{"id":1397,"date":"2007-05-13T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2007-05-13T05:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T05:12:00","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/memphis\/end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raiford’s Hollywood<\/a> is closing. Again and again people keep saying this is the end of an era. <\/p>\n

I can’t really speak to that, as I’ve not been in Memphis long enough to talk about eras, but I do know that I regret not making it back to Raiford’s after my initial visit soon after I first moved here. (I can’t find the effing post about it, but it’s an emotional mess. That<\/i> I remember. Yikes, that first year was rough. I think I cried in the car an average of five times a day.) <\/p>\n

My interest in Raiford’s is purely selfish; it’s kitsch to me. That probably makes me sound like an asshole to those of you with pure souls. Fair enough. But that’s not to say I look down on Raiford’s. It’s just not my scene. (My scene involves my living room, a glass of wine, and a book.) I don’t drink beer and I don’t dance. (I am not, however, Baptist.) Yet it is a scene I find fascinating. So I had intended to make it back down there to take some photographs. Lucky for me, there are photos on Flickr here<\/a>. Because I won’t get that chance to take my own now that I procrastinated so long. <\/p>\n

If you never got the chance to make it out to Raiford’s, here’s what you missed: Acrylic floor tiles, smoke machines, a mix of college-age Greeks and middle-aged exhibitionists, white leather couches, feathers, glitter, stripper poles, pimp-suited door greeters, outlandish cover charges, 40s and plastic cups, disco lights, and hilarious voiceovers by the man himself: <\/p>\n

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A little nugget of Memphis culture has just been buried.<\/p>\n

SUPER-SONIC INSTANT UPDATE:<\/b> And where else but Raiford’s could you make this kind<\/a> of hottt missed connection? (Sorry, I’m kind of obsessed with the Memphis Craigslist personals lately; they are so unbelievably awesome. That is, if you wait months between checking them, so there are plenty to read. Otherwise it’s slim pickins.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Raiford’s Hollywood is closing. Again and again people keep saying this is the end of an era. I can’t really speak to that, as I’ve not been in Memphis long enough to talk about eras, but I do know that I regret not making it back to Raiford’s after my initial visit soon after I first moved here. (I can’t find the effing post about it, but it’s an emotional mess. That I remember. Yikes,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memphis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-mx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}