{"id":1588,"date":"2007-08-21T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2007-08-21T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T01:04:00","slug":"day-232-%e2%80%94-andertons-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/project-365\/day-232-%e2%80%94-andertons-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 232 \u2014 Anderton’s East"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"anderton's<\/a><\/p>\n

Anderton’s used to be a Memphis institution, from what I’ve been told, but it closed down a year or two ago. I never got to eat there, sadly. <\/p>\n

A man stopped me as I was taking photos today and wanted to be sure I took notice of the sign that proclaimed this particular location Anderton’s East<\/i>. He explained that it was built as the eastern counterpart to the downtown Anderton’s. He described a typical day at Anderton’s downtown in the ’40s \u2014 blue-collar workers in hats sitting around a hot dining room eating fish \u2014 and said it was such a big deal when they opened the Madison location. <\/p>\n

I love this building. It’s this weird seafoam green color (reminds me of the hallways of Saltillo Elementary), and it’s got all these neat art-deco flourishes plus some thin mid-century brickwork (I don’t know what it’s called \u2014 it’s the thin slabs of rock … shale?) that reminds me of … some other building from my childhood that has slipped my mind. I dread the day they tear this place down.<\/p>\n

It’s hard for me to imagine my neighborhood as the outskirts or suburbs of Memphis, but it was. Now that it’s Midtown, we tend to think of it as smack in the middle of everything, which it really is, which I love. But to think that it was the equivalent of East Memphis several decades ago is really odd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anderton’s used to be a Memphis institution, from what I’ve been told, but it closed down a year or two ago. I never got to eat there, sadly. A man stopped me as I was taking photos today and wanted to be sure I took notice of the sign that proclaimed this particular location Anderton’s East. He explained that it was built as the eastern counterpart to the downtown Anderton’s. He described a typical day… <\/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":[10,156,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memphis","category-midtown","category-project-365"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-pC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","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=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}