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Stax Records

Name: Stax Records
Start: 1957-01-01
Location: 926 East McLemore Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, United States

926 East McLemore Avenue · Memphis, Tennessee, United States · 1957-01-01

A former cinema on McLemore Avenue where an integrated house band cut the records that defined southern soul.

The record

Date	1957-01-01
Place	926 East McLemore Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Coordinates	35.133, -90.057 (landmark-level precision)
Scope	Local interest
Sources	Wikipedia
Added	2026-08-14 · source: editors

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Time layers at this place

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Balcony of the Lorraine Motel

1968

assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

1968

LeMoyne–Owen College

1971

Beale Street Baptist Church

1929 — Sterick Building
1936 — New Daisy Theatre
1949 — Clayborn Temple
1954 — Elvis records at Sun
1957 — Stax Records this page
1968 — Balcony of the Lorraine Motel
1968 — assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1968 — LeMoyne–Owen College
1971 — Beale Street Baptist Church
2001 — Peabody Place
2003 — FedExForum
2005 — KookyCanuck
2008 — Toof Building

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