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Ask Vance is the blog of Vance Lauderdale, the award-winning columnist of Memphis magazine and MBQ: Inside Memphis Business.  Vance is the author of two books: Ask Vance: The Best Questions and Answers from Memphis Magazine's History and Trivia Expert (2003), as well as Ask Vance: More Questions and Answers from Memphis Magazine's History Expert (2011). He is also the recipient of quite a few nice awards, the creator of several eye-catching wall calendars, and the only person we know with a vintage shock-treatment machine in his den. 

You can find him from time to time in the pages of the Memphis Flyer and MBQ, on WKNO television, and on Facebook.  When he is not exploring the highways and byways of Memphis, he spends his time sleeping, napping, and dozing.

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Recent Posts

• Another Mystery Photo: A Humble Cabin, Its Owner, and a Visitor — Who and Where? | Comments
• The 1963 Millington Plane Crash - A Resident Speaks About That Night | Comments
• An Interesting Baptist Hospital Ad After the Russwood Park Fire | Comments
• Where Is This Mystery Memphis Restaurant? Hello? Anyone? | Comments: 5
• Remembering Marjorie Duckett and Her School of Dance | Comments: 1
• Another, Earlier View of the Filler Burger Drive-In | Comments
• Does Anybody Remember Frayser's Filler-Burger Drive-In? | Comments: 10
• Vance Is Stumped! Where in Memphis Was This Miniature Bowling Alley? | Comments: 4
• More Photos of the 1960 Russwood Park Fire | Comments
• The Electric Waffle Shop — Then and Now | Comments: 1

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