loading image
Arhoolie Records’ subsidiary label Blues Classics was the first to reintroduce the work of Memphis Minnie (1897–1973) to a new (and largely white) audience. A highly influential blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Minnie was born in Louisiana. Her family moved to Walls, Mississippi; the singer ran away to nearby Memphis in her early teens and got her start playing the guitar for tips on city streets. The tough, street-smart Minnie enjoyed a successful career performing and recording for various blues labels beginning in the 1920s and continuing well into the 1950s. Memphis Minnie received royalties of fifty cents a record for each of the Blues Classics albums of hers that sold. In this letter that Memphis Minnie wrote to Chris Strachwitz, she asks him to send her one of the recordings as a keepsake and tells him, “I would like to hear myself all over again.” She also expresses her disappointment that Strachwitz was unable to include “Bumble Bee” because that was her favorite song and her first “hit.” "Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. http://bit.ly/StoryofArhoolie
This image was posted on March 12, 2019.
Similar Instagram posts
Olive Ann Beech (née Mellor) was born in Kansas in 1903.
This image was posted on March 30, 2022.
#avgeek #womeninaviation #beechcraft #beech #womenshistorymonth #aviationhistory
This image was posted on October 14, 2015.
#womeninthenfl
#Onthisday in 1935, Amelia Earhart departed from Honolulu, HI bound for Oakland, CA.
This image was posted on January 11, 2022.
#ameliaearhart #avgeek #avatrix #womeninaviation #aviationhistory
#Onthisday in 1903, Olive Ann Beech (née Mellor) was born in Kansas.
This image was posted on September 25, 2019.
#avgeek #womeninaviation #beechcraft #beech #womeninhistory
Olive Ann Beech (née Mellor) (1903 –1993) was born in Kansas in 1903.
This image was posted on September 25, 2023.
Hollywood fashion designer Howard Greer (1896–1974) created this fitted suit in light blue wool gabardine for TWA (Trans World Airlines) in 1944.
This image was posted on November 09, 2018.
#howardgreer #twa #hollywood #fashiondesign #fashion #satin #idastaggers #uniform #flightattendant
This post mentions the following things involved with the SFO Museum collection:
Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records
This nonaviation exhibition was on display between September 2018 and June 2019 in the 2A Boomerang Gallery gallery, located in Terminal 2