‘The very foundation on which this city was built’ finally renovated
The City of Memphis held a ribbon-cutting Dec. 12 to mark the end of repairs on the cobblestones along Riverside Drive. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Memphis’ historic cobblestone landing formally opened Friday after at least 19 years of bureaucracy, red tape and the rise and fall of the Mississippi River.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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