Memphis City Tour with Jimmy Ogle, Blues City Café & Cotton Museum
Optional Tour
This tour is optional and offered to guests not attending the General Session of the Conference. If you choose to attend this tour, the cost will be billed back to the appropriate Bank under the name of the guest who registered for the tour.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Estimated Cost of Tour per person $45.
8:40 AM Motorcoaches available for boarding from Peabody Hotel Lobby (Union Ave.)
9:00 AM Motorcoach departs Peabody Hotel on
driving tour with Jimmy Ogle
11:00 AM Motorcoach arrives at Blue’s City Café,
11:30 AM Lunch is served
12:30 PM Guest depart Blue’s City Café for Memphis
Cotton Museum
12:40 PM Guests arrive at Memphis Cotton Museum
12:45 PM Memphis Cotton Museum tour begins
1:45 PM Guests depart for the Peabody Hotel
2:00 PM Guests arrives at the Peabody Hotel
End of Tour

Services Include:

  • Luxury Motorcoach
  • Tour Escort
  • Lunch at Blues City Café
  • Memphis Cotton Museum Tour Tickets
  • All applicable taxes
    and gratuities
Guests will board the Motorcoach for a driving tour of Downtown Memphis hosted by Mr. Jimmy Ogle. Once his historic Memphis mode gets going, Jimmy Ogle’s commentary takes off in a seemingly inexhaustible monologue of local facts, tidbits and trivia. He can talk about the street widening ordinance of 1922 that shaved seven feet off Downtown buildings like the Front Street Deli. Or that the building that houses the Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau is the oldest commercial building in the city. The driving tour will be directed by Jimmy and will include highlights such as St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, National Civil Rights Museum, The Historic Front Street and Riverside Drive Areas, Mud Island and much more.

After your driving tour it is time to enjoy a Memphis gem. Blues City Cafe opened in March of 1991 under the name of “Doe’s Eat Place”. Doe’s was originated in Greenville Mississippi by owners Charles and Dominic (Doe) Signa. Ribs became the focal point, as they are today, and other items were added over the years, such as steaks, catfish and tamales. In October of 1993, investors bought Doe’s and changed the name to Blues City Cafe. Many of the same faces that were with Doe’s in the early 90’s remain at Blues City Cafe today.

The friendly staff and world famous menu has drawn the attention of
presidents and celebrities alike. Line Cooks man the line at this restaurant, famous for its BBQ. Blues City also features nightly live entertainment in The Band Box. Located on the corner of Second and Beale, Blues City Café offers a diner feel with a Delta juke joint experience.

Seated lunch will consist of:
Entrée of Southern Fried
Chicken Tenderloin
Steak Fries or New Potatoes
Salad
Ice Tea or Soda
Apple Cobbler with Carmel Drizzle

After lunch, a short bus ride will take you to the Memphis Cotton
Museum. Though Front Street’s ‘King Cotton’ culture is no longer in
its heyday, its influence remains… in the technological advances that changed the soul of the South… in the birth of blues and jazz and rock and roll… in the migration of millions of blacks and poor whites that changed northern cities forever… and in the work of countless writers, artists, photographers and cultural chroniclers around the world.