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Monday
Sep 27, 2010
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Peabody Hotel
Sunday
Sep 26, 2010
Peabody Hotel
History
Inside the Peabody
The original Peabody Hotel was built by Robert Campbell Brinkley in 1869. Before it opened, Brinkley found out about the death of George Peabody. Out of respect for Peabody, who contributed much to the South, he named his new hotel "The Peabody".
The original Peabody Hotel, located at the corner of Main and Monroe streets, was highly successful. The former President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis resided there in 1870 when he worked in Memphis as president of an insurance company. The original Peabody Hotel closed in 1923. The current Peabody Hotel building, on Union Avenue, was built in 1925 on the previous site of the Fransioli Hotel, which looked just like the original Peabody Hotel. Designed by Chicago architect Walter W. Ahlschlager, the Italian Renaissance building holds historical and cultural significance; it has been said that the Mississippi Delta "begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel (in Memphis) and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg".
Prior to the mid-1960s, alcoholic beverages were sold in Tennessee only as sealed bottles in licensed liquor stores. The Hotel Peabody had a bar, The Creel, for its patrons on those days. Patrons would bring a bottle, acquired elsewhere, into The Creel, and the bartender would tag the bottle for later retrieval. The bartender would then mix drinks from the patron's bottle on request.
The Peabody again closed in the early 1970s, generally an era of urban blight for many American cities. The Jack Belz family purchased the hotel from the county in 1975 for 0,000 and spent the next several years and ,000,000 renovating the landmark structure. The grand reopening in 1981 is widely considered in Memphis as a major stimulus and inspiration for the downtown revitalization that followed and still continues.
Similar Peabody Hotels are operated by the Peabody Hotel Group in Little Rock, Arkansas and Orlando, Florida. The Peabody Hotel Group Brand Management Division owns and operates properties under different brand names in Massachusetts, Tennessee, South Carolina and Arkansas.
The Peabody Hotel in Memphis is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Peabody Ducks
The Peabody Ducks in the Fountain
The Peabody is probably best known around the world for a custom dating back to the 1930s. The General Manager of the time, Frank Schutt, had just returned from a weekend hunting trip in Arkansas. He and his friends found it amusing to leave their live decoy ducks in the hotel fountain. The guests loved the idea, and since then, ducks have played in the fountain every day.
In 1940, a Bellman by the name of Edward Pembroke volunteered to care for the ducks. Pembroke was given the position of "Duckmaster" and served in that position until 1991. As a former circus animal trainer, he taught the ducks to march into the hotel lobby, which started the famous Peabody Duck March. Every day at 11:00 a.m., the Peabody Ducks are escorted from their penthouse home, on the Plantation Roof, to the lobby via elevator. The ducks, accompanied by the King Cotton March by John Phillip Sousa, then proceed across a red carpet to the hotel fountain, made of a solid block of Italian travertine marble. The ducks are then ceremoniously led back to their penthouse at 5:00 p.m.
Ducks marching back to the elevators
Over the years, The Peabody Ducks have gained celebrity status with television appearances (along with their Duckmaster) on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Sesame Street, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. They have also appeared in People magazine.
The position of "Duckmaster" at the Peabody Memphis is one of only three such positions in the world, the other two being the Duckmasters in the Orlando and Little Rock Peabody Hotels. Celebrities have also assumed the role of Honorary Duckmaster from time to time, including Paula Deen, Joan Collins, Molly Ringwald, Kevin Bacon, Emeril Lagasse, Patrick Swayze, Queen Noor of Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, and Gayle King.
The custom of keeping ducks in the lobby fountain may date back even further than the 1930s. A pre-1915 postcard highlights the ducks playing in the fountain, and one source claims the custom goes back to the hotel's opening in 1869.
However, the Peabody itself claims the duck tradition to have started in 1933, as on December 3rd, 2008 they unveiled a new "Duck Palace" located on the rooftop, for the 75th anniversary of the duck tradition. The 24 by 12 foot enclosure features granite flooring, ceiling fans, a scale replica of the hotel, a fountain decorated with a pair of bronze ducks, and a large viewing window for guests to see them in their new home. The Duck Palace cost approximately 0,000 to construct.
Design features
The Peabody Hotel's most recognizable features are large red neon "The Peabody" signs atop the Skyway Ballroom and the central elevator shaft.
The top floor, the Skyway, contains a lounge/bar area, ballroom, and Plantation Roof, which offers stunning views of the surrounding Memphis skyscrapers. The rooftop is often used as a space for bands and other musical acts, especially during the Thursday night "Rooftop Parties" in the summer months.
In the elevators, one must press "S" to access the top floor. If this floor were numbered, one would press "13" to reach it, but due to superstitions regarding the number thirteen, management decided to call the top floor "the Skyway."
Facts
During the Big Band era, the Skyway was the place to be at night. The ballroom was one of only a handful of sites in America that CBS broadcast live from weekly. Regular headliners included Tommy Dorsey and the Andrews Sisters. Today, the Skyway is known throughout Memphis for its legendary Skyway Sunday Brunch with champagne served promptly at 12 noon.
Hotel floor layout
13 (S) - The Plantation Roof, Duck Palace, The Skyway Ballroom, The Penthouse (not used)
12 - The Peabody Club, The Presidential Suite, Club Level Guest Rooms
11 - Standard Guest Rooms, Junior Suites, Romeo and Juliet Suites
10 - Standard Guest Rooms, Junior Suites, Celebrity Suites
09 through 04 - Standard Guest Rooms
03 - The Peabody Executive Conference Center
02 (M) - Mezzanine Level, The Peabody Grand Ballroom, Venetian Room, Continental Ballroom, Louis XVI Room, Forest Room, Hernando DeSoto Room, The Tennessee Exhibit Hall, The Peabody Memorabilia Room, Francis Scott Key Piano, Business Center, Hotel Kitchens, Banquet Offices
01 (L) - The Grand Lobby, Chez Phillippe, Cappriccio Grill, The Lobby Bar, The Corner Bar, Peabody Deli and Desserts, The Grand Galleria of Shops, Guest Registration, Valet, Concierge, Bell Stand
LL - Lower Level (Basement), Administrative Offices, Gould's Day Spa and Salon, Peabody Athletic Club, Shoeshine Parlor, Hotel Pool
References
^ a b c d Peabody Hotel History
^ United States Census, 1870, Tennessee, Shelby Co., 4-WD Memphis, Peabody Hotel, Series: M593 Roll: 1562 Page: 147.
^ Fransioli Hotel History
^ Faragher, Scott; Katherine Harrington (2002-11-18). The Peabody Hotel. Arcadia. ISBN 0738514535.
^ Cohn, David (1935). God Shakes Creation. Harper & Brothers. and Schmidt, William E. (1986-10-05). "Memphis' Grand Hotel". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9A0DE2DC153DF936A35753C1A960948260. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
^ The Peabody Ducks
^ a b Peabody Press Release: New Duckmaster Takes the Lead at the Peabody Memphis - May 14, 2007
^ Parfitt, Ginny; Mary L. Martin (2005). Memories of Memphis: A History in Postcards. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. p. 48. ISBN 0764322885.
^ Gilding the nest: Peabody spares no expense in building a quacktacular rooftop roost - Commercial Appeal
^ Peabody Rooftop Parties Schedule
External links
Official site
Peabody Hotel Group
Interview with Assistant Duck Master
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Books In Sync Announces True Crime Author Douglas Chandler Graham
Saturday
Sep 25, 2010
Books In Sync Announces True Crime Author Douglas Chandler Graham
About the Author:
Douglas Chandler Graham grew up in rural Virginia close to Lakeside Amusement Park. He worked summers at this park from the age of twelve until he was eighteen when he joined the U.S. Army Air Force. Honorably discharged from the military, he became a street cop in Roanoke, Virginia. Over the years, he has been a bill collector, salesman, and postman. After retiring from the Postal Service, he became a certified private investigator and bodyguard. He has lived in Florida since 2000.
His first book ‘Smoke and Murders’ is a fictionalized story of the murder of the Hodges family as discovered in the small town of Vinton, Virginia, on August 29, 1994. Most of the characters are composites of people known to the author and, except for the murders; most of the situations are made up. Fascinated by the sequence of events as they unfolded, the author could not get the crime off his mind, and over the years, Smoke and Murders evolved. Urged by family and friends to finish the story, the author hopes that it will spark some interest in the real story of a man he believes was falsely convicted.
Smoke and Murders
by Douglas Chandler Graham
Book Excerpt:
Kenny had been working patrol that Saturday night when he got a call from the dispatcher to check on a disturbance at the Stoplight. The Stoplight was a large redneck bar where a lot of the local punks drank beer, shot pool, and fought, usually in that order. It was unusual to get calls there because the owner had what he called, “My own security.â€
Security was a couple of tough guys; one a Vietnam vet with mental problems that moonlighted from his regular post office job and the other just released from prison after spending fifteen years for manslaughter. He had beaten a man to death with his fist.
Both enjoyed beating up people, a fact not lost on the Stoplight clientele, unless they got too drunk to remember.
In addition to the beer joint, there were several rundown motel rooms in back. The owner, who was also the bartender, rented rooms by the need. Someone finding a compatible friend may need one for an hour or two, or someone might drink too much and realize he shouldn’t be driving, a situation much less frequent than the hourly rental, but it did happen occasionally.
This is where the problem was that Saturday night. Kenny parked the police cruiser well away from where any other car might back into it if leaving and approached the battered steel front door of the Stoplight. Before Kenny had reached the bar, the owner motioned that the problem was behind the building. He disliked cops in his bar. If there is one thing that will kill a party, it’s a cop roaming around where people are well on their way to getting drunk.
Kenny heard pig noises and “damned cop†and jokes about coming after someone, but he paid as little attention to them as he possibly could so there would be no confrontation. He could take on several of them as drunk as they were, but he wasn’t called there for that. As much fun as he thought that might be, whatever the problem was, it was in back of the building. He pushed the nasty steel front door open with his foot leaving.
Bill Kenny walked around the left side of the dirty white building. Soot spots stained the walls low where cars had backed in to park next to the building. The owner had finally put in concrete parking blocks, making a walkway. This wasn’t for the customers’ convenience; before the parking blocks had been installed, several customers had backed their cars into the building and crushed the outer layer of cinder blocks. The one dusk-to-dawn light at the entrance to the gravel lot didn’t make a lot of light. Kenny’s flashlight shined on wine bottles, beer cans, beer bottles, snack bags, and even some clothing items and a shoe before he could see the motel rooms clearly. Only one room had a light in it, so he headed for that.â€
After the third time of getting Amanda off, Adam knew he had better not push his luck for time and he turned Amanda over onto her stomach. He raised her hips until she was on her knees and elbows, her forearms and hands flat on the bed beside her head. Adam looked at the beauty of her raised curved hips. At first, he thought of going into the small brown rosebud that was higher but he needed more time to prepare her for that. She was wet with his saliva and her own slickness. He entered her without any guidance from either of them, and with a few quick thrusts, squeezed her thighs with his hands as he held his breath until he could hold it no more, and then the release, that indescribable feeling of time and space, and nothing, life or death, or heaven that is over all too quickly. Adam fell onto her body and collapsed onto the bed atop her. They both lay until their breathing became normal, saying nothing, enjoying the spent feeling of perfect sex and the closeness of another human. The window air conditioner was no match for all the activity and both glistened with sweat. Adam put his clothes on as he had taken them off. Sticking his legs in the underwear, pants and into his shoes and then got into his shirt that lay on the end of the bed. He didn’t want to meet Brad coming home and have the glow of sex, and the smell, still on him. Adam hoped Amanda would shower, but that was her problem. Both now downstairs, he kissed Amanda quickly on the lips. She was still naked with a handful of Kleenex held to her crotch, as he went out into the sweltering heat of mid-afternoon. Several blocks from the house Adam stopped at the first convenience store and bought a twelve pack of Milwaukee’s Best. He decided he had done everything he could for this day.
William Potter attempted his first novel at age eleven when he scribbled a few lines about a giant rampaging crab. The teen years kept his imagination in a state of unrest and he used poetry to journal personal thoughts, achievements and events of those times. He returned to his love of storytelling in his twenties, writing numerous short stories; and now in his forties, has completed two full-length novel manuscripts.
Lohan will serve full 30 days behind bars
Saturday
Sep 25, 2010
Lohan will serve full 30 days behind bars
Lindsay Lohan will have to serve out a full 30 days behind bars for violating probation - thanks to the terms of the sentence handed to her on Friday morning (24Sep10).
Read more on Hollywood.com
Italian Fest was mellow, but bars had fights afterward
Last weekend's Italian Fest had no more fights than usual, but the bars afterward had more than a few incidents.
Read more on Belleville News-Democrat
Closing time dangerous at Bandera bars
In a town full of bars and pubs, you are bound to have problems. But this has become a problem Bandera city officials want stopped, now. Violence at closing time has the chief of police calling in investigators from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC). In the past month, there have been several assaults, involving liquor, broken limbs and bar patrons knocked unconscious. Chief James ...
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Saturday
Sep 25, 2010
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Saturday
Sep 25, 2010
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Bottoms Up – Bartending Lesson, Skyy Citrus Cosmopolitan
Friday
Sep 24, 2010
Bartender Chris Bokelberg teaches bartending lessons in Bottoms Up. Chris and Natalie make Skyy Vodka Citrus Cosmopolitans. Bartender Chris Bokelberg teaches bartending lessons in Bottoms Up. Drink mixing, bartending and cocktail recipes made simple and easy. (more)
Bartending Tricks : How to Make a Gibson
Thursday
Sep 23, 2010
The Gibson is a mixed drink that contains gin or vodka, dry vermouth and is garnished with two cocktail onions. Create this wonderful alcoholic beverage with tips from a bartender in this free video on bartending drinks. Expert: Babz Zerillo Bio: Babz Zerillo has been bartending for more than five years. During that time Zerillo has worked at a martini lounge and at private clubs, restaurants and neighborhood bars. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
Bartending Books to Guide you Through the Maze of Alcoholic Drinks
Wednesday
Sep 22, 2010
Bartending Books to Guide you Through the Maze of Alcoholic Drinks
As with so many things in our lives there are many different books that can help us with various parts of our lives. These books can be in the form of hobbies, self help books, do-it-yourself books and a variety of other books. In this mass of books you can also find bartending books. These books can be informative, instructional and semi biographical in nature. Therefore to make the most of all of this information you should have an open mind and an idea of what you are looking for.
For the most part you will find bartending books that deal with the various drinks that are available in bars and the process that is involved with making these drinks. Of course all of these bartending books are based upon varying degrees of knowledge that each person might have. Some of these bartending books will assume that if you are looking at these books then you are absolutely new to the world of bartending.
So what you will need to do is go to the bookstore and look at the various bartending books and decide which ones will be the most helpful for you in your journey. This way you can select only the ones that will guide you through this very confusing maze of alcoholic drinks. Now as you pick and choose the various bartending books that might be of use you should look through these books.
By reading various pages and chapters in brief you can decide if the bartending books in that particular store have the information that you require. Should you decide that you can check these books out in the comfort of your home then you have the help of the internet at your disposal. From the various websites for books you will find a large amount of bartending books.
In addition to showing you the various bartending books, these web sites will give you a brief description of the information that is within these books. You will also be informed of the piece that you can buy these books. So if you are looking for bartending books you will find interesting books like Bartending for Dummies, or the Ultimate A – Z Bar Guide or even the World’s Best Simple Bar Tricks.
These bartending books are just a few of the many books that you can find to help you in your journey of bartending. So to get the most from these books you should choose the various bartending books that not only catch your eye but ones that will give you lots of practical help, advice, tips and tricks as well.
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