Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately 1.8 miles. It is a significant location in the city’s history, as well as in the history of blues music.

Beale Street: 183 Beale St, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Beale Street was built on memories – good and bad. Beale Street’s heyday was in the roaring 20′s, when it took on a carnival atmosphere. The booming nightclubs, theaters, restaurants, stores, pawnshops and hot music thrived alongside gambling, drinking, prostitution, murder and voodoo.

Walking to Beale Street.

Map of the Memphis City

The Beale Street

Turn right at the street and walk the east side first.

End of the shops in this direction.  Turn back and go to the west side.

Facing the east direction

Came back to where I started and kept going to the east side.

This is the end of the shops on the street on the west side.

Turn around and go back to where I started.  This is rather a short street where shops are located.