Midtown’s Fantastic Fans is closing, but the Fan Doctor will make house calls
Fantastic Fans owner Art Jones on Monday, May 19, 2025. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
For 45 years, Art Jones has watched as ceiling fans’ popularity has come around again and again.
But he’ll close his last Fantastic Fans store, located on Union Avenue with a clown on the sign and a ceiling fan hanging over the sidewalk, for good in July. Jones, the owner of the store and the building, plans to bulldoze the structure and sell the land.
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Nick Lingerfelt
Nick Lingerfelt has written for Focus Mid-South Magazine, StyleBlueprint, Salon and At Home Memphis & Mid South. When he was a student at the University of Memphis, he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Helmsman, the school’s student newspaper.
Also while a student at the U of M, he received the Otis Sanford Outstanding Journalism Student award and the 2nd Place Marc Perrusquia Investigative Journalism Award for a story about the demographic makeup of the school’s sports teams.
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