Smokestack first to vanish as Nylon Net demolition starts
The top of the Nylon Net Building’s smokestack is now a brick rubble at the base of the building. (Tom Bailey/Daily Memphian)
Demolition has started on Downtown’s historic Nylon Net Building, 7 Vance, where a new apartment building will rise.
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Tom Bailey
Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.