(DT)-- NFC West/NFC South Division Title.
. The Saints current lease at the Louisiana Superdome has an exit clause that would allow the team to leave New Orleans. Other. In May, 2005 the Associated Press reported that Saints representatives were meeting with city representatives from Albuquerque, New Mexico and San Antonio, Texas about the possibility of moving the team to one of those cities. Military. Nevertheless, the four-game win streak to end the season left many Saints fans optimistic about the team's future prospects.

Sports Figures. Louis Rams beat the New York Jets in a thrilling overtime game the Saints were eliminated. Jurists, Politicians and Activists. In week 17, the Saints defeated division rivals Carolina; however, the Saints needed other results to break their way and when the St. Businesspeople. At that point Haslett's job appeared to be in jeopardy; however, he managed to pull the team together and put on a three-game win streak, leaving the Saints in playoff contention in the final week of the season. Actors, Directors and Musicians. The 2004 season started poorly for the Saints, as they went 2-4 through their first six games and 4-8 through their first twelve games.

Other museums in the area include:. In 2003 the Saints again missed the playoffs after finishing 8-8. Along with the legendary Stax Sound, the museum also spotlights the music of Muscle Shoals, Motown, Hi and Atlantic. The Saints failed to make the playoffs in 2001 and 2002, although in the latter year they had the distinction of beating the eventual Super Bowl XXXVII winners Tampa Bay in both of their regular season meetings. The museum is home to a broad collection of artifacts, photographs, exhibits, commentary, and music. Current coach Jim Haslett has held the post since 2000, in which year he took the team to the playoffs but lost to the Minnesota Vikings a week after besting the St. Louis Rams for the team's first ever playoff win. Also, there is the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. Another playoff berth would follow in 1990, and the club's first division title came in 1991.

The Children's Museum of Memphis features many interactive exhibits, including a simulated grocery store, a wood skyscraper maze, and full-scale models of a fire truck and an airplane fuselage. That combination provided the Saints with their first-ever winning record and playoff appearance, going 12-3 in the 1987 season, which had one fewer game than normal due to a players' strike. A smaller art museum, the Dixion Gallery and Gardens focuses on impressionism and has several works by Monet, Degas and Renoir. Current Saints owner Tom Benson acquired the franchise in 1985, and hired Jim Finks as general manager and Jim Mora as head coach. The Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park, founded in 1916, serves as the region's major art museum. In 1980, the Saints lost their first 14 games, prompting fans to design paper bags to wear over their heads to the team's home games; the bags rendered the club's name as the "'Aints" rather than the "Saints," and this practice then spread rapidly, first to fans of other poorly-performing teams within the NFL, and ultimately to those of other American team sports as well, and has become a firmly-established custom throughout the United States. was assassinated. Their first season record was 3-11, and they could not manage to even finish as high as second in their division until 1979.

Memphis is home to the National Civil Rights Museum, located in the former Lorraine Motel, where the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Despite a 94 yard opening kickoff return for a touchdown by John Gilliam, the Saints lost their first game 27-13 to the Los Angeles Rams. A month long festival, Memphis in May, is held each year to host the city's largest events like the Beale Street Music Festival, the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest and the Sunset Symphony. became the majority stockholder, and the team was named the Saints on 9 January 1967, since the franchise had been granted to the Saints on All Saints' Day. There are several art galleries in Memphis, including, most prominently, the Dixon Gallery. Mecom, Jr. Opera Memphis, the region's opera company, performs at the Clark Opera Memphis Center in East Memphis. John W.

Ballet Memphis, which is the region's only major ballet company, performs at The Orpheum Theatre. New Orleans was granted an NFL franchise on 1 November 1966. The Memphis area is home to many of West Tennessee's larger arts and culutral organizations, such as the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, which performs at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Memphis. The New Orleans Saints are a National Football League team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Carnival salutes various aspects of Memphis and its industries, and is reigned over by the current year's secretly selected King & Queen of Carnival. Sam Mills. Carnival Memphis (formerly known as the Memphis Cotton Carnival), is a series of parties and festivities staged every year by the Carnival Memphis Association and its member krewes (similar to that of Mardi Gras) during the early summer. Pat Swilling.

Jude Classic, a PGA Tour golf tournament. Rickey Jackson. Also part of Memphis in May is the FedEx St. Morten Andersen. Each year, the city honors a foreign country, and each weekend hosts a special event, including the World Championship Barbeque Cooking Contest and the Beale Street Music Festival. Archie Manning. The Mid-South Fair comes to the city every fall, and every May there is the Memphis in May. Tom Dempsey.

There is Libertyland Amusement Park and the adjacent Liberty Bowl and Memphis Children's Museum, Mud Island, Detour Memphis - an art and performing space, Lichterman Nature Center, the Pink Palace Museum, The Pyramid, The Memphis Zoo, the Memphis Queen riverboat. Doug Atkins 81. King used to play his guitar, and occasionally still appears at a club bearing his name and partly owned by him. Jim Taylor 31. Blues fans can head down to Beale Street, where a young B.B. Darren Howard. Other famous musicians who got their start at Sun include Johnny Cash, Rufus Thomas, Charlie Rich, Howlin' Wolf, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Charles Grant.

Rock and roll is located in the city also. Deuce McAllister. Sun studios was where Elvis first recorded "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin". Joe Horn. Tourists come from all over the world to see Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley. Aaron Brooks. Out of the total population, 30.1% of those under the age of 18 and 15.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. Jim Finks.

20.6% of the population and 17.2% of families are below the poverty line. Louis Rams; 34-16 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. The per capita income for the city is $17,838. 2000 season: 31-28 win over the St. Males have a median income of $31,236 versus $25,183 for females. 1992 season: 36-20 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. The median income for a household in the city is $32,285, and the median income for a family is $37,767. 1991 season: 27-20 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.

For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 84.9 males. 1990 season: 16-6 loss to the Chicago Bears. For every 100 females there are 89.8 males. 1987 season: 44-10 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. The median age is 32 years. 2004 8-8. In the city the population is spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who are 65 years of age or older. 2003 8-8.

The average household size is 2.52 and the average family size is 3.18. 2002 9-7. 30.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. 2001 7-9. There are 250,721 households out of which 31.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.1% are married couples living together, 23.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 36.8% are non-families. 2000 10-6 (DT). 2.97% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. 1999 3-13.

The racial makeup of the city is 34.41% White, 61.41% African American, 0.19% Native American, 1.46% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.45% from other races, and 1.04% from two or more races. 1998 6-10. There are 271,552 housing units at an average density of 375.4/km² (972.2/mi²). 1997 6-10. The population density is 898.6/km² (2,327.4/mi²). 1996 3-13. As of the census² of 2000, there are 650,100 people, 250,721 households, and 158,455 families residing in the city. 1995 7-9.

Slightly over 80% of office space in the city is occupied. 1994 7-9. Memphis as a whole contains about twenty million square feet (2,000,000 m²) of office space, with the downtown area containing only around four million square feet (400,000 m²). 1993 8-8. Memphis' Division of Light, Gas and Water ("MLGW") is one of the largest municipal utitilites in the United States. 1992 12-4 (WC). Because of its status as the primary hub for FedEx, Memphis International Airport is currently the world's busiest cargo airport in terms of tonnage. 1991 11-5 (DT).

It is also the headquarters of FedEx shipping. 1990 8-8 (WC). Memphis is a center of manufacture of textiles, heating equipment, pianos, and automobile and truck parts. 1989 9-7. Public transportation in the Memphis area is provided by the Memphis Area Transit Authority (http://www.matatransit.com), which provides the area with buses and a downtown trolley system that is also in the process of expanding into a regional system. 1988 10-6. The future interstates of I-22 and I-69 are also planned to converge into the Memphis area. 1987 12-3 (WC).

The interstates of I-40 and I-55 (along with rail lines) cross the Mississippi at Memphis into the state of Arkansas. 1986 7-9. Interstate highways I-40, its spur highway I-240 and I-55 are the main freeways in the Memphis area. 1985 5-11. The Memphis metopolitan area encompasses the counties of Fayette, Tipton, and Shelby in Tennessee, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica in Mississippi, and Crittenden in Arkansas. 1984 7-9. Census. 1983 8-8.

The Memphis metropolitan area has a populuation of 1,195,977, according to the 2000 U.S. 1982 4-5. Memphis is the primary city of a metropolitan region including parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. 1981 4-12. Major Memphis parks include Tom Lee Park, Audubon Park, Overton Park and the Memphis Botanic Garden. 1980 1-15. The total area is 5.24% water. 1979 8-8.

723.4 km² (279.3 mi²) of it is land and 40.0 km² (15.4 mi²) of it is water. 1978 7-9. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 763.4 km² (294.8 mi²). 1977 3-11. Memphis is located at 35°7'3" North, 89°58'16" West (35.117365, -89.971068)¹. 1976 4-10. See also: List of mayors of Memphis. 1975 2-12.

There has been in recent years the idea thrown around of the potential of the merger of county government of Shelby County and City of Memphis into a metropolitan government similar to that in Nashville. 1974 5-9. Herenton served for 12 years as the superintendent of Memphis City Schools. 1973 5-9. Prior to his election, Dr. 1972 2-11-1. He was elected for the first time in 1991, when he became Memphis' first black mayor. 1971 4-8-2.

Herenton is currently serving his fourth consecutive term as Mayor. 1970 2-11-1. Dr. 1969 5-9. Herenton. 1968 4-9-1. W. 1967 3-11.

W. The current mayor of Memphis is Dr. This plan provides for nine districts, seven with one representative each and two districts with three representatives each. In 1995, the council adopted a new district plan which changed council positions to all districts.

The new city charter provided for the election of a mayor and thirteen council members, six elected at large from throughout the city and seven elected from geographic districts. Since 1966, Memphis has been governed by the "weak mayor" form of mayor-council government. "Boss" Crump. H.

From the 1910s to the 1950s, Memphis was a hotbed of machine politics under the direction of E. In 1897, Memphis' pyramid-shaped pavilion was a conspicuous part of the Tennessee Centennial exposition. A yellow fever epidemic in 1870 greatly reduced the population for many years thereafter. At the conclusion of the Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862 during the American Civil War, Union forces captured Memphis from Confederate control.

The city was founded in 1819 and incorporated as a city in 1826. The French built Fort Prudhomme in the vicinity. The Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, is believed to have visited what is now the Memphis area. Memphis was settled by the Chickasaw tribe.

. Memphis is on the Lower Chickasaw Bluff above the Mississippi River, at the mouth of the Wolf River. King. B.

Memphis was home to Elvis Presley and is home to B. The city is particularly known for blues music and barbecue. (This makes Memphis the largest city but second largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed by Metropolitan Nashville). The greater Memphis metropolitan area had a population of 1,195,977.

As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 650,100 within the city limits, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, United States. Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, of which it is the county seat. 35°7'3" N
89°58'16" W
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650,100.
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William Eggleston (Author). Shelby Foote (Author). Richard Halliburton (explorer and author). Ric Flair (professional wrestling) was born in Memphis, but was adopted in infancy by a couple in the Twin Cities and grew up there.

Jerry Lawler (professional wrestling)