25 years ago — 2001
Say the name "Lucy," and there probably isn't an American alive who doesn't know who you're talking about. Everybody has seen I Love Lucy, everybody has favorite episodes, and everybody recalls them with a grin or an outright laugh. At 8 p.m. Monday, precisely 50 years to the minute that I Love Lucy premiered, TV Land will begin a 40-episode Lucy marathon, beginning with the first episode audiences saw in 1951.
50 years ago — 1976
The third production in Playhouse on the Square's season, the free-wheeling musicalization of Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" Nov. 19-Dec. 19, will have as guest director Christopher Cox, a young Alabaman turned New Yorker. Cox, who grew up in Gadsden, Ala., is a theater graduate of the University
of Alabama, and he indicates his staging of "Two Gentlemen" may not be oblivious to his Dixie background. "The show will adapt well to a Southern setting," he said.
75 years ago — 1951
WASHINGTON ‒ The Bureau of Employment Security of the Department of Labor announced Friday that it has approved the lease-purchase agreement executed by the State of Tennessee for the Memorial Apartment Hotel. Disclosure of the approval of the controversial lease-purchase agreement came in the form of a forma announcement from Robert C. Goodwin, director of the bureau.
100 years ago — 1926
Directed by their skilled leader, Señor Maestro Briceno, the Mexican Tipica Orchestra of 38 members will descend on Memphis Saturday night to treat Memphis music lovers at the Auditorium. Señor Felix Gonzales, descendant of a long line of musicians in Mexico City, will make his first appearance outside of the republic Saturday night. He will appear in a violin solo and in what Mexico is called premier violin in the orchestra. This will be the first appearance of the orchestra in Memphis.
From the Archives of the CA: Mempo Music Festival closes with Ziggy Marley
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This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: What was happening in Memphis history on Oct. 13? A look back through the years
