Kix on Beale

Last Thursday I went to Kix on Beale with Kelly.  Every Thursday night Kix 106, a local radio station, puts on a free concert on Beale Street's Handy Park.  Last Thursday Heidi Newfield preformed.  It was a great concert but not a great crowd.  A large portion of the people there were smoking and almost all of them were drinking.  By the time Heidi had finished her set Kelly and I were ready to go.  We didn't stay around for the other performer and went and got ice cream instead.  It had been a long day.   

     Earlier that day Josh dropped us off downtown on his way to work.  We had to find stuff to do before the concert so we went to the oldest store on Beale Street called A. Schwab's.   It was built in 1897 and was suppose to be really cool with old nickel candy and a museum upstairs.  The store was in bad shape.  It could have been really cool but was really ghetto.  There was stuff everywhere.  It felt kind of like a dollar store and stunk really bad.  We went up stairs to see the museum and it was a small little room with stuff just piled in it.  There was a hand written sign that said

"Look and touch but items not for sale."  The items had definitely been touched.  There were old cash registers, type writers, old billing records that were falling apart, antique glass bottles, clothes, etc.  The stuff was really cool but was  getting destroyed because everyone was allowed to touch everything.  After being a little depressed about the whole thing we thought at least we can buy some old fashion candy.  Well they didn't even have that.  We left feeling really sorry for the store and went to find something else to do.  

     We went to the Peabody Hotel to see the famous Peabody Ducks.  These ducks are trained to march on a red carpet from their "Pent House" on top of the building down the elevator to the lobby and to the fountain in the center of the lobby every day at 11:00 am.  At 5:00 pm. the whole process is reversed.  It was really cute.    

After we went to the Peabody we got something to eat ad then wen to the concert.  It was a long day but we had a good time.