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McLemore Avenue runs in front of Stax's former studio/present museum.Southern Avenue kinda sorta runs into McLemore---Memphis' main thoroughfares are mostly based on old cattle trails, and so, unlike in geometry class, parallel lines often intersect. So it is with McLemore and Southern.
Southern Avenue is an east-west thoroughfare that runs from the hood out to the University of Memphis and on to tonier enclaves, and is thus kind of a conduit between the still-separate cultures of Memphis.It runs parallel to railroad lines which create major interruptions in north-south traffic, even in this day and age.
I lived within a block of Southern on two occasions during my 25 years in Meffis.